Erica Goldhawk

Aug 9, 2024 | msn.com | Erica Goldhawk

Aug 9, 2024 | kcra.com | Erica Goldhawk

The Education Department has delayed the release of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) by two months to Dec 1. This delay, the second in two years, could prevent students from knowing their financial aid amounts before the deadline to accept college admission offers. The department cited ongoing technical glitches from last year's attempt to streamline the application process.

Jul 15, 2024 | kcra.com | Melanie Wingo |Erica Goldhawk

A preliminary hearing started Monday in the case against a man accused in connection to a shootout and hostage situation at a Roseville area park. Eric Abril appeared before Judge Suzanne Gazzaniga at 10 a.m. at the Superior Court of Placer County Santucci Justice Center in Roseville. Investigators said Abril took two bystanders hostage and engaged in a gunbattle with law enforcement at Mahany Park in April 2023 as officers were trying to serve a felony search warrant on him.

Apr 19, 2024 | kcra.com | Erica Goldhawk

FOR LANE CLOSURES. THERE. $3 MILLION IN FUNDING IS AVAILABLE FOR FARMERS LOOKING TO IMPROVE THEIR SOIL HEALTH. THE CENTRAL SIERRA HEALTHY SOILS PROGRAM IS PROVIDING FREE TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AND FINANCIAL RESOURCES. THE GRANT IS AVAILABLE TO SMALL AGRICULTURAL PRODUCERS AND FAMILY FARMS IN EIGHT COUNTIES NEVADA, PLACER. EL DORADO. AMADOR. ALPINE. CALAVERAS, TUOLUMNE OR SACRAMENTO COUNTIES. THEY HOPE TO FUND ABOUT 50 ON FARM PROJECTS OVER FOUR YEARS.

Dec 19, 2023 | ksbw.com | Daniel Macht |Erica Goldhawk

A team that includes a UC Davis professor and a scientist with SETI, the organization that searches the cosmos for signs of alien intelligence, has cited a breakthrough here on Earth – a 20-minute “conversation” with a humpback whale in the wild. The Templeton Whale-SETI group said its findings on what it calls “non-human intelligence communication” could help in the search for aliens who may not communicate in a way humans might have previously assumed.