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Expenses for lawsuits, investigations, labor negotiations and contract reviews at the State Center Community College District rose from $300,000 in 2016 to more than $1.2 million in 2024.

One of the endangered species that calls the vernal pools home has lived for millions of years.

On Thursday, Honorable Judge John Kirihara, who served on the Merced County Superior Court for more than 20 years, officiated Congressman Adam Gray's second ceremonial oath.

A trio of state audits showed California’s public universities possess tens of thousands of Native American belongings and ancestral remains. It’s been decades since a federal law ordered their return to tribes.

KVPR reporter Rachel Livinal shares what inspired her to follow Merced high school students as they pursue careers in the arts – and the teacher who’s encouraging them.

State Water Resources Control Board Chair Joaquin Esquivel sat down with KVPR’s Elizabeth Arakelian to discuss groundwater resources, and why his agency may be placing a region of Kern County under probation.

Rios aims to publish a poetry anthology with the help of funding from the Academy of American Poets.

Most voters in the Central Valley have little confidence in elected officials. A new survey finds the San Joaquin Valley is high among dissatisfaction in the state.

Madera County residents have now gone 18 months without a hospital. In that time, the consequences on public health haven’t been so clear. We investigate just how much health outcomes have changed.

Fresno State calls itself the Valley’s university, but it’s campus is deteriorating. And twice now, Fresno County residents voted down a ballot measure that would have infused the university with more than a billion dollars for repairs. So, why do voters not trust the measure, and what’s next for the university?