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On this week’s Valley Edition , we continue our series looking at how people are processing the magnitude of this pandemic. Today we hear from 79-year-old Dezie Woods-Jones. She’s the state president of Black Women Organized for Political Action and a former vice mayor of Oakland. Woods-Jones lives in Madera …

Fresno City Councilmember Esmeralda Soria grew up in a farm worker family. That legacy wasn’t lost on her on Tuesday when a well-known labor activist and civil rights leader endorsed her 2020 campaign for Congress. In the 1960s, Dolores Huerta co-founded the organization that would become the United Farm Workers …

On April 13th 1997, Jocelyn Dettloff’s life changed forever. On a camping trip in Sub-Saharan Africa, an accident left her paralyzed. It also put her life on a new path, inspiring others, as she describes in her book “It Rained in the Desert: One Woman’s Story of Spirit and Resilience” …

Kern County Supervisors have adopted new district lines following a legal settlement with the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund. The group sued the county alleging the 2011 supervisorial redistricting disenfranchised Latino voters by drawing lines that divided communities like Arvin and Delano, diluting their political power. In February …

In its latest legal salvo against California, the Department of Justice announced Monday it is filing suit against what it branded an “extreme’’ state law that tries to give California … Click to Continue »

In February a U.S. District Court Judge ruled in favor of a Latino civil rights group in a suit challenging the way the county drew supervisorial district lines in 2011. In the suit, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund argued that by splitting eastern Kern County cities between …

A federal judge has ruled in favor of a Latino civil rights group in a lawsuit against Kern County over voting rights. The ruling found county supervisorial districts that were created in 2011 violated the Voting Rights Act because they intentionally divided Latino communities between two districts. The decision is …

The late Denard Davis was known as “Mr. D” throughout the Merced County community. Along with his work as a teacher at Tenaya Junior High School and later as assistant … Click to Continue »

Atwater appeared to be on its way to having districts for local elections until a vote this week put the change on hold, if not ended it altogether. The City … Click to Continue »

UC Merced performers rehearse “For Colored Girls” on Thursday, May 4, 2017. The free performance is 5 p.m. Tuesday, May 9, at Merced Multicultural Arts Center, 645 W. Main St. … Click to Continue »

Annual victims’ rights ceremony at Courthouse Park … Click to Continue »

On a gloomy, drizzly Thursday at Courthouse Park in Merced, mothers whose children were killed shared advice for families coping with such tragedies. “Don’t give up,” said Marylene Riley, whose … Click to Continue »

Courthouse park in Merced this week will be a place for those to remember and honor loved ones they lost due to violent crimes. The Merced County District’s Attorney’s office … Click to Continue »