A Santa Cruz gardening collective cultivates belonging for queer and trans Asian Americans
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Photo by Tâm Vũ for KQED |
Tam Welch, co-founder of Bitter Cotyledons, poses for a portrait with the Japanese buckwheat plant in Santa Cruz on Aug. 30, 2025. Bitter Cotyledons strives to build a community for queer and Asian individuals to connect with their culture through gardening and food.
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ICYMI: National Night Out at Yosemite Street Village 2025 |
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Photo by Annie Barker for Stocktonia/CatchLight Local/Report for America |
A child participates in an 11 and under watermelon eating contest during the Yosemite Street Village's Annual Neighborhood Night Out Block Party in Stockton on Aug. 5, 2025.
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Lodi Grape Festival draws crowds |
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Photo by Annie Barker for Stocktonia/CatchLight Local/Report for America |
Goldfish at the Lodi Grape Festival in Lodi on Thursday, Sept. 11, 2025
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‘Can I just be a kid?’: Students shaken by immigration raids seek help from school counselors |
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Photo by Zaydee Sanchez for CalMatters/CatchLight |
From left to right, Maria Magaña, a guidance counselor, and Vanessa Ruiz, a mental health clinician with the Oxnard School District, have been supporting students who fear their immigrant parents may be detained as ICE raids continue. Sept. 18, 2025
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‘Can I just be a kid?’: Students shaken by immigration raids seek help from school counselors |
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Photo by Zaydee Sanchez for CalMatters/CatchLight |
First: Uplifting messages line the hallways of Juan Lagunas Soria Elementary School in Oxnard. Last: Leaves begin to turn brown as fall approaches in Oxnard, on Sept. 18, 2025.
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Will streamlined environmental rules hasten development in Santa Cruz County?
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Photo by Amaya Edwards for Santa Cruz Local |
A construction crew works on the Pacific Station North housing development on Aug. 19, 2025.
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The day the text never came
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Photo by Hiram Alejandro Durán for El Timpano/CatchLight Local/Report for America |
Maria Jose Gonzalez and Derbing Alvarado Sr. sit together in their living room, quietly carrying the weight of losing their 15-year-old son, who was fatally shot on his way to soccer practice in East Oakland. Their grief is a constant presence as they navigate life without him.
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These rural Californians want to secede. Newsom’s maps would pair them with Bay Area liberals
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Photo by Miguel Gutierrez Jr. for CalMatters |
Cattle graze on farmland in Modoc County on Sept. 4, 2025.
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Neighbors host ice cream social for kids in San Francisco's Tenderloin, where there is no ice cream shop
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Photo by Beth LaBerge for KQED |
The inaugural children’s ice cream social in the Tenderloin in San Francisco on Sept. 18, 2025. A new coalition wants to throw kid-friendly events in the Tenderloin and change perceptions of the neighborhood.
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