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While DWR Director Karla Nemeth and her team are hearing from counties about needed resources, they are also assessing the state’s authority to intervene, if needed.
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Some Allensworth residents are choosing to stay and protect property despite an evacuation order due to threats of flooding.
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Tulare Lake is filling for the first time since 1997. But in nearby Corcoran, law enforcement and first responders are telling residents not to panic.
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Eastern Tulare County communities are continuing to clean up from the series of storms this month that brought flooding.
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Farmworking families allege intimidation and questions over immigration status, forcing some families to leave at least two centers in Farmersville and Woodville.
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In Tulare County, where reservoirs are at capacity and entire communities are underwater, so are agricultural fields. Almond trees have toppled, dairy herds have had to be relocated, and farmers and farmworkers have been displaced.

One in five Sierra Nevada conifers are no longer compatible with the environmental conditions around them, raising questions about how to manage the land. Researchers say it may get worse.
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Flooding and the re-formation of Tulare Lake has been too much to handle for local authorities --- so counties have requested the state’s help.
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A total of 295 types of drugs — everything from sedatives to children's flu medicine — were in short supply in 2022, according to a new report from the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security.
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The bill would ban several common ingredients used in processed foods, such as Red Dye No. 3, which has been linked to cancer in animal studies.
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Proponents of the bill say bias is prevalent, and it manifests in the form of social alienation and discrimination in housing, education and the tech sector where South Asians hold key roles.
Valley News
- Nearly 1,000 residents under evacuation as Allensworth, Alpaugh are threatened by flooding
- 131 homes affected by flooding at a small Tulare County community. Help is available
- Evacuations ordered as Porterville lake fills beyond capacity, water is released
- Tulare County communities inundated as atmospheric rivers drench state
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