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While Washington and Sacramento attempt to cook up new rules for water deliveries in California, a stopgap plan submitted to a Federal judge is catching heat for being developed behind closed doors.
Despite a global pandemic, farm production in Fresno County is humming and leading the U.S., according to the county’s 2020 crop report.
The suit, brought by the Los Angeles farming giant against Tulare County, sought to reverse building permit approvals for a plant owned by its largest, upstart competitor.
A California judge has declined to validate a contract granting permanent access to federally controlled water for the nation’s largest agricultural water supplier.
On the 110th birthday of California’s initiative system, Don Wright asks: How about something different than bonds to fix California’s overworked water infrastructure?
Kings County lawmakers doubled down on their push for emergency water resources for Kettleman City, while also tackling redistricting, PG&E’s rate increase, and the STEP Act.
Over the course of two days during the atmospheric river storms, incredible amounts of water in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta flushed out to the ocean. Here’s how much could have been used in the Valley.
Environmentalists and a pair of Delta water agencies are doubling down their fight to halt water transfers tot he Valley by targeting a newly-extended water transfer period.
State water regulators have a harsh message for Kings County’s tourist stop-over town of Kettleman City: pray for rain.
The Sensible Taxation and Equity Promotion (STEP) Act will force Valley families to pay a huge tax bill on property or assets they didn’t own decades earlier, writes BizFed Central Valley chair William Bourdeau.
