Joshua Yeager
Reporter / Report For AmericaJoshua Yeager covers Kern County and the Southern San Joaquin Valley for KVPR, and is a member of the Report For Americas Corps. This is the first time in KVPR's history that the station has a full-time reporter based in Bakersfield. Report For America is a nationwide non-profit that helps local newsrooms expand their coverage by helping to fund a portion of new local reporting positions. Joshua is a Tulare native, and studied journalism at UC Irvine. Before joining KVPR, he was a reporter for the Visalia Times-Delta, where he covered local government and the pandemic.
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Transit workers in Visalia and Sequoia National Park are back on the job after a 42-day labor strike ended over the weekend. -
Data shows cities in the San Joaquin Valley have experienced some of the biggest rental price surges post-pandemic. Low-income residents and their families often feel that pinch the hardest.
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New federal funding aims to supercharge carbon capture technology in Kern County as the government pursues ambitious climate goals.
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California's murder rate declined in 2022, but the data tells a different story across much of the San Joaquin Valley.
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Barely a month after House Republicans voted to censure him, Congressman Adam Schiff seemed to relish campaigning in the heart of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s district.
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The two-term Democrat filed her paperwork a week after Democrat Rudy Salas announced his own campaign.
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California continues to buckle under a sweltering heat wave with no end in sight. But the state’s epic snowpack isn’t going anywhere just yet.
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California officials unveiled a plan to permanently seal some of the state’s more than 5,000 orphaned oil wells, including dozens nestled among Kern County neighborhoods that have been the focus of advocate attention for decades.
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Forecasters say the San Joaquin Valley will experience little relief from a heat wave strangling the Southwest this month.
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As a brutal heatwave bears down on the San Joaquin Valley, thousands of farmworkers remain out in fields – where temperatures could reach 115 degrees.
