Hundreds of cars lined up on a rough road next to Planada’s Bear Creek Apartments Thursday afternoon, the site of the first mobile COVID vaccination clinic for Merced County ag and farm
workers.
Many people dream of having a home. A place to call their own and a space to create memories that will last a lifetime. For Nataly Herrera and her family, that dream will soon become reality.
The housing complex, still under construction in Porterville, California, will be called Nupchi Xo’ Oy. The name pays tribute to Joseph Darrel Vera, who worked to bring affordable housing to members of the Tule River Tribe.
Residents of Fairmead, California worry they are on the brink of losing water service, as the town’s only community well shows signs it may fail before a new one can be built.
After more than a decade of East Orosi residents struggling without clean drinking water, the State Water Board on Tuesday took a huge and critically necessary step by issuing a mandatory consolidation order for a neighboring district to connect East Orosi to safe water, ushering in the long-overdue promise of safe drinking water for the marginalized Tulare County community.
Lindsay administration, council agree to repay $3.7 million in misspent housing grant funds, some of which went to city employees and employee relatives through 2004 and 2008
