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Staff reports from The San Joaquin Valley Sun staff.
Calif. lawmakers target homeless camps along riverbeds
State lawmakers are targeting a different scourge tied to the state's homelessness crisis: riverbed encampments.
April 10, 2022
Spring Break Fever: No deal on gas relief as Calif. lawmakers hit the road
It could be at least weeks before Californians see that relief promised almost a month ago by state lawmakers.
April 10, 2022
Report: Clovis Unified teachers union effort may have to start over
A would-be affiliate of the powerful California Teachers Association may have to start gathering signatures again to force unionization at California's largest non-union school district.
April 5, 2022
Judge rejects Calif. law mandating racial, LGBT diversity on corporate boards
The lawsuit argued that the diversity-on-boards law violated the state’s constitutional equal protection clause.
April 3, 2022
Pelosi on Calif.’s sky-high gas prices: “How could this be?”
Pelosi mused about California gas prices during her Thursday briefing as the Biden administration struggles to confront the on-going pain at the pump.
March 31, 2022
Lawmaker pulls Calif. bill to mandate vaccines for all workers
The bill was a state-level proposal that resembled the Biden administration's overturned employer vaccine mandate.
March 29, 2022
Hog wild: SCOTUS to weigh in on Calif. law threatening “bacon crisis”
The U.S. Supreme Court is diving into a legal beef centering on how pork is raised.
March 28, 2022
Third member of 1976 Chowchilla school bus hijacking recommended for parole on 18th attempt
Frederick Newhall Woods, one of the three men who hijacked a school bus and kidnapped 26 children in…
March 28, 2022
Valley, SoCal grocery workers on verge of strike. Here are the stores that could be affected.
Thousands of central and Southern California grocery workers have voted to authorize their union to call a strike against several major supermarket chains as contract negotiations are set to resume this week.
March 27, 2022
Newsom’s prescription for gas pump pain? $400 per-car and freezing gas tax
Newsom's pitch for an $800 maximum gas rebate and freeze to gas tax rates is likely to cause a stir with leaders of the California legislature.
March 23, 2022