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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 would be to connect the town’s water system to that of its neighbor, the City of Exeter. It would take less than a mile of …

Contaminated water has flown from faucets in Tooleville, a small community in Tulare County, since the 1980s. “The Great Water Divide: California’s Water Crisis” is a new documentary that follows the residents’ efforts to connect to neighboring Exeter’s water supply. FM89’s Kathleen Schock spoke to the filmmaker, Casey Beck, and …

A few weeks ago, the Fresno Police Department put out its end-of-year data on crimes in the city over the last year, and many instances of crime went down from 2017 to 2018. For example, homicides were down 43 percent, there were about a third fewer shootings, and violent crimes …

As the Trump administration moves to roll back ambitious vehicle-emissions targets, California and several other states that rely on those standards to achieve their clean air goals have enlisted an … Click to Continue »

UC Merced is partnering with the Merced County Fair to support Mercy Medical Center’s “We Care Wednesday” Community Food Drive. Anyone can join the fight against hunger and gain free … Click to Continue »

Authorities are investigating the death of a 38-year-old Modesto man in the custody of Stanislaus County Sheriff’s deputies Saturday. According to a news release, the man, whose name is not … Click to Continue »

Leaders from across the central San Joaquin Valley gathered Friday to promise people here they won’t give up the fight for Temperance Flat reservoir, one day after the California Water … Click to Continue »

Gov. Jerry Brown said Tuesday that California won’t accept scaled-back federal fuel-economy standards and vowed to keep President Donald Trump tied up in court over the proposal until long after … Click to Continue »

With the Trump administration’s announcement Monday that it will roll back the nation’s fuel-efficiency targets and might try to force California to do the same, car consumers who care about … Click to Continue »

A possible clash between the U.S. government and California over future fuel-economy standards raises the question of whether automakers one day might have to build different sets of the same … Click to Continue »

The voice of fifth grader Nate Dimple Alvarez offered testimony Saturday about the fears that have gripped students in the wake of deadly school shootings nationwide. Alvarez, a student at … Click to Continue »

About nine out of every 10 people charged with a felony or misdemeanor in Merced County in 2017 were not able to afford an attorney. Nearly eight of those individuals … Click to Continue »

It wasn’t long after the invention of the internet that scientists discovered the potential for using computing power as a citizen science tool. One of the earliest examples was a computer program developed in the 1990s that allowed users to search for life on other planets. Now a new collaboration …