KTVU Special Reports
KTVU Special Reports
Teen magazines push unrealistic images on young girls
Open any teen magazine and you'll see models with lustrous hair, shiny lips, and gleaming, slender limbs. And for every girl in the magazine, there are thousands of girls in real life, reading and absorbing the messages found inside. "I just remember we'd be getting ready for dances in middle ...
Camera-equipped street sweepers could capture parking violators
There is one sound that sends thousands of Bay Area drivers running to their cars: street sweepers. Every day, parking control officers in Oakland ticket drivers who've waited too long to move their cars for street cleaning. In Oakland, street sweeping citations brought in almost $10 million last year and ...
New state law holds parents criminally responsible for child's truancy
A new state law taking effect this year allows California's district attorneys to take a hard hammer to the increasingly high profile problem of chronic truancy. Among the very first to wield that hammer is a Bay Area district attorney who has already filed criminal charges against two mothers and ...
Closure of some California parks presents dilemma for state
As the California budget crises continues, the question of how the state will shut down to close the public spaces of some state parks remains open to speculation. Twin Lakes State Beach in Santa Cruz may be the most unusual California State Park slated to close July 1st. Most parks ...
Feds offer graduates options to pay off soaring student loan debt
As thousands of Bay Area college students are graduating this month, many will face debt, and within a year or so, they'll be forced to start paying off those college loans. KTVU asked a number of recent University of California, Berkeley graduates about their debt at their commencement earlier this ...
New programs mining social media sites for information
Millions of Americans send out Tweets and post on Facebook every day, but it's not just friends who are paying attention to the information that constantly floods social media websites. The night the mega-movie "The Avengers" debuted, viewers not only watched the movie, many used social media to tell friends ...
EPA finds Bay Area waters far more polluted than once thought
A powerful state agency is poised to start taking action on recent findings that California's rivers, streams and lakes are far more choked with poisons, trash and other pollution threats than previously known. What the guardians of the state's all-important water supplies will do will have a direct effect on ...
Web expert: digital photos contain private data, pose safety concerns
Bay Area mom, Marin Parr, is like millions of other moms out there. She keeps her friends and family up on what her son, Archer, is doing by posting pictures, on Facebook. Whether it's your son's picture or one of a group of your friends, Internet Child Safety expert Steve ...
Price variances at the pump derive from different additives
Chris Worling said he usually fills up his gas tank at a Shell or Chevron gas station, but definitely not at Costco because it generally costs 20 cents more. "I tried the Circle K gas and it seemed to burn just as efficiently. But I don't know. It's just a ...
State home to some illegal firearm sales despite tough laws
California might have the toughest gun laws in the country, but that doesn't seem to have hurt the popularity of firearms here in the Bay Area. A KTVU News crew was among hundreds of people who crowded into the Cow Palace in Daly City last month for the Crossroads of ...
Privacy, information sharing issues loom in world of apps
Growing concerns over privacy with smartphone apps has gotten everyone from the courts to the federal government to industry leaders entering the debate, but a solution may still be a long time coming. These days there's an app for pretty much everything. Everything from banking to games and even apps ...
Some Bay Area school districts get high-tech revamp
Every senior at Acalanes High School has a new iPad and other tablets to help them learn. The school district taxpayers' passed a bond measure in Lafayette that paid for this technology at a slightly lower price than the retail price because they bought them in bulk. "There's so many ...
New fertility monitoring service boasts remarkable success rate
Hopeful parents are willing to spend tens of thousands of dollars on fertility treatments, but there is an old fashion method that is getting a high tech twist. While some parents are able to have a baby the old-fashioned way, for other Bay Area couples, getting pregnant can become difficult ...
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