You’ve likely seen the green California sticker with the words “My Job Depends on Ag” on cars, trucks and tractors around the Valley. Behind that slogan is a Facebook community of farmers and agricultural-enthusiasts . The movement has since inspired a television show. It premiered this week on Valley PBS …
Read More »To Bakersfield Cops, Concern For Opioids Grows – But Meth Is Still King
Bakersfield Police Officer Jaime Orozco doesn’t have to venture far to find criminal activity—less than two miles from the police station, in fact, at the Plaza Motel on Union Ave. “These little hotels here, this is all infiltrated with a lot of drug use,” he says as he and his …
Read More »Merced County sheriff’s helicopter spots how illegal marijuana grows are concealed
More than 250 pounds of dried and processed marijuana were confiscated and 150 outdoor marijuana plants were destroyed from large greenhouses during three investigations into illegal grow sites Friday, according … Click to Continue »
Read More »Illegal pot grows found in Yosemite, forests. Officials crack down, citing ‘catastrophic’ poisons
Citing new scientific evidence of “catastrophic” impacts on California’s forests and wildlife, law enforcement officials in Sacramento announced a new crackdown Tuesday on illegal marijuana growing sites statewide that they … Click to Continue »
Read More »As salinity grows and toxic dust spreads, patience wears thin at Salton Sea
California Assemblyman Eduardo Garcia watched with ill-disguised frustration as a hearing aimed at expediting state projects to restore habitat and control dust storms at the shrinking Salton Sea instead dissolved … Click to Continue »
Read More »Commentary: As Madera Grows, Could Fresno Area One Day Rival Austin?
Could the San Joaquin River, long a dividing line in the heart of California, unite the state in pursuit a more metropolitan future for the Central Valley? Whether that happens will be determined in Madera County, on the north side of the river from Fresno. There, a new city, consisting …
Read More »This is how marijuana is cured from illegal grows in Merced County
Merced County Sheriff’s Sgt. Clint Landrum explains how marijuana operators used a house in the 6800 block of Fruitland Avenue to cultivate product from an illegal grow for sale. Authorities shut down the operation and confiscated an estimated 800 pounds of marijuana Friday, Oct. 6, 2017. … Click to Continue …
Read More »Reward grows for info on slain Merced couple
An anonymous donor gave an additional $ 25,000 to increase the reward to $ 75,000 for information on the killings of Bill and Lena Chapman, who were slain Oct. 1, 2006. The new sign went up Sept. 25, 2017. … Click to Continue »
Read More »Merced County Sheriff’s Office removes marijuana plants from multiple grows in Merced County
The Merced County Sheriff’s Office removed marijuana plants from multiple grows which exceeded the 12 plants per parcel limit in Merced County on Friday, June 30, 2017. … Click to Continue »
Read More »Merced County Sheriff takes to the sky in search of illegal marijuana grows
Merced County Sheriff Vern Warnke looks for illegal marijuana grows from a Sheriff’s Office airplane over Merced County on Thursday, June 1, 2017. … Click to Continue »
Read More »Hundreds of homes threatened near Lake McClure as Detwiler Fire grows to 15,500 acres
The Detwiler fire near Lake McClure again nearly doubled overnight while nearly 1,000 firefighters scrambled to save hundreds of endangered homes. Calfire reported the 15,500-acre fire to be 5 percent … Click to Continue »
Read More »Detwiler Fire near Lake McClure grows to 7,100 acres overnight
The Detwiler Fire near Lake McClure had grown to 7,100 acres by Monday morning, with evacuation orders for residents along multiple roads. Cal Fire reported the fire just before 4 … Click to Continue »
Read More »Highway 41 reopened as Madera County fire grows to 1,450 acres
Highway 41 north of Fresno was reopened Sunday morning as Cal Fire crews fight a fire in Madera County that has now burned 1,450 acres. The highway had been closed … Click to Continue »
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