About the Collaborative:
The Central Valley News Collaborative was announced in late 2020 and began its work in 2021 with the Collaborative's reporters shining a light on how the Central Valley’s communities of color have been disproportionately impacted, physically and financially, by COVID-19. The Collaborative is now exploring other issues facing the region's Latino communities, from climate change to agriculture. The Collaborative is supported by the Central Valley Journalism Collaborative with technology and training support by Microsoft Corp.
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Investigations are underway after a Bakersfield farmworker was killed while on the job in Santa Barbara County. -
The Fresno Teachers Association and the Fresno Unified School District have gone back and forth on contract negotiations since last November. -
Residents in the city of Woodlake in Tulare County filed government claims against the city as a result of its flood response back in March. -
A law created in 2002 paved the way for Mexican physicians to practice in communities across California. Twenty years later, half a dozen are practicing in the San Joaquin Valley. -
A bankruptcy judge will soon decide whether Madera Community Hospital needs to liquidate to repay its creditors. Its largest creditor, St. Agnes Medical Center, is the very entity that backed out of a purchasing deal last December. -
As temperatures rise, California’s record-breaking snowpack could be a ticking time bomb for the state’s most vulnerable residents, especially those living in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. -
The Comcast Corporation today announced a significant investment for one of Merced County’s rural communities. -
The Tule River Indian Reservation in the eastern foothills of the Sequoia National Forest suffered severe flooding in early March. -
Rural communities across the San Joaquin Valley have suffered extreme flooding since the start of the year. Recovery will be an arduous process, especially for undocumented residents who are rarely eligible for federal aid. -
Eastern Tulare County communities are continuing to clean up from the series of storms this month that brought flooding.
