San Joaquin News

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Today Show co-anchor Jenna Wolfe kissing her catch on the California Delta. Doug Stamm NBC's Today Show makes a stop in our own back yard.

San Joaquin Valley farmers could swap water more easily under a bill floated Thursday before a Senate panel.

It was bound to happen: Some people who aren't at high risk for swine flu complications got the much-in-demand vaccine.

Two men were injured Monday night in a south Stockton shooting, police reported.

Lawmakers moved closer Tuesday in their effort to alleviate California's water woes but passage of a comprehensive fix was far from assured.

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Sales-tax revenues in the central San Joaquin Valley fell sharply in the second quarter of this year, marking some of the worst declines in decades and posing scary budget threats for local government.

Growers in the eight-county San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District, which includes Merced County, have until January 2010 to replace older, high-polluting, Tier 0 diesel engines greater than 50 horsepower with EPA-certified Tier 3 or Tier 4 engines.

Legislation designed to provide long-term solutions to California's water challenges is scheduled to go before both houses of the Legislature, although the prospects for passage remain uncertain.

A public power authority has decided to build a 565-megawatt natural gas-fired electric generating plant in Parlier, despite opposition from neighbors.

The San Joaquin River's first pulse of restoration water -- moving slowly about 45 miles downstream of Friant Dam -- soon may hit a temporary block.

California lawmakers face an epic moment in the state's wrangling over water. They now are mulling an imperfect but heavily negotiated package of reforms for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and the state's use of water.

Fresno State President John Welty on Monday urged faculty to look beyond budget problems and turn adversity into opportunity -- partly by using furlough days to feed the hungry on the Valley's west side.

The "Steve Peace death march," so-named for the California legislator who pushed a massive overhaul of the state's electric power system through the Legislature in 1996, occupies a special niche in Capitol lore.

Over 200 students, business and community representatives, members of faith-based organizations, educators, school administrators, law enforcement and local government officials, gathered on Saturday, October 24, 2009, for Stockton's Promise Education Summit.

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With a handheld video camera, a computer and 800 cows, Barbara Martin is letting the world into her life as a dairy operator.

Representatives from state government and all eight San Joaquin Valley counties gathered Friday in Fresno to talk about common solutions to common problems, and to hear from two Republican candidates vying to become California's next governor.

A group that wants to start the first statewide kindergarten-through-12th grade online charter school has blanketed school districts throughout California - including many in the East Bay - with petitions seeking approval for its plan.