Sixteen and seventeen-year-olds are one step closer to voting in local school board elections in Oakland and Berkeley.

KCBS Radio's Raquel Maria Dillon reports Alameda County's Board of Supervisors has voted at last to allocate money to make youth voting happen.

Sixteen and seventeen-year-olds are one step closer to voting in local school board elections in Oakland and Berkeley.
KCBS Radio's Raquel Maria Dillon reports Alameda County's Board of Supervisors has voted at last to allocate money to make youth voting happen.

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Alameda County Board of Supervisors votes to allocate money to youth voting

It's one of the most congested highways in all of Northern California, linking the Bay Area with Sacramento, Lake Tahoe, and beyond. 

Now, as KCBS Radio's Jeffrey Schaub reports, express lanes are coming to Interstate 80 in Solano County, but they won’t be free.

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It's one of the most congested highways in all of Northern California, linking the Bay Area with Sacramento, Lake Tahoe, and beyond.      Now, as KCBS Radio's Jeffrey Schaub reports, express lanes are coming to Interstate 80 in Solano County, but they won’t be free.
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Express lanes coming to Interstate 80 in Solano County

A new state law banning junk fees is set to take effect in July, which means restaurants and bars will have to stop adding surcharges to the end of your tab.

KCBS Radio's David Welch reports officials with the Golden Gate Restaurant Association say members are fearing the worst.

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A new state law banning junk fees is set to take effect in July, which means restaurants and bars will have to stop adding surcharges to the end of your tab.
KCBS Radio's David Welch reports officials with the Golden Gate Restaurant Association say members are fearing the worst.
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New state law banning junk fees will cause restaurants to raise prices

Buprenorphine is one of three medications approved by the FDA for treatment of opioid use disorder and it's been shown to lower the risk of dying by 50%.

Fewer than half of San Francisco's pharmacies currently stock this so-called "gold standard addiction treatment" but as KCBS Radio's Shannon Golden reports, efforts are underway to make it accessible city-wide. 

The number of U.S. fatal overdoses fell last year. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention posted the numbers Wednesday. CDC officials noted the data is provisional and could change after more analysis, but that they still expect a drop when the final counts are in. The agency says about 107,500 people died of overdoses in the U.S. last year. That’s down 3% from 2022. It’s too soon to know what spurred the decline, but experts reacted cautiously. They say the decline as relatively small. They also note that the last time a decline occurred — in 2018 — drug deaths shot up afterward.

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Buprenorphine is one of three medications approved by the FDA for treatment of opioid use disorder and it's been shown to lower the risk of dying by 50%.
Fewer than half of San Francisco's pharmacies currently stock this so-called "gold standard addiction treatment" but as KCBS Radio's Shannon Golden reports, efforts are underway to make it accessible city-wide. 
The number of U.S. fatal overdoses fell last year. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention posted the numbers Wednesday. CDC officials noted the data is provisional and could change after more analysis, but that they still expect a drop when the final counts are in. The agency says about 107,500 people died of overdoses in the U.S. last year. That’s down 3% from 2022. It’s too soon to know what spurred the decline, but experts reacted cautiously. They say the decline as relatively small. They also note that the last time a decline occurred — in 2018 — drug deaths shot up afterward.
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Alameda County Board of Supervisors votes to allocate money to youth voting

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