Kings County

Rural counties like Kings — with lots of land, sunshine and wind — are the focal point for many renewable energy projects. Now they are at the epicenter of a statewide controversy, too.

Looking at water levels near Hanford in Kings County, researchers determined land will continue sinking for centuries unless groundwater is replenished in those areas.

A Central Valley district attorney is defying the attorney general with his plan to pursue a new murder charge against a woman who used methamphetamine and delivered a stillbirth.

All three attended top universities and were their high school valedictorians.

A Democratic bill would no longer treat stillbirths as “unattended deaths,” investigated by coroners. But anti-abortion activists fear the change would legalize “infanticide” after babies are born.

A rural prosecutor and the state’s attorney general are facing off in the controversial case in Kings County that has alarmed abortion rights advocates.

Beyond just books, libraries offer training, technology and access to life-changing resources. To learn more, Valley Edition host Kathleen Schock checked in with a panel of public librarians from across the San Joaquin Valley.

A large water pipeline being built near Lemoore in Kings County is raising eyebrows as much for its possible uses as for the name associated with its construction — John Vidovich.

Small farmers struggle as ag titans wheel water for profit.

The city of Hanford in Kings County is celebrating its 130th birthday, and residents have filled the weekend with activities and events commemorating the…