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California lawmakers alarmed by the treatment of people brought to hospitals by federal immigration agents want to strengthen protections for detained patients receiving care at medical facilities, including by making it easier for their families and attorneys to find them.
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Researchers at UC Merced and across California are trying to inform residents about the harmful effects of dust on health and the climate as the volume of dust continues to increase in parts of the state and in the San Joaquin Valley. -
California for now has prevented the Trump administration from changing priorities in homelessness funding to favor temporary shelters rather than long-term housing. -
With costs sometimes exceeding $100,000 per student, small districts are often under pressure to close schools. -
As election season approaches, here is what voters must know about proposed identity verification rules that could take effect later this year. -
The farm was established as an agricultural experimentation station by UC Merced in 2022 and was meant to be a home for research primarily on climate efficiency, engineering and technology.
How transitional kindergarten is shaping young children in the San Joaquin Valley
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Israel Cardona Hernandez/KVPRA couple in the Bay Area was unable to realize their dream of starting their own Mexican food business until they arrived in Fresno. -
Rosita Ventura-Gomez / The Merced FOCUSFor decades, stories about underground tunnels have floated around Chowchilla, passed down through families, shared between neighbors and debated online. -
Larry Valenzuela / CalMattersIndia’s most wanted criminal network has a presence in California’s Central Valley, and it’s shaking down members of the diaspora. -
Israel Cardona Hernandez/KVPRIt’s one of two competing measures that would renew a half-cent sales tax in order to fund transportation projects throughout the county.
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These matriarchal rodents often have bloody succession wars to replace their queen. But in a colony in California, Queen Tere ceded the throne to her daughter, Arwen, without violence.
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The first non-native settlers in the Bakersfield area were from Mexico, in the area known as Rio Bravo, or Old Panama. -
Archibald Brabazon Sparrow Acheson, the 4th Earl of Gosford, was a member of the British House of Lords and played an important role in the coronation of Edward the VII in 1901. He also owned a large farm near Bakersfield. -
Yamato Colony near Livingston was founded by and for Japanese American farmers.
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