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The California Reporting Project has been gathering police misconduct files from departments around the state, including Bakersfield. The collaboration, which includes dozens of newsrooms including KVPR, is developing a web tool that will allow community members to explore misconduct files. They are also seeking feedback from the public to enhance …

Over a four year period, police officers in Bakersfield broke 45 bones in 31 people, and in no case did the officers involved in those encounters violate departmental policy. That’s the finding of an investigation from the California Reporting Project, a public-radio led collaboration looking into police misconduct. Molly Peterson, …

Say you’re taking a walk after work and you notice a strange smell in the air. Maybe it’s nothing, or maybe it’s a chemical or a spill of some sort. Should you report it? Although many cities offer reporting apps and services, not all are available in county areas. That’s …

Donald Munro is kind of a legend among arts lovers in Fresno. For 16 years, he covered theater, visual art, dance, classical music and more for the Fresno Bee. Now, he’s keeping his arts reporting alive with a member-supported website called The Munro Review . It’s kind of like public …

There’s a divide in Fresno. The north part of the city – the area above Shaw Avenue — has more parks, better schools. And the meat rendering plant? It’s in Southwest Fresno. The project has been in partnership with Arizona State University’s News Co/Lab to improve transparency in journalism, and …

Fresno Bee reporter Mackenzie Mays is wrapping up a nine month long reporting project on the state of sex education in local schools. While the project has highlighted the many ways local districts haven’t been providing comprehensive sex education, it also sparked a controversy, and personal attacks against Mays from …

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Merced Connect is available for Apple iPhones and Android devices It’s free and is meant to make reporting a problem faster Also offers phones numbers, volunteering options … Click to Continue »

The California Highway Patrol confirmed two people are dead following a head-on collision on Highway 140 near Mariposa. The accident was reported about 1:45 p.m. east of Briceburg. Another person … Click to Continue »

The California Highway Patrol is reporting a head-on collision on Highway 140 east of Briceburg caused at least one fatality. The accident was reported about 1:45 p.m. The CHP reported … Click to Continue »

Thursday Fresno’s city council approved the purchase and use of 400 body cameras for the city’s police officers. Fresno’s police chief says he’s focused on the transparency of law enforcement and he’s working on new protocol for documenting any use of force situations. In addition to the body cameras at …

Diana Marcum, an LA Times writer, has been awarded the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing. Her piece on the California drought, beat out a Boston Globe article on a rare whale and a New Yorker recreation of a young man’s imprisonment. "Scene from California’s Dust Bowl" covered farming issues …