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On the campus of the Bakersfield ARC, employees can work in a number of places, but one of the noisiest is the material recovery facility. It’s where about half of the city’s recycling is sorted by material. “On a daily average, we do anywhere from 28 to 35 tons a …

In a loading dock in northeast Fresno, two men pull up to the warehouse at Saint Agnes Medical Center in a white moving van. They meet a contract coordinator with the hospital named Heather Ritter, who pulls out a clipboard and asks them to sign a form. “As is, no …

On Tuesday night smoke and fire could be seen out in the distance on a farm in Tulare County near Highway 198 and road 56. The fire is burning 500 tons of hay and firefighters say it may take a few days for the fire to burn out. Firefighters tell …

A fire burning at a Merced County dairy farm has burned about 800 tons of hay, causing about $ 250,000 in damages.  No one has been injured, and no structures have been damaged.  It started after 4 p.m. on a dairy farm near Hwy 59 and McNamara Road.  Smoke filled the sky for …