On this week's Valley Edition: We check in with community organizations to see if the statewide effort to fix vaccination disparities is reflected in rural farm towns. Plus, we discuss our collective trauma as a result of living through a deadly pandemic. How might it shape our mental health in the future? And we look back; it’s been one year since COVID-19 upended our lives. Listen to these stories and more in the podcast above.

On this week's Valley Edition: Due to federal funding, the pandemic has created an unlikely opportunity for new homeless housing in Fresno. We look at some of the programs in place. Plus, we tell you about a Microsoft pilot program that KVPR is a part of to preserve and expand local news around the country. And arts critic Donald Munro gives us an update on the Tower Theater sale. Listen to these stories and more in the podcast above.

On this week's Valley Edition: Thousands of migrant workers come to California each year to do temporary labor in the Valley and send money back to their families. What has the pandemic been like for them? We go to Delano to talk to some workers from Mexico who have been living in a hotel for the past four months. And, we speak with four registered nurses who work in ICUs throughout the San Joaquin Valley about the toll of treating COVID-19 patients over the last year. Plus, the Tulare County

On this week's Valley Edition: Farm workers across the San Joaquin Valley are showing high levels of interest in getting the COVID-19 vaccine but they say information about where to go is scarce. But there is plenty of medical mistrust within communities of color and the reasons are complex. We talk about why. And, in this week’s Storycorps San Joaquin, Gabe Mora interviews his life partner Don Simmons, a Fresno State professor and historic preservation enthusiast. The two talk about building

On this week's Valley Edition: How the business community in Fresno’s Tower District has adjusted to the pandemic, and the incoming tenants that could change the face of the neighborhood. Plus, Black business owners are finding strength through community as they work to adapt their operating models to the pandemic. We also hear about the Fresno State Art Song Festival, where poetry, musical composition and singing converge. And the Southern Sierra Miwuk Nation continues its petition for federal

On this week's Valley Edition: A small initiative in Fresno County to help a few elderly women stay safe during the pandemic keeps expanding. Now, Save Las Senioras delivers groceries to over 60 recipients in rural areas. Plus, we remember Cookseyville, one of the Valley’s most celebrated Black settlements. And one year after fire destroyed Porterville’s library, a handful of tiny libraries are springing up in its place.

On this week's Valley Edition: A new study out of UC San Francisco shows which essential workers are most at risk of death due to COVID-19. At the top of the list: food and agriculture. Plus, what are the limits of free speech, especially when that right collides with the spread of potentially dangerous misinformation on social media? And we hear about the Fresno Philharmonic’s Digital Masterworks Series. Listen to these stories and more in the podcast above.

On this week's Valley Edition: Restaurants have had to ride the wave of pandemic shutdowns and reopenings for the past ten months. We look at how one business in Madera is surviving and what’s happening to its employees. Plus, when a local newspaper closes shop, how does that affect voting behaviors and political corruption? And we’ve got another segment of StoryCorps San Joaquin. A grandson remembers his pioneering grandmother who spent her summers living and working in a fire lookout station.

When wildfires burn in our national parks, we naturally worry about the forest. But what about the photographs, maps and documents that tell the stories of our parks? How do we keep those important archives safe? FM89’s Alice Daniel spoke with Emily Lin, librarian and head of digital curation at the University of California Merced about moving records from Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks to the university during last September's intense wildfires.

On this week's Valley Edition: The Mariposa County Unified School District is ahead of the curve in vaccinating educators and keeping classrooms open during the pandemic. Plus we talk about the future of Central Valley politics in a post-Trump era. And, with hiccups in vaccine distribution and no national reserve to speak of, we look into how COVID-19 vaccinations are going in our part of the state.