6:00 PM Pacific Time: Mondays - Fridays
The Pacifica Evening News is a collaboration of KPFA and KPFK in Los Angeles and KFCF in Fresno. The hour-long newscast airs on all three stations each weeknight at 6:00 PM. KPFA News broadcasts news headlines throughout the day at 5:55, 7:00, 7:30, 8:00, 10:00, 12:00 and 4:00. Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice.
Congress debating a compromise budget plan that would open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling…..senate opponents won’t be able to use the filibuster to kill the plan…. President Bush with a rare prime time press conference….in his opening remarks Bush pushes congress to pass his energy bill and to overhaul Social Security, including … Continued
The Republican dominated house approves a bill making it illegal to take a teenager across state lines for an abortion without parental consent.. Former Vice President Al Gore on blames “Republican lust for one-party domination” for the Republican campaign to change senate rules on filibustering judicial nominees State senator Sheila Kuehl’s legislation for a state … Continued
A measure to legalize same-sex marriage in California wins approval by an assembly committee on a party line vote…opponents say it violates a five year old ballot initiative restricting marriage to a man and a woman… A new report documents an increase in violent hate crimes against bay area gays and lesbians, bisexuals and transgender … Continued
An assembly panel approves a measure asking California abide by the international Kyoto Treaty global Warming standards that were spurned by the Bush administration… Injured workers and their allies call for insurance rate regulation to cap the billions in profits they say are being pocketed by companies that provide workers compensation insurance… San Francisco supervisors … Continued
Earth Day and environmentalists rally on Capitol Hill to rail against the energy bill passed by the House of Representatives…..within the environmental community a debate on why the movement is losing its political muscle…. A report that the U.S. army has cleared four top officers of all allegations of wrongdoing in the Abu Ghraib prisoner … Continued
The House of Representatives passes a far-ranging energy bill that opens an Alaska Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling and shields makers of the gas additive MTBE from environmental lawsuits……it also funnels 12 billion dollars in tax breaks and subsidies to energy companies….critics call it a give-away The U.S. Senate poised to debate the future of … Continued
President Bush signs into law a far reaching overhaul of the nation’s bankruptcy rules which will make it impossible for some people in debt to get a clean financial start Connecticut becomes the second state to offer civil unions to same sex couples _ and the first to do so without being forced by the … Continued
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany, the Roman Catholic church’s leading hardliner, is elected pope and chooses the name Benedict the Sixteenth……as head of the congregation for the doctrine of the faith, Ratzinger disciplined dissidents and fought back reforms sought by liberals… The nomination of controversial Rightwinger John Bolton to be the new U.S. Ambassador to … Continued
