California’s Opioid Crisis, Iran Nuclear Deal, Archer
Marin County announced it will sue a dozen pharmaceutical companies for aggressively marketing highly addictive opioid medications.
View ArticleTidal Wetlands Could Enclose Novato’s Deer Island Once Again
A wetland restoration project in Marin County could help a former island live up to its name.
View ArticleMarin Fire Update: Crews Close to Full Containment of Mountainside Blaze
Fire on Barnabe Mountain, northwest of Lagunitas and on the edge of Samuel P. Taylor State Park, scorches 152 acres and causes air-quality advisory across North Bay.
View ArticleFire Chief: Downed PG&E Power Line Caused Marin County’s Irving Fire
Full containment of 152-acre blaze near Lagunitas is expected by the weekend.
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Suspect in Custody After Shooting at San Rafael Detox Center Leaves 1 Dead, 2...
Updated Monday, 5:05 p.m. A suspect was in custody and being interviewed by Marin County Sheriff’s detectives Monday afternoon after one person was killed and two were injured in an early-morning...
View ArticleState Launches Probe Into 100,000-Gallon Marin County Sewage Spill
California water quality regulators are investigating an incident in San Anselmo on Sunday that caused at least 100,000 gallons of raw sewage to spill out of manholes in the city. The spill took place...
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Marin Reports Big Drop in Chronic Homelessness
Marin County officials have announced a nearly 30% drop in the county’s chronic homeless population in the last two years. additional homelessness coverage Citing preliminary data from January’s...
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Marin District Agrees to Desegregate Struggling School in Settlement With State
A school district in one of California’s wealthiest and most politically liberal counties has agreed to desegregate a struggling school that state officials found had been intentionally created for...
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Marin County Sued in Fight Over Protecting Endangered Coho Salmon
Two conservation nonprofits are suing Marin County for allegedly violating the California environmental law. The lawsuit, filed by the Center for Biological Diversity and the Salmon Protection and...
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Sketches From a Kincade Fire Evacuation Center
On Monday I spent some time sketching what it was like inside the evacuation center operated by the Red Cross at the Marin County fairgrounds. People in the evacuation zone for Sonoma County’s Kincade...
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Marin Woman Dies of Vaping-Related Illness in First Recorded Bay Area...
A previously healthy Marin County woman in her 40s who started vaping six months ago has died, county officials announced Wednesday. “With sadness, we report that there has been a death in our...
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Lone Federally Approved Bay Area Slaughterhouse Shuts Its Doors to Private...
Marin County ranchers pride themselves on raising their animals from farm to fork. But some say that might get a little harder now with Marin Sun Farms shutting its slaughterhouse to private label...
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Voters Reject SMART Train Sales Tax Extension in Sonoma and Marin
The long-term future of the North Bay’s ambitious SMART train system has been thrown into doubt after the resounding defeat of a sales tax measure that would have extended the service’s funding for 30...
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A Sausalito School Reopened During the Pandemic. Here’s What They Learned
Every day that Kim Lewis headed out the door to her job at a nursing home in San Rafael, she left her husband, Robert Lewis, to keep track of their first- and third-graders’ homeschooling, while he...
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In Health-Conscious Marin County, Virus Runs Rampant Among Latino Essential...
On a warm evening in late June, people flocked to alfresco tables set up along San Rafael’s main drag to sip sauvignon blanc and eat wood-oven pizza for Dining Under the Lights, an event to welcome...
View ArticleBlack-Owned Store in Marin County Threatened in Online Post
The Tiburon Police Department in Marin County is investigating an election-related threat made against a Black-owned clothing store known as YEMA. The threat was posted on Instagram by a now-deleted...
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Police Search for Man Filmed Vandalizing Novato Homeless Encampment
Novato police on Monday said they are looking for a man who was caught on video vandalizing tents in a homeless encampment on Jan. 3. The unidentified man appears to slice through the fabric of two...
View Article‘All Eyes Should Be on Marin’: A Racial Reckoning in the Bay’s Whitest County
Mill Valley in Marin County is one of the 10 most segregated cities in the Bay Area. During the rise of protests following George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis last year, Mill Valley Mayor Sashi McEntee...
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Following Stockton’s Lead, Guaranteed Income Programs to Launch in Oakland...
Oakland and Marin County this Tuesday became the latest jurisdictions in California to launch a guaranteed income program for hundreds of low-income residents, joining a growing progressive movement...
View ArticleOakland and Marin County Are Starting ‘Guaranteed Income’ Pilot Projects
Oakland and Marin County are the latest California jurisdictions to announce plans to launch guaranteed income pilot programs. The idea is to give money to hundreds of low-income residents of color,...
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California Counties a Hodgepodge of Highs and Lows in Vaccinating Vulnerable...
Even as California prepares to expand vaccine eligibility on April 15 to all residents 16 and older, the state has managed to inoculate only about half its senior population — the 65-and-older target...
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California, Bay Area Counties Pause Use of Johnson & Johnson Vaccine...
California state officials directed counties and other providers on Tuesday to pause use of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine as recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the...
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Marin County School District Issues ‘Corrective Action’ Against Parents Who...
In Marin County, a couple knowingly sent their COVID-19-positive child and a sibling to school last month in violation of isolation and quarantine rules, causing a coronavirus outbreak in an elementary...
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Detention for Parents
The Marin County couple who knowingly sent their child to school with COVID in Corte Madera were issued a “corrective action” by the school district. The superintendent of the Larkspur-Corte Madera...
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These Bay Area Counties Are Exempt From Some of California’s New Indoor Mask...
Confused? You’re not alone! In a sudden, surprise move that’s left thousands of residents uncertain of how to show their faces, California is now exempting San Francisco and a handful of other Bay Area...
View ArticleCOVID-19 | Judge LaDoris Cordell | This Week in California
COVID-19 Update This week, California logged 7 million cases of the coronavirus since the beginning of the pandemic – adding 1 million cases in just one week. Still, there are signs that the omicron...
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California Moves to Dismantle Death Row at San Quentin
Gov. Gavin Newsom, who three years ago placed a moratorium on executions, now is moving to dismantle the United States’ largest death row by moving all condemned inmates to other prisons within two...
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The Bay Area Roots of a Neo-Nazi Propaganda Group
This story was produced in partnership with inewsource, a nonprofit news organization in San Diego. It is part of an ongoing project with inewsource and other NPR stations to chronicle the extent of...
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How a Coast Miwok Group Is Buying Back a Piece of Their Ancestral Land in Marin
When Joe Sanchez was 8 years old, his grandmother asked him to make a promise to never forget his California Indian heritage. She was determined to see the culture live on, after watching her brothers...
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A Child Care Center’s Possible Closure Shows Dire Shortage in Marin County
As a social worker connecting residents to public assistance programs in Marin County, Amy Gramajo frequently helps families apply for free or low-cost child care. Those families typically qualify for...
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