San Joaquin Valley Pistachio Orchard Could Be Hit Hard By Tree Disorder
A nursery near Modesto sold pistachio trees with a disorder that officials say could affect as many as 20,000 acres of San Joaquin Valley orchards.
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A nursery near Modesto sold pistachio trees with a disorder that officials say could affect as many as 20,000 acres of San Joaquin Valley orchards.
Kern County sheriff's officials have named three suspects in a shooting of a man and his pregnant wife that also wounded their baby.
According to their plea agreements, the three of them flew from Sacramento, California, to Honolulu a few days before the raid. The meth was smuggled to Hawaii in a suitcase Thomas Jackson got from Linton Nicholson, the documents said. They planned to sell the drugs in Honolulu.
A grand jury in Kern County indicted five Californians on charges including grand theft and recycling fraud in an alleged scheme that CalRecycle said Thursday involved more than 200 million cans or bottles.
Police are searching for the person who stabbed and shot one man and then shot another person at a Central California grocery store.
McDonald's may be developing a taste for a new ingredient as it fights to reinvent itself: Kale.
Sheriff's spokeswoman Nicole Nishida said detectives believe other people may be involved in the operation and deputies found ID cards, uniforms and vehicles that looked like law enforcement vehicles along with other official police equipment during their search of a home and office linked to the group.
Tunnels critic Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla says the real experts are people who live and work in the Delta. She says they won't go away, and they won't shut up.
His opening proposal is an ambitious tax overhaul. It centers on expanding California's sales tax to more services, while lowering the state's 7.5 percent base rate to as little as 4 percent. He also calls for doing away with local add-on taxes.
Marilyn Hartman, 63, was arrested for loitering at both O'Hare and Midway airports in Chicago.
Parts of the East Bay was awoken by three small earthquakes Wednesday morning.
Authorities say the woman was trying to cross into the United States by walking through the vehicle lanes at the San Ysidro point of entry.
Although the rules are called mandatory, it's still unclear what punishment the state water board and local agencies can or will impose for those that don't meet the targets. Board officials said they expect dramatic water savings as soon as June and are willing to add restrictions and penalties for agencies that lag.
The State Water Resources Control Board released numbers saying the state didn't conserve as much in March as regulators had hoped. Here are a few answers to questions you might have about Tuesday's findings and the restrictions yet to come.
The officials on Monday filed a request for a stay with the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals while the state appeals the ruling by U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar that California's corrections department must provide the surgery to 51-year-old Michelle-Lael Norsworthy, whose birth name is Jeffrey Bryan Norsworthy.
