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KVPR News Podcast
Local news reports and interviews from KVPR, covering issues in Central California.
Latest Episodes
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On the part of the community of Rock Haven that received forest thinning treatments, the Creek Fire lost enough intensity to spare mature trees and historic homes.
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In many ways, climate change has already hit home here in the San Joaquin Valley—especially for the agricultural industry, which produces as much as a…
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TED Talks, the popular videos about “ideas worth spreading,” invited Fresno’s Irma Olguin Jr. to take the stage this year to share her ideas about how to…
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Clovis native Chris Colfer found fame as an actor on the hit show Glee, and as a New York Times best-selling author of young adult novels like the "Land…
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In 2014, California’s state legislature passed the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA), a sweeping law with the goal of balancing the amount of…
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The clock is ticking to redraw legislative boundaries following the 2020 census. This week California’s redistricting commission released a preliminary…
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Fresno poet Mai Der Vang looks back on a dark chapter of history in her new collection “Yellow Rain.” Hmong refugees fleeing Laos at the end of the…
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For more than two decades the small Tulare County community of Tooleville has been without a secure supply of safe drinking water. The simplest solution…
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The tricolored blackbird, native almost exclusively to Central California, gained protection under the state’s Endangered Species Act in 2018. Since then,…
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The California Reporting Project has been gathering police misconduct files from departments around the state, including Bakersfield. The collaboration,…