While Cesar E. Chavez and Dolores Huerta's names were once inseparable, elected leaders and community members are initiating efforts to rename some buildings, schools and streets after Huerta alone.
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An analysis by The California Newsroom — a collaborative of public media outlets, including NPR — found over 65 locations in the Golden State bearing the name of the late labor leader.
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Allegations of sexual misconduct against late civil rights leader and founder of the United Farm Workers, Cesar E. Chavez, broke out in the open Wednesday after one of his closest allies in the movement spoke out.
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High school students all over California walked out of class in protest over the Trump administration's aggressive immigration enforcement. Police in two cities, Clovis and Los Angeles, issued warnings about potential arrests to adults who helped them.
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Budget analysts say the high-speed rail project faces billions of dollars in funding gaps and no clear path to reach Los Angeles or San Francisco. The fate of its first Central Valley segment is also in jeopardy.
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Young people in Central California are modernizing an old community-savings system by moving it from cash to mobile apps.
How Merced College handled multiple complaints against one of its longest-serving deans – and the fallout it caused for students, faculty and staff.
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After a handful of crashes, Fresno city leaders are making changes to the intersection of Friant Road and Shepherd Avenue in North Fresno.
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California built a first-in-the-nation system to police refinery profits during price spikes. Regulators delayed it for five years.
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The board meeting marked the first time leaders from the district responded to an investigative series by KVPR and The Merced FOCUS.
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The Fresno County Superintendent of Schools has unveiled a mobile dispatch training center for high school students in Fresno and Madera counties. It’s one of only two programs of its kind in the country.
Salganea taiwanensis, a kind of wood-feeding cockroach, may engage in what's known as pair bonding, a new study finds.
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Located near the Grapevine in Kern County, this pueblo became a rancho in the Mexican-era and is the oldest Western settlement in the southern San Joaquin Valley.
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County islands are unincorporated areas surrounded by land that is part of an incorporated city. These "islands" often lack city-level infrastructure and services.
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Today's Stockdale Country Club began as the Tevis family estate, and was named for a Tevis relative, Sir Edmund Stockdale, the Lord Mayor of London.
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