san joaquin river

The property along the San Joaquin River has been renamed after the Peck family demanded their name be removed amid controversy over human composting.

A new form of “green burial” is gaining attention, but its use along the river raises questions about transparency, ethics and public land use in Fresno County.

Andrew Firebaugh founded the town as a ferry crossing in 1854, before building a toll road over Pacheco Pass and later founding Academy northeast of Clovis.

The United States Supreme Court officially declined to hear a case alleging the federal government illegally stiffed water contractors, including the City of Fresno, when it gave them zero water during the crushing 2014-2015 drought.

Monte Redondo could be seen from many miles away, and was a popular rendezvous for Spanish military explorers. Most scholars agree that it was located along the Fresno River west of Madera.

A last-minute visit by Leland Stanford led to a change that gave us Fresno, and doomed the planned town of Sycamore.

While the bulk of the California Gold Rush took place from Mariposa north, the Central California foothills to the south also had a great deal of mining activity.

A planned mega-development along the river in the late 1980s spurred three women to start the San Joaquin River Parkway & Conservation Trust.

The State Water Resources Control Board advance a controversial, Newsom-backed agreement in a new proposal, which qualifies as a major development in the long-running debate about delta water use.

The river we know today as the San Joaquin has had many names over the years.