The Berkeley City Manager initiated a citywide hiring freeze earlier this week in order to help address a budget deficit heading into the next fiscal year.

The director of San Francisco’s Department on the Status of Women was ordered to leave her post last night.

Vietnamese writers reflect on the end of the war and discuss "The Cleaving, Vietnamese Writers in the Diaspora," a new book of conversations with over 30 writers.

On the final Friday of every month, KALW hands the mic over to you, our listeners, for an open mic night at our live event space in Downtown San Francisco. Today, we bring you an original song from Yolanda Cazessus.

Today is Bucket List Day!

This week, the Environmental Protection Agency, OR EPA, said it is shuttering environmental justice offices and laying off hundreds of employees. On Tuesday, around 100 EPA employees and union representatives gathered in San Francisco to rally for the agency and its workers. KALW’s Mary Catherine O’Connor has more.

This week, the American Lung Association or ALA released their 26th “State of Air Quality” report. The Bay Area received low marks.

QUEER POWER HOUR is honored to be the only public radio station in the country to air a new, 12-part series from Making Gay History about the overlooked history of Nazi persecution of LGBTQ people in the lead up to World War II and during the Holocaust.

On today’s show: we hear from a filmmaker who made a documentary about living with dwarfism, then musicians and poets will celebrate the late Paul Robeson, and a film questions if technology and money should outweigh the arts and people.

The Concord City Council officially altered its residential tenant protection law last night with the required second reading of the updated ordinance and another vote on its implementation.