Harder faces Christmastime jabs over inflation, spending
With redistricting still in full swing and 2022 on the horizon, national Republicans aren't allowing Rep. Josh Harder to settle in for a long winter's nap.
Sources: Heng to abandon U.S. Senate bid for Nunes replacement run
Heng launched a campaign earlier in 2021 against Sen. Alex Padilla (D–Calif.). Her last bid, in 2018, saw Rep. Jim Costa (D–Fresno) deliver a 15-point thumping.
As Newsom’s new mask mandate arrives, one region scores exemption: the Bay Area.
Wednesday marked the return of a statewide universal mask mandate for Californians, unless you're working in the office or a gym in select Bay Area counties.
Deadlock nearly sent Visalia Unified seat to special election. Here’s who will fill last vacancy.
The field of four candidates applied to succeed resigned trustee Christopher Pope. Deadlock among the board nearly triggered a June special election for a five-month provisional term. At the last second, it was averted.
Borgeas kicks off Republican rush to replace Nunes, opens fundraising committee
The mad Republican rush is on in the San Joaquin Valley.
Clovis woman named to NASA’s newest class of astronauts
The Valley has something to cheer about as NASA launches its first astronaut candidate class in four years: a native daughter in the mix.
Nunes: Calif. Dems should listen to Granholm on keeping Diablo Canyon open
Diablo Canyon, California's lone, and soon-to-close, nuclear power plant, is quickly emerging as a political football in Washington with clamor growing to keep it open.
Tackling an affordability crisis, Harder presses Sacramento to drop Calif.’s pricey gas tax
Candidates jockeying for Congress next year are once again met with a key maxim: "It's the economy, stupid." One Valley Democrat is looking to get ahead of the curve.
Appeals court restores Calif. ban on high-capacity magazines
In the first of a number of California-centric gun control cases, an appeals court reversed a lower-court ruling that invalidated the ban on magazines with capacity of more than 10 rounds.
“Completely racist”: Calif. mapmakers hear blowback over Harder, allies’ Valley map gambit
"The dozens of calls from Stanislaus County over the last week needs to be called out for what they are: an attempt by a sitting Congressman to influence the redistricting process," a caller said.
