Tash Kimmell

A day at an annual event in rural California: the gay rodeo

Every summer, a different sort of rodeo takes place in the California town of Duncan Mills: a gay rodeo. We pay a visit.

Duncans Mills in rural California has a population of 175 and is usually quiet. But on one recent weekend, hundreds of visitors took over the small town for an annual event - a gay rodeo. Tash Kimmel reports.

TASH KIMMELL, BYLINE: It's a balmy, cloudless Saturday at the Duncans Mills Rodeo Arena. A dusty sea of spe

New Carbon Capture Funding Could Help California Meet Climate Goals

The Department of Energy has announced $100 million in funding for 19 carbon capture projects nationwide. One of those projects is destined for the Kern County foothills, near Taft.

Reporter: Joshua Yeager, KVPR

Santa Rosa Vigil Marks One Year Since Killing Of Pelaez-Chavez

It’s been one year since a Sonoma County sheriff’s deputy shot and killed local farmworker, David Pelaez-Chavez. His family and community members are c

Although wild salmon remains one of Alaska’s most lucrative seafood industries, it’s also one of the state’s most vulnerable, as climate change and population growth increase pressure on the world’s oceans. As it looks more and more likely that demand will eventually outstrip the productivity of salmon and other wild seafood stocks, researchers have turned to another method for producing protein from fish – by culturing it in a lab.

KCAW’s Tash Kimmell recently traveled to California to taste s

As any Alaskan will tell you, life in the 49th state isn’t cheap. But for those living in remote villages, and especially island communities, prices can be astronomical. In Kake, a village of about 500, residents are feeling the squeeze of inflation especially hard, as transportation costs have driven up the price of food and basic necessities to unimaginable levels. For lifelong resident Chelsea Lewis, higher cost of living is something she’s come to terms with.

“Food is one of those things th

It’s a brisk and beautiful April morning when I arrive at Mosquito Cove. I join group of roughly 15 people gathered in the parking lot. They’ve come for the last day of a six-part traditional food and medicine class, and they’re eager to get on the trail.

“How many people have eaten wild celery before? Any of you? How many of you how many of you have had a rash from wild celery that was awful and makes you go, ‘Why did she just asked me if I want to eat it?,'” Vivian Mork (Yéilk’) says, address

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It’s an uncharacteristically clear day in Sitka when Andrea Fraga picks me up in her skiff, her Corgi, Olive, in tow.

The local gardener and self-proclaimed homesteader has agreed to give me a tour of the commercial garden she runs with her partner, Kaleb Aldred, a few nautical miles from downtown Sitka. As we near Middle Island Gardens, Fraga spots a bear grazing in the inlet, a foreshadowing of the majestic and wild beauty of this place.


Even the root cellar, a solid wood door nestled int