First News: Recent Episodes
KRCB News Team
A weekday early morning podcast that offers a first look at the top local news stories and weather forecast you need to start your day. Sonoma County news stories featuring the latest in breaking news, county government, elections, environment, cultural h
Hot days prompt Spare-The-Air alerts | Fall fire outlook | Elsie Allen student stabbing | Vacation Beach dam failure | Juvenile records sealed automatically | School cell-phone ban
Deadly Highway 12 crash | Latine health data | Cal Fire's new plane | Santa Rosa CESA picket lines | Klamath dams no more
All electric appliance requirements on hold | Help for undocumented home buyers | Tiny home bill passes legislature | Sonoma County well ordinance on hold
Downtown RP developer | PGE town hall | Smart phones in schools | Small biz rents | Balancing AI regulation in tech and labor | Klamath dam removals
New Cotati housing | Quakeproofing RP water supplies | Santa Rosa homelessness prevention | Healdsburg's new hotel and more affordable housing | Traffic study around Graton casino expansion | Russian River Redwoods to get new owner |
Warming trend this week | America Fire in Napa | Koi Nation react to Newsom | SR Marathon winner | Monte Rio Theater reborn | Free fishing day
New tenant protections | Vintage Wine sell-off | New rules re: SSU protests | Petaluma traffic diverter | Sarris on gov letter re: Koi casino plan | Santa Rosa DUI checkpoint
Graton tribe thanks governor's office for letter objecting to Koi Nation's Shiloh Resort | New fast food jobs | White sharks move into Monterey Bay
Cooling trend | Windsor finalizes Koi casino opposition | Marin crop report | Housing bond local reactions | SMART ridership | CA delegation to the DNC
Windsor APLRs | SMART bicycles | Cap Radio woes | No on J kickoff event | Racism in hospitals | Saving salmon
Red Cross blood shortage | Santa Rosa firefighter's contract | New West County park | New rent protections | Mobile crisis team funding | CA digital ID cards
PG&E compliance discrepancies | Suspense file follow up | Homekey dollars for Sebastopol | School housing proposal | Windsor citizens respond to Koi casino proposal
$20 billion housing bond yanked from ballot | Guerneville improvements | Sebastopol homeless | Windsor responds to Koi EIS | Cloverdale RV regulation | Economic Development Collaborative |
Queenstone fire arrest | Measure W library funding | More RP pickleball courts | Come Over October | Mendocino wine competition
FAFSA delayed | SoCo equity strategy | More secure voting | Measure I rebuttal | SoCo Carbon neutral investment | Santa Rosa TOT | SR Fire training burns
Santa Rosa City Council candidate deadline extension | Calistoga microgrid | Buckelew bikers | Environmental Working Group report on CAFOs | California crime stats | Humpbacks in SF bay
Governor Newsom encourages homeless sweeps | PG&E says it's doping better | Pickleball | Sebastopol budget drama | Measure I - Part 1
Sonoma seeks new city sales tax | A popular herbicide gets banned | SF to forgive first responder student debt | Clear Lake symposium | Athena House reborn
CA legislators return from Summer break | HUD audit of homelessness funds | Massive bump in building fees sparks historic outrage in Santa Rosa | Sac State releases audit of Cap Radio funds
Santa Rosa hotel tax | Mobile home park owners face fees | Petaluma homeless update | Apprenticeship programs | Greg Sarris pt.2 interview
No Russian River Logging | Measure J could cost County millions | Park Fire threatens salmon runs | Election deadlines
Fisheries get grant money | Santa Rosa traffic study to go before Council | Hearn Avenue overpass demolition | Maxwell Park gets refresh | Genealogy workshop | Adding hydrogen to gas lines
Wildfire smoke bill advances | Calistoga police crash injures pedestrian | Rohnert Park tire thefts | Toxic mussels warning | medical "ghost directories" | Healdsburg's Measure O
Greg Sarris responds to Koi casino/resort plans | Pharmacy deserts | Pedro fire brings smoke to area
New deal for FAIR plan customers | Prop 22 upheld | Vintage Wine Estates bankruptcy | CA tribes to get $20 million to combat indigenous human trafficking | Study links wildfire smoke to dementia |
New Cloverdale bridge | Tibbetts reaction to Governor's order | Park Fire smoke | CA fracking ban | Penngrove traffic
Homeless encampments | Gig workers | Grange Fire | Flora Fire arrest | SSU President | Climate 2-way
Flora Fire | St. Vincent DePaul to take over homeless shelter operations for County | New CA heat rules | Kids rules for social media | Huffman part 2 | Mendocino vigilante justice
CA Dems endorse Harris | Newsom hopes dashed | Cloverdale cold case arrest | Sonoma rally against Project 2025 | Huffman speaks about Project 2025
California Forever is just not for now | SoCo Regional Parks expansion | Highway 37 bridge improvements | Highway 12 sidewalks for Boyes Hot Springs | Graton Rancheria land expansion | CPUC looking for PSPS input from public
Bay Area reaction to Biden announcement | Women's increasing importance in politics | Kamala Harris bio | RPDPS telephone scam | Local COVID update | Minna Stess heads to the Olympic Games in Paris | Wine Country half-marathon has first woman winner
Heat and air quality advisories today | How safe are shelters? | Santa Rosa salon fire causes $200,000 damage | Sonoma city tax on ballot | Sebastopol sends sales tax to ballot | Sea Ranch mock-evacuation
Heatwave boomerang | Windsor regulates food trucks | City of Sonoma sales tax | Voting behind the scenes | California shelter reports | Measure Q | Rivertown Revival brings road closures
County park rangers lose peace officer status | First wildfire death of 2024 | Sebastopol tax poll | Measure J opposition | X moving to Texas
Regulating AI use in hiring | Sonoma Country park ranger reclassification | Measure J concerns | Youth mental health self-help | Gay wine weekend coming
Public review requested for KOI Casino in Windsor | More transit money for California agencies | School bond measures roundup | Paratransit receives federal funding | Sonoma County foster youth get in-patient mental health care