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The money the city misspent was from Measure V, a 30-year, half-cent sales tax, estimated to generate over $450 million in funding for countywide transportation maintenance and improvements.
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Although grizzly populations can still be found in several Western states, in California they exist only as a symbol: moving across a patch of grass on the state flag. -
Shavana Trejo discovered boxing after struggles early on in life. -
Facing a growing budget deficit, Fresno Unified School District, California’s third-largest, finalized hundreds of layoff notices, eliminating positions tied to mental health, foster youth services and chronic absenteeism interventions. -
Families in the unincorporated community of Tombstone Territory endured years of unsafe and unreliable water supply. -
Researchers are warning that the U.S. is experiencing a reading recession, a slide that predates the COVID-19 pandemic.
How transitional kindergarten is shaping young children in the San Joaquin Valley
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Rachel Livinal/KVPRSome counties, like Merced, are urging people to mail in their ballots before election day or drop it off in other ways. -
SJV WaterAssurances that a “highly efficient hybrid cooling system” will keep a proposed AI data center from sucking up all the water in the already overdrafted Indian Wells Valley fell flat with residents who’ve bombarded the state with negative comments on the proposal. -
Samantha Rangel/KVPRA “founding convention” was held in early May for the launch of an effort called “United San Joaquin.” -
Fresno State Asian American Studies ProgramIt’s the first university in the San Joaquin Valley to offer degrees in the field.
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Get ready for a biology lesson. Certain plants have extra sets of chromosomes. And it turns out, it's a useful trait for a species facing a dramatic event like climate change.
2026 Election
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The candidates represent how far Sikhs have come after settling roots largely in places like California for the last century.
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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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