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For their episode on April 24, 2020, producers of the WNYC Studios show Science Friday turned their focus to the fungal disease valley fever – its origins and effects on the body, as well as burgeoning research and hope for new treatments. The show features interviews with experts and others …

For their episode on April 24, 2020, producers of the show Science Friday turned their focus to the fungal disease valley fever – its origins and effects on the body, as well as burgeoning research and hope for new treatments. The show features interviews with experts and others affected by …

This year is the 80th anniversary of John Steinbeck’s book, “The Grapes of Wrath.” In his novel, Steinbeck profiles the Joad family as they travel from Oklahoma to California, escaping the Dust Bowl, in search of work. Many families made this journey during the Depression era. In some communities, these …

While some valley congressional districts flipped from red to blue, much of the state’s remaining republican strongholds are still in the San Joaquin Valley — particularly Kern, Madera and Tulare Counties. This has a lot to do with the Dust Bowl, and the migrants who came to California in the …

California Assemblyman Eduardo Garcia watched with ill-disguised frustration as a hearing aimed at expediting state projects to restore habitat and control dust storms at the shrinking Salton Sea instead dissolved … Click to Continue »

Dust Bowl Brewing Company produced its first beer in May of 2009 with two employees, the owner and the brewer. Within a short time they opened the Dust Bowl Taproom … Click to Continue »

Where water should be flowing, a dry irrigation ditch is filled instead with a row of shacks–yet another sign of the drought. "Because of the problem right now that the state is facing of water deliveries not coming in where the farms [could be] producing crops and could more or less put people to …

Two drivers were taken to the hospital with minor injuries Tuesday morning as winds gusting up to 40 miles per hour blew dust across roads in the Valley. At one point the visibility was so bad it was impossible to see on CA-180 between Kerman and Mendota. Patrick Nelson is working on this …