Every day at KCBX News, we work to report the stories you want to hear, and now we’d like to recruit you! We want to bring you - our audience - closer to the news and into the journalistic storytelling we strive to do here at KCBX by answering your questions about the region. Central Coast Curious is a regular KCBX News series that lets you be a part of the news reporting process.
Here’s how it works: You send us your questions about the Central Coast region by emailing them to news@kcbx.org. Later, you’ll have opportunities to vote on the ones you most want us to answer. Then, we’ll work with our question askers to report the answers together and broadcast our reports on the air and on NPR One.
You can ask us anything, silly or serious. You might wonder: Why do we have so few mental health facilities in our area? What's the status of the proposed Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary? Where are secret beaches? How much is the city of San Luis Obispo spending on recycling? What defines Central Coast cuisine?
So, ask away. Be Central Coast curious! Email your questions to news@kcbx.org
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People gathered Tuesday night on Cal Poly’s campus to protest a speaker who advocates for banning gender affirming care for minors. The event was sponsored by the Cal Poly chapter of Turning Point USA, a group that focuses on educating students on conservative issues. -
The Grape Nut, Betsey Nash, and Sommelier Ali Rush join millions of wine enthusiasts worldwide in tasting the very first juice of the 2023 vintage. It’s Beaujolais Nouveau Day in Paris and on the Central Coast.
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Fujimori, 85, was serving a 25-year sentence in connection with the slayings of 25 Peruvians by death squads in the 1990s.
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The attack just before noon sent police swarming onto the campus, while students barricaded themselves in classrooms.
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NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Quentin Fulks from the Biden Campaign about campaign strategy ahead of the Republican debate in Alabama.
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Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy says he will retire at the end of 2023, meaning he has just weeks left in his term in Congress. His decision to quit comes as Republicans are facing lots of pressure.
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At UN climate talks, the global community is looking at tripling the amount of renewables coming online. In the U.S., that's meant a push into offshore wind — but it's been met with fits and starts.
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Norman Lear, who addressed serious issues in humorous sitcoms, died Tuesday in Los Angeles at the age of 101. He leaves behind a legacy of hit 1970s sitcoms that revolutionized television.
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The publicly-edited online encyclopedia Wikipedia raked in more than 84 billion views this year. The Wikimedia Foundation gas released a breakdown of those numbers.
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Israeli officials have accused international groups, including the United Nations, of ignoring what it describes as evidence of rape and sexual violence by Hamas fighters during the Oct. 7 attacks.
