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The measure is Gov. Newsom’s response to the growing national fight over redistricting, sparked by President Trump’s push for Republicans in Texas to redraw their maps. If Proposition 50 passes, the state’s political map will look different from Sonoma down to San Diego.
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If Prop 50 passes, Republican Congressman David Valadao, who has long represented one of the richest agricultural belts in the country, would be one of five Republicans whose seat could flip to Democratic control. -
KVPR profiles local business owners and three of the key ingredients to celebrating the traditional Mexican holiday that honors the dead. -
This marks the largest ancestral land return in California’s central Sierra Nevada. -
Federal immigration enforcement is contributing to slow Fresno County population growth, state demographer says. -
Sami Hamdi was detained Sunday by ICE officers at San Francisco International Airport, according to federal officials. He was booked into the Golden State Annex ICE facility in the city of McFarland.
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The Modesto FocusThe meteoric rise in recent years of Legacy Alliance Outreach, a nonprofit once idolized by elected and civic leaders in Modesto and Stanislaus County and backed by millions of dollars in public money, stands in stark contrast to its dramatic fall. -
AP Photo / Annika HammerschlagCoupled with exertion, extreme heat exposes agricultural workers to more health risks, including miscarriages, stillbirths, preterm births and low birth weight in infants. -
Alessandro Bogliari/UnsplashFresno built cricket pitches in two city parks this past summer. -
Marcio Jose Sanchez/APThe Department of Justice announced Friday it will monitor polling sites in six jurisdictions next month: Passaic County, New Jersey, and Los Angeles, Orange, Kern, Riverside and Fresno counties in California “to ensure transparency, ballot security, and compliance with federal law.”
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The intersection has gotten a dubious title: ‘Friant Roulette.’
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Their biggest hit "Come and Get Your Love" has had a resurgence in popularity in recent years, thanks to movies and TV commercials. -
The rural community of Academy, nestled near the foothills east of Clovis, was home to the county's first secondary school. -
Locals feared the worst in July 1965 when the Hell's Angels came to Bass Lake for a "picnic," as documented in Hunter S. Thompson's first book.
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