• On this inaugural Local News Day, your community radio newsroom speaks to two local high schoolers about their effort to bring local news back to their Grass Valley campus. The goal of Local News Day - connect people with trusted, local newsrooms that serve their communities. Ada, a freshman at Nevada Union High School, and Tori, a sophomore, are setting out to do just that.

• In recognition of National Public Health Week, KVMR News brings you a look at Nevada County’s Public Health Department. We hear from Community Health Analyst Shannon Harney about extensive efforts to expand the county’s oral health program.
  For more information about the free oral health program or to register for a spot of the clinic, adults with active Medi-Cal can call: (530) 265-1450 or email Shannon.Harney@nevadacountyca.gov

• According to the 2026 T.R.U.T.H. presentation, only 18 of the total 2,916 local jail bookings involved ICE in some way.

• NID's proposed rate increase will help pay for the Scotts Flat Reservoir spillway replacement. Learn more about the rate increase on NID's water rates page.
• For Public Health Week KVMR News checked in with Nevada County Community Health Analyst Shannon Harney.

• NID hydrologists say the historic heat has sharply reduced this year's snowpack. The district's snowpack typically reaches its seasonal peak in late March or early April but the recent snow survey measured just 15 percent of average for this time of year.

• NASA successfully launched the Artemis II mission on Wednesday. KVMR Broadcaster and Science educator Al Stahler discusses the historic event with Cláudio Mendonça.

The 16 bed facility will cost around $23,000,000 and will be located behind the Wayne Brown Correctional Facility on the Nevada County Administrative Center campus in Nevada City.

• Lisa Redfern and Rose Murphy have created over a dozen free, self-guided walking tours focusing on local history. Tour topics range from “Women, Saints, and Sinners” to “From Bandits to Badges”. And three tours in Grass Valley and one in Nevada City focus on the areas' once thriving China Towns. Redfern and Murphy take KVMR News to the start of the “Grass Valley Chinatown” tour.