In 2022, detainees protested working conditions at the two Kern County facilities and held a labor and hunger strike. This month, detainees still upset by workplace conditions are holding another strike.

In a statement released to the social media account for Irma Olguin Jr. on the platform X, an apology addresses former “teammates, investors, lenders and their respective families.”

Twelve years ago, prehistoric fossils were found during a Highway 99 construction project near Merced, California.

Nearly three years after the United States pulled out of Afghanistan, more than 150 refugees fleeing Taliban rule have found homes in California’s Mojave Desert.