Central Valley Research Institute

State water regulators propose major shift in conservation rules .

City Council awards $2.47 million contract for planning 14.4-mile pipeline. Water main will carry treated wastewater to irrigate golf courses, parks. #drought

Tiny bark beetles have decimated #SierraNevada forests, aided by California's severe four-year #drought that weakened pines and left them vulnerable to pests. Estimates of dead and dying trees near 60 million.

The top fifth of taxpayers are the only ones with real income growth from 1994 through 2013.

Joaquin Arambula of Kingsburg took office on Thursday to begin what could be among the shortest tenures in the Legislature’s history. He’ll have to focus almost immediately on keeping his seat through the June primary and November general election. #559vote

Most communities in the central San Joaquin Valley didn’t meet the conservation standards. As the nine-month period ended, only Kingsburg, Selma and Merced reached the targets set by the state beginning in June.

Westside farmers got dismal news Friday from the U.S. Bureau Reclamation when it announced a 5 percent water allocation for 2016. Farmers have endured a four-year drought with little to no water from the Central Valley Project.

Early education advocates said the report’s findings showed the state’s spending in early education remains far behind what it needs to be.

The citrus industry is asking California residents with outdoor orange or lemon trees to help them fight a potentially devastating pest.

Leaders of the City of Fresno have officially broken ground on one of the biggest public utilities projects in city history.

A report by the Brookings Institution indicates that the effects of the recovery have tended to benefit people with higher incomes, and whites to a greater degree than people of color.

Despite water concerns affecting the way residents and businesses especially agriculture live and operate in the central San Joaquin Valley, all indicators in 2015 showed signs of economic growth. Here’s a look at the year in business in the central San Joaquin Valley.

Northern California tree farmers are reporting that this year's crop is suffering due to the water shortage from the #drought.

No hard numbers are available for how many Californians have been made homeless by the drought. But the state Department of Housing and Community Development provided assistance to more than 4,000 farmworkers in 2014.