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.

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…

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…

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…

In 2014, California’s state legislature passed the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA), a sweeping law with the goal of balancing the amount of…

The clock is ticking to redraw legislative boundaries following the 2020 census. This week California’s redistricting commission released a preliminary…

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…

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…

The tricolored blackbird, native almost exclusively to Central California, gained protection under the state’s Endangered Species Act in 2018. Since then,…

The California Reporting Project has been gathering police misconduct files from departments around the state, including Bakersfield. The collaboration,…