San Joaquin Valley (Calif)

California Moves Closer to Imposing Groundwater Use Limits

Officials will weigh whether to directly intervene, for the first time in state history, to stop aquifers from being wrung dry in the Central Valley.

Can Politics and Poverty in Fresno Change?

How do you change a place as polluted and desperately unequal as the San Joaquin Valley?

As the Rains Ease in California, Many See the Damage Rise

While the storm slowed on Saturday, flooded rivers forced some residents to evacuate, while others surveyed the destruction that was left behind.

Parched California Misses a Chance to Store More Rain Underground

Torrential rains could have helped to replenish depleted aquifers, but some say state bureaucracy, designed to distribute water fairly, has stood in the way.

Chowchilla Kidnapper Granted Parole

Frederick Woods, 70, was one of three men convicted in the 1976 kidnapping in Chowchilla, Calif. The children and the bus driver escaped after being buried in a trailer for 16 hours.