Central Valley

A Central Valley man convicted of torturing and burying a young man alive in 1980 will be paroled in days.

David Weidert, a Central Valley man convicted of torturing and burying a young man alive in 1980 will be paroled in just days. Janelle Wang reports.

The coronavirus is spreading rapidly in California’s San Joaquin Valley and filling its hospitals

A poultry-processing plant where at least 358 workers have tested positive for the coronavirus and eight have died was ordered by county health officials in California to temporarily shut down, officials said Thursday.

Two cities in California’s Central Valley defied the state’s health orders by allowing all businesses to open during the pandemic, and now Governor Newsom is withholding money from them.

Central California has become a coronavirus hot spot, with infection rates ranging higher than the rest of the state.

As coronavirus cases spike in California’s Central Valley, the state will send “strike teams” to help staff hospitals in the vast agricultural region and spend $52 million to speed up testing and help infected people quarantine so they don’t infect others, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday. The aid is going to eight counties that are home to more than 4…

A federal court temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s efforts to pump more water to the agricultural Central Valley, which critics said would threaten endangered species and salmon runs.

High Speed Rail’s latest construction spending numbers show that the promise of “rammed up construction” over the summer of 2019 barely materialized, putting the overall project further behind schedule and threatening to derail High Speed Rail from a federal deadline which could jeopardize final completion.

Spending and construction on California’s High Speed Rail project slowed down once again last month. Senior investigative reporter Stephen Stock sat down with CEO Brian Kelly to find out how high speed rail can possibly get back on track.

More than 1.5 million people in Northern California were in the dark Thursday, most for a second day, after the state’s largest utility cut off electricity to more customers to prevent wind-fueled wildfires amid dry weather and strong winds sweeping through the region. Pacific Gas and Electric cut power to more than 300,000 people in the San Francisco Bay Area...

Power to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses went out early Wednesday, affecting millions of people in California. Pacific Gas and Electric Co. said a forecast of extreme wind and dry weather has created fire danger of unprecedented scope, prompting it to initiate the largest preventive outage in state history to reduce the risk of wildfires sparked by faulty...

If you were in Solano or Yolo counties Saturday you couldn’t have missed it. Severe thunderstorm and tornado warnings were active from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. from a storm dropping nickel sized hail and at least one tornado, according to the Sacramento office of the National Weather Service.

A 54-year-old man serving a life sentence for a murder in Santa Clara County is accused of killing a fellow inmate at a prison in the Central Valley on Tuesday night, according to state corrections officials.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom reached a deal with apartment owners and developers Friday on legislation that would cap how rapidly rents can rise as the state grapples with a housing crisis.

A California man who spent more than 14 years in prison on terrorism charges has been released from prison, nearly two weeks after a federal judge overturned his conviction.

A California man who spent more than 14 years in prison on terrorism charges has been released from prison, nearly two weeks after a federal judge overturned his conviction.

Bay Area residents may catch the faint smell of smoke this weekend from a wildfire burning in southern Oregon. Starting early Saturday evening, the Bay Area will see impacts from the 9000-acre Milepost 97 fire near Canyonville, Oregon, according to the Bay Area Air Quality Management District.

The top private contractor for California’s High Speed Rail project now finds itself at the center of a state investigation for allegedly giving sweetheart deals. This is just the latest development in problems between High Speed Rail and the private contractor that is running the project — problems first exposed by NBC Bay Area’s Investigative Unit.

The Trump administration will not immediately give $1 billion it revoked from California’s high-speed rail project to another project, according to a legal agreement reached Wednesday between the two.