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Skilled trade workers plan to strike at CSU campuses, Salinas healthcare workers wait for their first union contract, Monarch butterfly population continues to decline, and more in this week's local news roundup.
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Local instrumental rock trio Yeobo release debut album "Keeping Score" on Valentine's Day
- Salinas musician Flaco El Jandro enters original song "Cobarde" in NPR's Tiny Desk Contest
- WATCH: Actor Nick Offerman brings woodworking and bookish mirth to Monterey
- Comedian Samantha Bee Finds the Funny in Menopause
- Actor William Shatner brings classic Star Trek film to Monterey
- NPR Journalist and cabaret singer Ari Shapiro brings songs and stories to Santa Cruz
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More than 6,000 people were killed in over three days when a Sudanese paramilitary group unleashed "a wave of intense violence" in Sudan's Darfur region in late October, according to the UN. -
"There doesn't seem to be any shame about this among people who used to feel like you had to have some sort of decorum," Obama said in an interview that was posted on YouTube Saturday. -
This band of airborne health workers bring essential medical care to isolated communities in the southern African nation. In addition to turbulence, they face a new obstacle: budget cuts. -
Ilia Malinin's painful falls at the Milan Cortina Games follow in a long tradition of great U.S. athletes who get the "yips" or the "twisties" during the Olympics. -
U.S. Alpine skier Mikaela Shiffrin looks unstoppable everywhere except the Olympics. She's running out of chances to medal at the Milan Cortina Games. -
As people travel for the holiday weekend, much of Northern California is under a winter storm watch, with communities bracing for several feet of snow. -
Tumbleweeds roll along in Western movies and on the landscape of the U.S. high plains, but they're also an invasive nuisance for farmers.
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Once a racer for Norway, Pinheiro Braathen switched to Brazil, his mother's home country. In winning the Olympic giant slalom on Saturday, he earned South America's first medal at a Winter Games. -
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with WWNO listener Shyra Latiolais and Weekend Edition Puzzlemaster Will Shortz. -
Danny O'Shea turned 35 at his first Olympics, after three decades of skating and two reversed retirements.
