Jordan Karnes
ReporterJordan Karnes (they/them) is a reporter and producer who works in the intersection of sports, identity, and culture. They are an alum of KALW's 2025 Audio Academy as well as the Chair of the Literary Arts Department at Oakland School for the Arts.
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San Jose announced on Tuesday that in December it will be debuting California’s first Professional Women’s Hockey League team. However, fans of the league are complaining that it’s been hard to follow, since major sports apps like Bleacher Report and ESPN rarely platform women’s sports. -
CrosscurrentsFootball is the most popular sport in America. But, that love doesn’t necessarily extend to athletes who aren’t cisgender men. And old, out-dated attitudes about who can (and should) play football, aren’t stopping athletes from making their mark on the sport. At Oakland’s Laney College, there’s a storm brewing… The Golden State Storm to be exact! It’s the newest women’s tackle football team in the Women's National Football Conference. Kris Grimes is the team's star running back. They moved to the Bay Area this year for a chance to help the Storm build a competitive team. -
CrosscurrentsLate last year, the beloved Oakland queer bar Friends and Family announced the news that it was closing. Their community was so upset, devoted customers even threw the bar a funeral. Their closure left many wondering why it seems so hard for the few bars that serve lesbian and queer people in the Bay Area to survive. It turns out, according to one queer sociologist, that there's actually a magic formula that queer bars need to succeed. -
Oakland’s first professional women’s tackle football team, the Golden State Storm, played their inaugural game against the San Diego Rebellion at Laney College on Saturday night. -
A crowd gathered outside SFPD’s headquarters today to protest the department’s presence during ICE’s arrest of a woman and her daughter at SFO on Sunday. -
Thousands of people came out for Olympic figure skater Alysa Liu’s star-studded celebratory return to Oakland on Thursday. -
Because of a new federal rule, 13,000 truck drivers in California lost their licenses last week. -
San Francisco Superior Court clerks started striking today. -
On Tuesday, the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a plan to create 200 new jobs. -
An LA-based health care tech company that’s using AI to treat unhoused patients is coming to the Bay Area. KALW’s Jordan Karnes has more.
