Konocti: A Last Resort For People Hit With Disaster, A Second Chance After Two Decades of Anxiety, Finding Self-Esteem…Through Pole Dancing, Poet Re-Examines his Farmworker Past, The Town That Changed Its Name to Happy Camp

Oakland’s Time-Travelling Map, The Secret World of Inez Burns, Japanese-American 1950s Car Clubs, A Firefighter on Witnessing Too Much Tragedy

A Cemetery of Life Saving Secrets on Point Reyes, How California’s Rice Fields Are Welcoming Back the Birds, Couples Counselors Get Real About Their Own Marriages, The Sodden Story Behind Whiskeytown, CA.

Throughout 2017, a team of Snap Judgment producers - together with Oakland activists and parents - learned about Oakland’s homicide victims, their families and communities.

College hopefuls leaving California, a taste of home for South Asian seniors, when a job becomes a friendship, A Place Called 'Peanut'

Modern-day Gold Miner Still Finds Plenty, A Visit to Paradise (CA), How CA Went from Anti-Immigrant to ‘Sanctuary State,’ Birdsong Clues to Climate Change

A special half-hour investigation based on 911 tape + interviews with first responders and survivors of the Oct. 2016 Northern CA wildfires. A collaboration with Reveal.

Taxi Drivers Losing Their Identity, Queer Skateboarders Confront Macho Culture, A Teen Loner Turns into a Celebrated Mapmaker of California's Wilderness

On This Ice Skating Team There Are No Olympians and No One Under 25, The Lowly Seagrass That Could Save Your Oysters From Climate Change, Timbuctoo: The Ghost of a Ghost Town, Sacramento Finds and Celebrates Itself in New ‘Lady Bird’ Walking Tour,

When Italians in California were "enemy aliens," Black Panther: the Movie vs the Movement, The Body is Not an Apology, Life as a Stay-At-Home Dad

No One Under 60 Allowed at This LA Dance Party, Singing Gondoliers, Facing Violence and Isolation as a CA Deportee in El Salvador, Lasting Health Effects of Sexual Harassment, Chinese History in Fiddletown

Being in DACA Limbo, A Musician on Love and Loss, Conserving Water With GMO Beer, Seeking Help for Post-Partum Depression, A Town Named For Coal

Kids and Medical Cannabis, Grammy Nods for Young Composer, Moringa Mania, A Song Springs From Tragedy, Berkeley Perfume Museum

A Janitor Fights Back, Songwriter In a Cage, White Awake, Brothers Vie For Superbowl Spot

A Ride with a Rapper, The Curse of Bodie, From Ashes to Ashes, #MeToo Sparks A Former Abuser to Speak Up, A Town Called You Bet

As we head into 2018, we feature stories from our 'Start the Conversation' series, about people bridging divides despite their differences.

Refugee Café, Viet Nguyen on why Refugees are Threatening. Holocaust Survivor’s Roommate? The Granddaughter of Nazis, Syrian Family Puts Down Roots in Oakland

Elaborate Christmas Display by a Non-Christian, Giving Back With a Tamalada, Turning Up the Politics by Turning Off the Amps

Public Art You Can’t Avoid Seeing, They Went from Immigrants to 'Burrito Royalty,' #USToo: Assault in the Jehovah’s Witness Church, Tiny Bookstore With Big Appetite for Old Cookbooks.

Controversial Discipline Practices, School for Autistic Kids Post-Wildfire, A Teacher’s #MeToo Story, Sphinx Buried in Sand Dunes

Helping the Homeless, By Living With them, A Reporter and A Politician Share Loss, Giant Tree Stump Takes the Opera Stage, Bumpass Hell

My 'Family-Esque' You know the saying, “You can’t choose your family but you can choose your friends?” Well, for Bianca Taylor, her friends have become her family, literally. She tells us how her unconventional family was transformed by an unexpected ...

A Human Library, 'California Typewriter,' an Ode to Analogue, Placido Domingo’s 50-Year Run in L.A., Winery Faces Life After Fire, A Visit to Volcano, Calif.

From Aptos, California to ZZYZX (Population 1), it's a weekly California road trip for your ears, and your imagination. - Cattle ranching moms. Homeless college students. Young mariachis. They’re all Californians, and we’ve got their stories.

Meet Flipper’s Ted Falconi, Vietnam Vet and Punk Rock Legend Flipper may not be the best-known band from Oakland, but after more than 40 years, it’s definitely one of punk’s most influential. It has inspired scores of musicians like Kurt Cobain and Mo...