Stories by Madison Aument

US Senator Adam Schiff visited San Bernardino Valley College on Monday. He was there to visit the future site of a campus housing project. Schiff also held a roundtable with local college students. Then he joined KVCR's Madison Aument in the studio where they discussed the California governor's race, the war in Iran, its effect on oil prices and a bipartisan AI bill.

Riverside County was the first to adopt a state law allowing people to operate kitchens out of their homes. The law's adoption in Riverside County has spurred a wave of Latino home cooks across the state.

The sheriff oversees the coroner's office in a vast majority of California counties. A state senator from the Inland Empire wants that to change in Riverside County.

Three people were recently sentenced in a bizarre insurance fraud case involving a bear suit, metal claws and luxury cars.

The median home price in the Inland Empire rose by more than $100,000 from 2019 to 2021. Now, home prices across the region are declining.

A community member had asked for it to be removed because it's sexually explicit.

Tax Day ghost preparer scams, California's Density Bonus Law, CSUSB's emerging tech workforce conference, and arson charges in the Ontario warehouse fire.

A California court has unsealed the secret warrants that the Riverside County sheriff used to seize hundreds of thousands of ballots. The warrants raise questions as to whether the sheriff's investigation is valid.

This week on Economics IE: gas prices, oil drilling and AI.

Jamelle Bouie is a New York Times columnist who writes about politics through the lens of American political history. Thursday night, Bouie gave a lecture at UC Riverside as part of a nearly 60 year tradition of bringing the country's best known journalists to Riverside. He told the audience the United States is asking fundamental questions like what it means to be an American. And that the Reconstruction era, the period after the American Civil War, can help Americans better understand the changes the US is undergoing today. After his lecture and a Q-and-A, KVCR reporter Madison Aument slipped backstage to ask Bouie a few more questions.