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Residents of the Tulare County town of East Orosi gathered on April 22 for an event many thought might never happen – the official beginning of construction on a new $13.5 million drinking water system.
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The property along the San Joaquin River has been renamed after the Peck family demanded their name be removed amid controversy over human composting. -
After four decades of piecing the San Joaquin River Parkway together parcel by parcel, the state is preparing to hand six of its properties — 874 acres in all — to California State Parks, giving the long-stalled greenway its first permanent institutional landlord. -
Thousands of California educators with work authorization and deportation protection under the DACA program are facing delayed renewals. -
California for now has prevented the Trump administration from changing priorities in homelessness funding to favor temporary shelters rather than long-term housing. -
California now has eight ICE detention centers. Two opened since President Trump took office in 2025, with both operating in former state prisons.
How transitional kindergarten is shaping young children in the San Joaquin Valley
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Rich Pedroncelli/FR171957 APCalifornia lawmakers alarmed by the treatment of people brought to hospitals by federal immigration agents want to strengthen protections for detained patients receiving care at medical facilities, including by making it easier for their families and attorneys to find them. -
Adeyemi AdebiyiResearchers at UC Merced and across California are trying to inform residents about the harmful effects of dust on health and the climate as the volume of dust continues to increase in parts of the state and in the San Joaquin Valley. -
Alexandra Hootnick / CalMattersWith costs sometimes exceeding $100,000 per student, small districts are often under pressure to close schools. -
Kerry Klein/KVPRAs election season approaches, here is what voters must know about proposed identity verification rules that could take effect later this year.
Yohei Utsuki/Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Hokkaido University
Researchers discovered evidence of enormous Kraken-like creatures who hunted in the seas some 100 million years ago, competing with large apex predators.
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The first non-native settlers in the Bakersfield area were from Mexico, in the area known as Rio Bravo, or Old Panama. -
Archibald Brabazon Sparrow Acheson, the 4th Earl of Gosford, was a member of the British House of Lords and played an important role in the coronation of Edward the VII in 1901. He also owned a large farm near Bakersfield. -
Yamato Colony near Livingston was founded by and for Japanese American farmers.
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