The sun rises on the Golden State Highway just south of Fresno. RN Melanie Albor prepares to vaccinate resident Peggy Arnold, left, at an affordable housing community in February 2021 in Tracy, Calif. Over the last year and a half, the rural, agricultural San Joaquin Valley has been a perpetual hot spot for the virus — the land of the …
Sean de Guzman, chief of snow surveys for the California Department of Water Resources measures snowpack at Phillips Station near Echo Summit in February. Yet, hundreds of miles to the south, the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California reports record amounts of reserves — enough to carry the state’s most populous region through this year and even next. “We don’t …
