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Anyone who has waited months to see a specialist or had to travel outside the region for medical care understands the urgent ...
San Joaquin Valley farmers are working against the clock to rescue cropland from damaging floodwaters and bolster defenses before an epic spring snowmelt.
The San Joaquin Valley never fully recovered from a summer COVID-19 surge driven by the Delta variant. The rural, agricultural region continues to be hard-hit by the virus.
Of 15 California counties with higher percentages of positive coronavirus or COVID-19 tests in late May and June, eight are in the San Joaquin Valley: Kings, Tulare, Fresno, Kern, Madera, San ...
In a move that upset and baffled local leaders, conservationists and floodplain advocates, Gov. Gavin Newsom, in his 2023–24 budget proposal (PDF), eliminated all $40 million that had been allocated ...
This is what the COVID-19 pandemic looks like in the part of California where the Delta variant surge refuses to let up.In Fresno County, understaffed hospitals have been so clogged that ambulance … ...
The governor eliminated $40 million for restoring floodplains, halting projects that help protect vulnerable, disadvantaged communities like Stockton. San Joaquin Valley legislators are pushing back.
San Joaquin Valley voters go conservative red in recall election to oust Gavin Newsom as California’s governor. Here is an explanation why they voted that way.
Too expensive for many San Joaquin Valley farmers apparently, but not for Bay Area water consumers. The B.F. Sisk Dam at San Luis Reservoir with its four water intake towers, center, seen Thursday ...
"Groundwater recharge at scale could solve up to 25% of the San Joaquin Valley's overdraft problem," said Joe Choperena, Sustainable Conservation's project director of water resources.
The San Joaquin Valley Air District is warning residents in the northern and western parts of the Valley, which includes Tulare County, that they may be impacted by poor air quality until Tuesday.
San Joaquin Valley lawmakers of both parties and local leaders say Newsom’s budget cut could endanger their communities, and that it signals a disparity in how the state distributes funding for ...