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Focuses on a proposed legislation that would prohibit California agencies from purchasing sport-utility vehicles.

Examines the decline of the grape industry in California, as prices collapse. Plight of grape farmers; Impact of rising costs and foreign competition on the family-dominated industry of wine grapes; Background on the planting frenzy in the 1990s; History of the cultivation of grapes in California; Comments of farmers who are going out of business; Prices; Outlook for wineries and growers.

Reports on the decision of Palo Alto City Council in California to drop a year-old proposal that would have banned rude behavior and unflattering personal gestures by council members.

Reports on the decision of the University of California at Berkeley to turn away summer students from countries with large number of cases of severe acute respiratory syndrome disease.

Reports on the number of sea otter deaths in California in April 2003.

Reports on the reactions of people in San Francisco, California on the success of the war of the U.S.-led coalition forces against Iraq.

Deals with the criticism to the move of San Francisco City, California for its decision to market the Hetchy Hetchy Reservoir in a bottled water through a venture the city entered into.

Reports on the ruling of federal judge, Thomas J. Whelan of Federal District Court in San Diego, California, to restore water to the Imperial Valley until a lawsuit over the reduction could be heard.

Deals with the sense of alienation raised by the U.S. war against Iraq in California.

Reports on the decision of San Francisco, California Police Chief Prentice E. Sanders to suspend his assistant chief and some top commanders because of criminal corruption proceedings against them.

Focuses on the indictments of ten members of San Francisco, California's police department, including the chief, Prentice E. Sanders. Overview of criminal charges, which range from conspiring to obstruct justice to felony assault; Reactions of Mayor Willie L. Brown Jr. and other community leaders; Implications of the turmoil; Background on Chief Heather J. Fong, who is the stand-in for Sanders; Outlook.

Reports on the trial of marijuana advocate Ed Rosenthal on charges of marijuana cultivation and conspiracy stemming from a business enterprise which grew marijuana for medicinal purposes. His possible sentence in this case; Implications of the trial, which exposes a rift between California and the United States government over medicinal marijuana; Details of the case; Outlook.

Reports on the decision of the University of California officials in Berkeley to permit the Emma Goldman Papers project to send a fund-raising letter which include quotations from Goldman about war and the suppression of speech.

Reports on a dispute at the University of California at Berkeley, which houses the papers of anarchist Emma Goldman. Background on Goldman's radical causes; Refusal of university officials to allow a fund-raising appeal for the Emma Goldman Papers Project to be mailed; Concerns of officials over Goldman's views on the suppression of free speech and her opposition to war as the U.S. prepares for possible military action against Iraq; Accusations of censorship against the university; Comments of project director Candace S. Falk, university officials and others.

Focuses on the findings of a study on flooding in the Headwaters Forest conservation area in Humboldt County, California and the implications for the cutting of redwood trees.

Reports on the parking meter program implemented in the San Francisco, California for cyclists as of January 12, 2003.

Reports on the lawsuit filed by farmers in Southern California against the federal government in a dispute over Colorado River as of January 12, 2003.

Explains that a state report in California on the Klamath River supports the contentions by fishermen, environmentalists and several American Indian tribes that thousands of fish died on the river in fall 2002 because the federal government allowed too much water to be diverted to farmers.

Reports that the U.S. Department of the Interior will not allow California to take more than its allotted share of water from the Colorado River. Circumstances that led to the crackdown on water use; How cities across the West look to agriculture to help meet growing water needs; Likelihood that farmers will switch to crops that yield higher profits with less water; Background on California's water use; Why the urban sharing of farm water has become particularly urgent in California; Outlook.

Reports on the reduction in Nevada's water supply from the Colorado River as a consequence of failed negotiations in California over how to divide water within Southern California.

Reports on the decision of the U.S. government to cut flows from the Colorado River to California cities and farms beginning January 2003, after efforts by water officials in Southern California failed to reach a deal on water usage from the Colorado River.

Discusses the decision of San Francisco, California Superior Court Judge Kevin M. McCarthy on the joint-custody case of a home-run baseball No. 73 from Barry Bonds involving Alex Popov and Patrick Hayashi.

Reports on the increase in incidents of bear-human encounters at Yosemite National Park, California in 2002.

Talks about the court ruling in San Francisco, California, which ordered the sale of Barry Bonds's 73rd home-run ball and the proceeds split between two San Francisco Giants fans who had been fighting over the ball ever since it landed in the arcade section of Pacific Bell Park on October 7, 2001.

Reports on the steps made by the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush to cut water supplies in California, in January 2003, if water agencies in the state fail to reach an agreement over disputed flows from the Colorado River.

Discusses the refusal of a rural irrigation district in Southern California to sell irrigation water from the Colorado River in Colorado to a nearby San Diego County in California.

Provides information on the artificial decorations that will be used in adorning the Anwahnee Hotel and the Yosemite Lodge in Yosemite National Park, California for the 2002 Christmas season.

Reports on the impact of the occurrence of small quakes on residents in San Ramon, California in November 2002.

Reports on a financial crisis affecting the Golden Gate Bridge Highway and Transportation District agency which operates the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California. Its failure to raise revenue by raising fees and cutting services; Its efforts to raise money through a solicitation campaign; Reaction of proponents to this campaign; Similar transportation funding problems throughout the United States.

Reports on the issue of renewable energy sources versus tribal tradition as a result of the approval of the Bush administration to construct a geothermal power plant in the Modoc National Forest in California.

Presents information on the Solar Energy Monitoring Network in San Francisco, California.

Reports on the sale of office items used by the Bay Area Sports Organizing Committee in San Francisco, California.

Focuses on the increase in feral pigs in San Jose, California in 2002.

Focuses on the State Theatrical Resources Partnership program of the California State Film Commission which promotes the use of abandoned houses in the state as locations for filming.

Focuses on a proposal by environmentalists to drain the reservoir at the Hetch Hetchy Valley, north of Yosemite National Park, California. Reactions to the proposal; Goal of restoring the valley by dismantling the O'Shaughnessy Dam on the Tuolumne River; Lack of a plan to replace the reservoir, which is used by San Francisco; Consideration of the plan by San Francisco's water officials; History of the valley; Outlook.

Discusses issues on the proposal by environmentalists to drain the O'Shaughnessy Dam on the Tuolumne River to restore the Hetch Hetchy Valley in the Yosemite National Park in California.

Provides information on the continuing disputes between the Pacific Maritime Association and union members of longshoremen in Oakland, California after the workers returned to their jobs under the federal court order.

Reports on the unwillingness of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to link the salmon fish kills in Klamath River, California in September 2002 with the diversion of the water for irrigation.

Reports on the prevalence of fungus-like microorganism Phylophthora ramorum in the forests of Santa Cruz Mountains in Corralitos, California.