Kerry Klein
Associate Editor and ReporterKerry Klein is an award-winning reporter whose coverage of public health, air pollution, drinking water access and wildfires in the San Joaquin Valley has been featured on NPR, KQED, Science Friday and Kaiser Health News. Her work has earned numerous regional Edward R. Murrow and Golden Mike Awards and has been recognized by the Association of Health Care Journalists and Society of Environmental Journalists. Her podcast Escape From Mammoth Pool was named a podcast “listeners couldn’t get enough of in 2021” by the radio aggregator NPR One.
After growing up near Boston, Kerry graduated from McGill University with a B.S. in geology. When she began working as an exploration geologist and geothermal energy analyst, radio reporting was a distant and unlikely future. But she found new significance in media while hosting a talk show about science at a Montreal public radio station and later while producing a podcast for Science Magazine. She later returned to school to study science journalism at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
When she’s not in front of a computer or microphone, Kerry can be found biking to the rock climbing gym, practicing her violin, sewing unnecessary but very cute articles of clothing, or wandering the Sierra foothills with her husband and daughter.
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A Kern County supervisor was allegedly stabbed by his child and is now under investigation over allegations of sexual assault involving a separate child, Sheriff Donny Youngblood told reporters Thursday.
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The prospective operator of Madera Community Hospital on Tuesday cleared one of its final hurdles to begin reopening the hospital that has been closed since December 2022.
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On Monday, the state approved a $57 million, interest-free Distressed Hospital Loan for the company planning to reopen the hospital.
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Two objections filed in federal bankruptcy court raise questions about the ability of Madera Community Hospital’s owner-to-be to operate the facility as a true safety net hospital. A judge will likely discuss the arguments in a hearing later this month.
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New buyers for the auctioned off Prima Wawona farmland, as well as new training opportunities, could help those displaced by mass layoffs in central California.
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Covering a large swath of the San Joaquin Valley – a red, rural, agricultural region of an otherwise densely populated blue state – House District 22 is the very definition of a swing district.
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Since the beginning of the outbreak in Feb. 2022, 7 million birds have been euthanized in California. More than half of those were in Merced County.
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Madera County authorities are investigating a collision that killed eight men, most of whom were farmworkers, early Friday morning.
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Many health experts, community advocates and lawmakers had hoped the federal judge would delay his decision to allow for more time for UCSF, Adventist and Madera County to develop a competing offer on the hospital.
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A judge on Tuesday approved a plan by American Advanced Management to operate Madera Community Hospital, capping off a lengthy day of hearings and a year of legal hurdles for the bankrupt hospital.