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Blue Diamond on the hunt for new almond chief as Jansen steps down
California almond cooperative Blue Diamond Growers is on the hunt for a new Chief Executive.
October 18, 2022
National media kick off ‘Running Out of Water’ season with vignette of Valley community on the brink
California's devastating drought is bringing on a wave of familiar, if entirely unwelcome, misery to communities up and down the Golden State.
October 13, 2022
Resnicks rock UC Davis, commit $50mil for Ag innovation center
Lynda and Stewart Resnick's giving spree to California universities isn't quite over.
October 13, 2022
Amid worst-ever drought, Calif.’s top water agency is focused – on fighting racism
When did California's top water agency change from a bureaucracy administering water rights to an arbitrator and avenger of unrelated injustices? When Californians got too tired to call the agency to account.
October 6, 2022
Newsom caves to Biden, signs UFW-led election bill – with some adjustments
The UFW suffered body blows that left its membership as "statistically zero." Pressure from Washington and Gov. Gavin Newsom's signature on a controversial, UFW-led union election bill may revive the farmworker union's fortunes.
September 28, 2022
Madera Co. approves penalties for excess groundwater extraction
Madera County farmers who extract more groundwater from their wells than they are allocated are set for stiff…
September 28, 2022
Westlands spearheaded Delta restoration project. Now, it faces puzzling ‘greenlash.’
If California's environmental goals get met, does it really matter if a key contributor is a long-time nemesis of special interest groups?
For Westlands Water District, kinda.
September 26, 2022
Will Madera Co.’s SGMA rebellion offer blueprint – or warning – for reckoning with farm water restrictions, costs?
One of Madera County's three critical water sub-basins is pushing back on sky-high fees to pay for state-mandated water conservation. Here's why they're mad as hell.
September 25, 2022
‘Buy American’ bill a common sense move to keep U.S. food producers flourishing
A bill on Gov. Gavin Newsom's desk "ensures that our schoolchildren access nutritious, American-grown foods produced under the strictest safety standards in the world," writes State Sen. Anna Caballero (D–Salinas).
September 20, 2022
Newsom pushes back on Biden pressure to sign UFW election bill
Nobody – but especially Joe Biden – puts Gavin Newsom in a corner, Gavin Newsom said in a recent TV interview.
September 14, 2022