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Nearly 250 high school students will represent the Central Valley on New Year’s Day. -
Former Bakersfield OB-GYN Arthur Park was on trial for negligence in the 2019 deaths of his patient Demi Dominguez and her baby boy. -
The highest elected body of nation’s No. 1 ag producer won’t include a farmer for the first time in 70 years. -
A string of shootings and violent incidents in the Tower District neighborhood in Fresno in recent weeks has sparked calls for changes by residents. -
In early 2023, storms and floods in California caught water managers by surprise, and left families cleaning up flood disasters as a series of storms pounded the state for weeks. -
We asked California governor candidates Xavier Becerra and Steve Hilton how they’d manage conflicts over water. The Republican endorsed more spending on dams.
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Republicans redrew congressional district lines to try to tilt the midterms in their favor. But now they are facing expensive and competitive races they had hoped to outmaneuver. -
The District 1 seat on the California Board Of Equalization is up for grabs this November with two Central Valley candidates competing for it. The politicians are making a name for themselves in a region that extends far beyond the San Joaquin Valley. We speak to KVPR reporter Samantha Rangel about the race and the role of the Board Of Equalization. Plus, the latest news headlines: Fresno leaders vote to create “defense fund” for immigrants; and recent crime surge leads to changes in a Fresno neighborhood. Today’s episode is hosted by Soreath Hok and produced by Jonathan Linden. -
The judge found the department's field operations to identify noncitizens who voted likely violated the Voting Rights Act, which bars voter intimidation. -
Rep. Adam Gray, a Democrat from Merced, won the closest House race in 2024 by just 187 votes. Now the GOP, which is hungry for a win in California, is spending millions to try and oust him.
As the number of detainees filling the nation's immigration detention centers grows, so does the need to get people back home if they’re lucky enough to be released.
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Gregory Weaver / FresnolandA new town the size of Fowler was greenlit by the Fresno County Board of Supervisors despite no answers on the project’s water supply. -
Rachel Livinal / The Merced FOCUSThe city of Merced is improving its fleet of first responders, and it’s partly thanks to a partnership with Merced College. -
Andrew Kuhn / CVJCImportant projects are underway to bring salmon runs back to the San Joaquin River below Friant Dam, two decades after a 2006 legal settlement made it possible. -
Samantha Rangel/KVPRIn medical school, most learning takes place in a classroom at desks within four walls. But at UCSF Fresno, a special program for aspiring doctors takes place in Yosemite National Park.
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The Fresno plain was a harsh, nearly featureless landscape in the 1860s. But one site stood out: a large green bush near what is today downtown Fresno.
