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Is Rural Kings County Ready for a High-Tech Town?
Kings County is known for farmed products like cotton and milk, as well as prisons and the Naval Air Station in Lemoore. Now, a Southern California group wants to build a brand-new high-tech town in...
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Update: Central Valley Bus Crash Killed 4, Not 5
Update, 11 a.m. Wednesday: A crash that nearly sliced a bus in half on a central California highway killed four people, not the initial report of five, a local sheriff said Wednesday. Merced County...
View ArticleCentral Valley Farmers Paid to Grow Wildlife Habitat
California’s drought is taking its toll on wildlife. Years of sub-par precipitation have cut the amount of water available for wildlife refuges that supply critical habitat and food for waterfowl and...
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Catching the Perfect Wave …100 Miles From the Ocean
Eleven-time world champion surfer Kelly Slater dropped a bomb last December when he released a video of an 8-foot man-made wave in what looks like an old ski pond nowhere near an ocean. “This is our...
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How a Sheep Farmer Saves Water Using Shipping Containers
On Golden Valley Farm north of Madera, Mario Daccarett’s employees are milking 500 sheep in rounds of 12. As they hook up long clear suction cups to each animal’s teats, milk drains down tubes into a...
View ArticleResidents in Drought-Stricken Town Finally Start To Get Running Water
CA Water Boards on Twitter On hand today for the first connection of East Porterville residents to Porterville water. http://water.ca.gov/waterconditions/porterville.cfm …pic.twitter.com/HPidEGaekV...
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A Tale of Two Farm Towns: How the Central Valley Is Torn Over Marijuana
Part I: Huron Loud music and the smell of roasted corn on the cob fill the air at the Friday night street festival in the small Fresno County town of Huron. Kids play on a bounce house slide, while...
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Why These Central Valley Republicans Stand by Donald Trump
Politically speaking, the Central Valley is a pretty red region in our mostly blue state. So, with the most controversial candidate in memory at the top of the GOP ticket, I wondered how Republican...
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Is California’s Ag Industry Worried About a Labor Shortage Under Trump?
In the Central Valley there’s a bumper sticker you see all over the place. It’s shaped like California, and reads “My job depends on Ag.” In California, that agriculture depends on immigrant labor....
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Merced Sheriff’s Posse Will Be Riding High at Inauguration
The Merced County Sheriff’s Posse has been riding since the 1940s. The group appears in parades around California, and this week members are heading to Washington, D.C. — with 14 horses in tow — for...
View ArticleWhy Trump’s Rejection of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Hurts California Farmers
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer announced Monday that the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is dead. A memorandum signed by President Donald Trump withdrawing from the proposed trade deal with 12...
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Central Valley’s Sinking Land Threatens Vital Canals
FRESNO — Land in the Central Valley is sinking so much from over-pumping of groundwater during the drought that officials said Thursday they will press for new laws to limit drilling. The sinking...
View ArticleCalifornia Prisons Fight to Reduce Dangerous ‘Valley Fever’ Infections Among...
“Just One Breath”: Read More Investigations About Valley Fever The “Just One Breath” project results from an innovative reporting venture, the Center for Health Journalism Collaborative, which...
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Long Persecuted, Assyrians Find Safe Haven in the Central Valley
Inside the Assyrian American Civic Club of Turlock there’s a large banquet hall, a catering company and a radio station that broadcasts Assyrian music. “The music that you’re hearing, this is the...
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Where’s My Rep? Tulare Joins Vigil for Congress Members Missing From Town Halls
Tulare isn’t known much for demonstrations, but last Thursday the small Central Valley farming town became the latest stop in a campaign to call out members of Congress who were skipping town hall...
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Russia Controversy Follows Congressman Nunes to Fresno
Republican Congressman Devin Nunes has gotten a lot of flak for his role in the U.S. House Intelligence Committee investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. And protesters...
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Longtime Citizen Struggles to Bring Yemeni Family to Central Valley
La Buena Vista is a corner store with a butcher in the back, a taco truck out front and a stray dog for a mascot. It’s the type of place that sells everything from lotto scratchers to engine oil to...
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Preserving the Legacy of Fresno’s Hmong B-Boys
Documentary filmmaker Christopher Woon-Chen says he wanted to understand his own relationship with hip-hop culture and breakdancing. He’s Chinese-American and he asked himself, “Can Asian-Americans be...
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Demand for Immigration Lawyers Surges in Central Valley
Justin Sweeney’s desk is piled with file folders and law books. He’s been practicing immigration law for five years, and so far this has been the busiest of his career — he’s seen a 400 percent...
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Immortalized by Woody Guthrie, ‘Deportees’ Who Died in Plane Crash Are...
So many artists — from Bruce Springsteen to Bob Dylan — have recorded Woody Guthrie’s famous ballad “Deportee,” about one of the worst airplane disasters in California history. But a big piece of the...
View ArticleWater Wars, the Sequel
House Republicans are trying to drastically change the way California uses water. H.R. 23 would send more water to farms, and less to wildlife refuges. In a strongly-worded statement, Attorney General...
View ArticleKey California Farm District Rejects Governor’s Delta Tunnels Plan
FRESNO — The board of the nation’s largest irrigation district on Tuesday rejected participation in Gov. Jerry Brown’s $16 billion plan to build two giant tunnels to re-engineer California’s...
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California’s First Female State Senator Refused to Be Ignored
Women in the California Capitol have been speaking up recently, calling out an atmosphere of sexual harassment. They’re part of a long line of women in Sacramento who refuse to be ignored, including...
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A Day of the Dead Tradition Blooms in the Central Valley
In some California communities with roots in Latin America, especially Mexico, the last days of October are spent getting ready for Day of the Dead. That means making altars for loved ones and covering...
View ArticleAg Secretary Shows a Softer Side on Immigration in Talks With California Farmers
When Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue was governor of Georgia, he enacted one of the harshest immigration laws in the nation. The crackdown on undocumented immigrants worked so well to drive them...
View ArticleCentral Valley Family Creates Legacy Through Frozen Food Factory
Their products are in convenience stores, school cafeterias, and family freezers across the country.
View ArticleCentral Valley Punjabi and Hmong Communities Excited by New Ballot Rules
Voting for speakers of six minority languages just got a little bit easier in California.
View ArticleDreamers From Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s District Call On the GOP To Step Up
In and around Porterville, Dreamers angrily question why McCarthy and fellow congressmen from California’s Central Valley aren’t pushing for a legislative fix.
View ArticleHealthy to Eat, Unhealthy to Grow: Strawberries Embody the Contradictions of...
In Monterey and Santa Cruz counties alone, strawberry acreage more than tripled and production increased tenfold from 1960 to 2014.
View ArticleState Assembly Rejects Bill to Increase Pesticide Fines
'The California Legislature has failed to stand up for some of our most vulnerable populations,' said farmworker advocate Paul Towers.
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