
With almonds' rising revenues, land values soar
Bill Enns, a central California real estate agent specializing in farmland, fields dozens of calls every week from potential buyers. Many want almond, ...

Conservationists team up with ranchers, loggers
Two cowboys on horses pushed cattle across an expanse of golden hills overgrown with tall grasses and oak trees, up an unpaved road toward another ...

Food labels multiply, some confuse consumers
Want to avoid pesticides and antibiotics in your produce, meat, and dairy foods? Prefer to pay more to make sure farm animals were treated humanely, ...

Evaluation: Calif. plant shooting suspect unstable
Employees at a California chicken-processing plant returned to work Thursday as new information surfaced about the psychological history of the ...

Motive unclear in shooting at Calif. chicken plant
That Lawrence Jones targeted a handful of his co-workers at a chicken-processing plant, killing two of them execution-style, was evident, authorities ...

Police: Calif. shooting suspect was 'methodical'
Clattering machinery at a chicken-processing plant provided all the cover Lawrence Jones needed to kill two co-workers execution style and wound two ...
For dollars' worth of copper farmers out thousands
Cannon Michael is a folk hero across California's agriculture heartland, where these days the price of scrap metal influences a farmer's bottom line ...

High gas, diesel prices hurt Calif. farm industry
Farmers in California's agricultural heartland say record-high gas and diesel prices are putting pressure on their bottom lines, but economists say ...

Short supplies keep gas prices rising in Calif.
California gas prices continued surging Friday, adding another 17 cents per gallon on average, and the increases are expected to continue for at least ...

At least 20 injured in California train crash
Repair crews worked into Tuesday removing two derailed cars and a locomotive and to repair damaged railroad tracks after an Amtrak train carrying ...
Young illegal immigrants may get driver's licenses
When 17-year-old Alondra Esquivel needs to get from her rural central California home to classes at Fresno State University 20 miles away, she must ...

No. 4 Oregon beats Fresno State 42-25
Kenjon Barner set an example when the Ducks got lethargic. The senior running back took over and scored late in the fourth quarter to cement No.
Disabled Calif. boy not allowed to board airplane
A California family not allowed to board a cross-country flight said Tuesday that they believe they were discriminated against because their son has ...