Dave Adalian

1 week ago | ourvalleyvoice.com | Dave Adalian

The Kaweah Delta Health Care District has agreed to settle a class action suit brought on behalf of more than 6,000 current and former employees who claim the district underpaid them for years. The settlement will cost the district more than $500,000. Employees from 2019 to 2024 in PayoutIncluded in the class are all of the district’s employees who worked from October 19, 2019 to June 27, 2021, and any employee who was on-call from October 19, 2019 to November 19, 2024.

1 week ago | earthsky.org | Dave Adalian

Space Your support = more science, more stars, more wonder. Donate to EarthSky and be part of something bigger. New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope might mark the first time astronomers have witnessed a parent star consuming one of its own planets. And it appears the doomed world was pulled down to its demise. It’s a long-held belief among astronomers that aging sunlike stars will swell into red giants and consume their innermost planets.

2 weeks ago | earthsky.org | Dave Adalian

Earth Science matters. Wonder matters. You matter. Join our 2025 Donation Campaign today. The bonobo (Pan paniscus), humanity’s closest cousin, appears to communicate in a way scientists believed was exclusive to humans. Researchers from the University of Zürich and Harvard University said on April 3, 2025, that bonobos combine their vocalizations – peeps, grunts, whistles and more – to create more complicated meanings.

2 weeks ago | ourvalleyvoice.com | Dave Adalian

After a finding by state authorities that a series of failures and neglect led to the untimely death of a patient in the Kaweah Health Medical Center emergency department, the family of the dead man is seeking damages from the Kaweah Delta Health Care District in Tulare County Superior Court. In legal filings, the district has denied the families’ claims. A jury trial in the matter is set for 8:30 a.m. on Friday, February 6, 2026. Ten days have been set aside for the trial before Judge David C.

2 weeks ago | ourvalleyvoice.com | Dave Adalian

The Tulare Local Health Care District (TLHCD) has settled its lawsuit against a former member of its board of directors, Dr. Parmod Kumar. Kumar, who was removed from office in a 2017 recall election, was alleged to have encouraged the use of district funds to pay for a private lawsuit against another physician. Kumar has agreed to pay the TLHCD $500,000 over the next four years.