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Pregnant women are especially impacted by COVID-19 as hospitals are allowing only one person in the birthing room with the mother. FM89’s News Director Alice Daniel spoke with 26-year-old Breyonna Gaines who is due today. Gains is a doula and recently graduated from Fresno State. Here’s her perspective. https://www.kvpr.org/sites/kvpr/files/styles/big_story/public/202004/breyonna.jpg
Read More »Oildale Native Gerald Haslam Coined The Phrase ‘The Other California’ – He Tells Us Why
We’ve told you about a podcast we’re hoping to roll out sometime next year called The Other California. It will take a more intimate look at the part of the state where we live, the area that is often considered fly-over or drive-through territory. The phrase comes from a book …
Read More »70 Years After Fatal Plane Crash, A New Novel Tells The Victims’ Stories
Five years ago, Valley Public Radio brought you the story of one man’s search for names that it seemed had been lost to history. Fresno author Tim Z. Hernandez was searching for the families of the 28 passengers who died in a plane crash in western Fresno County in 1948. …
Read More »Mims Tells Trump She Wants To Cooperate With ICE
Local law enforcement and elected officials met with President Donald Trump today in Washington D.C. They discussed California’s sanctuary state policies and how they’ve impacted communities. As Valley Public Radio’s Monica Velez reports, one county sheriff thought the meeting was productive. Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims said she wants to …
Read More »‘Come aboard’ high-speed rail project, Jerry Brown tells Donald Trump
Ahead of President Donald Trump’s first visit to California this week, Gov. Jerry Brown solicited his support for the state’s troubled high-speed rail project. “You have lamented that ‘we don’t … Click to Continue »
Read More »As Southern California burns, state tells electric companies to shape up
With wildfires raging in Southern California, and Pacific Gas and Electric Co. facing scrutiny over the October wine country fires, state regulators ordered electric utilities Thursday to do a better … Click to Continue »
Read More »‘It was a calling to kill her.’ Woman tells police her mother was a satanic sacrifice
A 37-year-old Dos Palos woman told investigators she killed her mother earlier this month, stabbing the woman nearly two dozen times, as part of a “satanic” sacrifice, according to reports … Click to Continue »
Read More »NFL commissioner tells owners that ‘everyone should stand for the national anthem’
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell on Tuesday wrote a letter to all 32 league owners regarding the protests that have taken place during the national anthem, ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported. In … Click to Continue »
Read More »NFL commissioner tells owners that ‘everyone should stand for the national anthem’
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell on Tuesday wrote a letter to all 32 league owners regarding the protests that have taken place during the national anthem, ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported. In … Click to Continue »
Read More »Police say this Merced man assaulted an officer. His father tells a different story.
Merced police identified 31-year-old Carlos Maldonado as the man they say assaulted an officer Friday evening while officers served an arrest warrant for a robbery. Police named Maldonado as a … Click to Continue »
Read More »Bee exclusive: Affidavit tells how acquaintance of rampage shooter helped him escape motel killing
After a security guard was killed at Motel 6, an acquaintance of Kori Ali Muhammad tried to take evidence from the scene, but was stopped by hotel security and a … Click to Continue »
Read More »Seeing the forest for the trees: What one oak tells us about climate change
It is the time we wait for all winter, as spring’s first green leaves unfurl. The joy we feel is the thrill of a new season, kicked off by the … Click to Continue »
Read More »Kerry tells climate conference that the US will fight global warming, with Trump or without
Secretary of State John F. Kerry took the stage at United Nations climate talks in Morocco on Wednesday, seeking to reassure nervous negotiators that a groundbreaking agreement to fight global … Click to Continue »
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