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Valley Children’s President/CEO Todd Suntrapak and Fresno Chaffee Zoo CEO Scott Barton discuss the hospital’s new sponsorship of the zoo’s popular giraffe-feeding terrace on Friday, April 14, 2017. … Click to Continue »

Kite enthusiasts from Merced were “chasing the wind” on Sunday in Livingston, hoping for their 32-foot-long manta ray and 75-foot-long octopus kites to make it into the air. Two brothers, … Click to Continue »

Asthma sufferer Fawn Olvera, 68, of Clovis, wears a mask to go outside and uses a nebulizer machine to inhale her medicine to help her breathe in the Valley’s polluted air. … Click to Continue »

Central Valley Community Bank will host its 11th annual free document-shredding events at banks throughout the San Joaquin Valley April 11 through May 24. The Merced branch, located at 3337 … Click to Continue »

One way San Joaquin Valley resident can help improve air quality is to make sure their vehicle’s emissions meet state standards. Merced County residents have a chance Saturday to have … Click to Continue »

Dr. Antonio Avalos, chairman of the Economics Department at Fresno State, talks about his report citing the university’s economic influence in the Valley. … Click to Continue »

With ample rainfall and an above-average snowpack, west side San Joaquin Valley growers were hoping the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation would give them a 100 percent allocation of water this … Click to Continue »

President Donald Trump has introduced what many in Washington D.C. call his ‘skinny budget’. It’s the new president’s first public step laying out where he thinks federal spending should, and shouldn’t go. The budget is also a reflection of the administration’s policy goals and priorities, and includes big cuts to …

A new analysis from the Public Policy Institute of California maps child poverty across California , and estimates Valley children would be much worse off without social safety net programs. About one in four children under five years old in the Central Valley and Sierra live in poverty, according to …

For a while, it seemed as though California’s five-year drought would never lift. But thanks to the winter’s deluge of rain and a record-setting snowpack, the San Joaquin Valley’s reservoirs … Click to Continue »

The new documentary ” Water & Power: A California Heist ” takes a look at past and current water wars in California. It’s told through the eyes of Valley voices like journalist Mark Arax and Bakersfield Californian Columnist Lois Henry. “This is a very serious issue,” says the films director …

Norma Barragan recalls that, growing up in South Merced, her family’s small home was, at times, extra crowded. Her nieces and nephews lived with them, putting 10 people in a … Click to Continue »

Twice as many stores in the Central Valley sell flavored cigarettes and alcohol than sell fresh fruits and vegetables. That’s the finding of a new state health survey. The Healthy Stores for a Healthy Community survey, released Wednesday, found that it’s far easier to find tobacco or alcohol than it …