California Farmers Voice Need For Guest Worker Program; Warn Of Crop Shortage
Farmers said they are having trouble finding enough workers to pick their crops, and may have to switch to machines.
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Farmers said they are having trouble finding enough workers to pick their crops, and may have to switch to machines.
The National Security Agency has secretly broken into the main communications links that connect Yahoo and Google data centers around the world, the Washington Post reported, citing documents obtained from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.
The governor is still facing the federal mandate to reduce the population in state prisons, something he continues to fight.
This comes as the police department is struggling to retain officers, amid cuts in pay and pension benefits.
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee and other local officials said Google has left them in the dark about a massive barge off Treasure Island, days after KPIX 5 first reported on the mysterious project.
Two San Francisco supervisors are proposing separate ballot measures that would impose a tax on sugary beverages sold in the city.
The head of California's new health insurance exchange estimates that nearly one million Californians may see their health insurance plans disappear when the Affordable Care Act kicks in.
Dozens of homeless advocates camped out overnight in San Francisco's Dolores Park Monday night after holding a "sleep-in" protest against one supervisor's plan to close city parks from midnight to 5 a.m.
San Jose is a step closer to getting a new police chief with the city manager intending to appoint the acting chief, Larry Esquivel to the position permanently.
A Santa Clara engineer charged with threatening a state lawmaker over a firearms bill pleaded no contest Monday to seven felony and three misdemeanor charges.
The governors of Pacific coastal U.S. states and a Canadian province official on Monday vowed to collectively combat climate change by coordinating polices.
Former Santa Clara County Supervisor George Shirakawa has been indicted by a criminal grand jury on one felony count of false personation, prosecutors announced Monday.
San Francisco Supervisor Scott Wiener plans to introduce a ballot measure that would put a tax on sugary drinks. Under his proposal, money from the tax would fund health, nutrition and activity programs for the city's young people.
Dr. Marion Nestle, a nationally known expert and author, discusses the intersection of food, politics, and public policy.
The National Park Service is recommending that Congress create a new historic park to honor farm labor leader Cesar Chavez, one that would be made up of four sites in California and a former Phoenix church hall where the now-famous rallying cry "Si se puede" was popularized.
