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The California Highway Patrol suspects a pickup truck driver slammed into a van carrying farmworkers. The impact left the van crushed, just as the workers were making their morning commutes to a vineyard farm outside Firebaugh.
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The city of Madera became the first in the San Joaquin Valley to call for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza amid the Israel-Hamas war. It was a unanimous decision.
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The city of Lindsay, California, made headlines in 2022 after appointing a 24-year old mayor – the youngest in the city’s history.
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In January, Julian Castro became the new CEO of the Latino Community Foundation — the largest Latino-serving philanthropic organization in the country.
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Mental health professionals remain in short supply across California, a problem that has only gotten worse since the pandemic spurred an increase in demand for behavioral health services.
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Historic flooding in the San Joaquin Valley, a hospital bankruptcy and an illegal biolab were the hottest topics on kvpr.org this past year.
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Leaders in San Joaquin and Stanislaus counties are among those who’ve opted to defer the new law, which would have gone into effect in January.
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New technologies were displayed at Fresno State to mark the first year of an initiative between educational institutions and community groups across the San Joaquin Valley.
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Statewide college enrollment by recent high school grads was down 5% in 2020. The San Joaquin valley has one of the lowest rates.
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A law created in 2002 paved the way for Mexican physicians to practice in communities across California. Twenty years later, half a dozen are practicing in the San Joaquin Valley.