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One Merced city official didn’t mince words during a recent board meeting in Sacramento.
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After years of cracking down on California’s oil industry, Gov. Gavin Newsom and legislative Democrats are moving to get Kern County wells pumping again to avoid soaring gasoline prices.
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The Pac-12 and Mountain West conferences are headed back to court after failing to reach a settlement agreement in mediation over $55 million in "poaching" fees.
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Nadia Olivos, who tends strawberry and raspberry plants at the farm she works at, is finishing up her AgTEC Workforce classes, which aim to give students a leg up in agriculture technology-focused careers.
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Reza Ehsani, mechanical engineering professor at the University of California, Merced, is one of the professors guiding students to research and develop agriculture tech that could be commercialized.
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Drew Ketelsen, vice president and farm manager at HMC Farms, says adopting the latest in agtech has created a safer work environment for field workers, and it has added efficiency to the day-to-day.
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For many small business owners, the contentious anti-camping law has been a blessing.
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The United States Department of Labor Secretary, Lori Chavez-DeRemer, is suing a San Joaquin Valley farming company one year after a deadly crash involving farmworkers.
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As AI continues to grow, experts say that the wine industry is proof that businesses can integrate the technology efficiently to supplement labor without displacing a workforce.
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In the weeks since agents with U.S. Customs and Border Protection launched a surprise raid on Kern County, anxious farmworkers say they’re facing an impossible choice.
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In texts, Bitwise Industries co-founders celebrated defrauding ‘old, white, conservative rich dudes’The text messages were presented in a federal courtroom just before Jake Soberal and Irma Olguin, Jr. were sentenced to a combined 20 years in prison. Former employees told KVPR the sentencing hearing left them feeling raw and emotionally conflicted.
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The strike impacted multiple city services, resulting in 311 FAX bus routes being cancelled.