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Agricultural Leaders Defend Pesticide Practices Amid Calls for Exact Location Notifications
Several farmworkers and environmental activists gathered at the Shafter Youth Center on Tuesday to demand the exact location of planned pesticide applications. The public hearing, hosted by the California Department of Pesticide Regulation, was intended to address proposed modifications to the first-of-its-kind pesticide application notification system — SprayDays. The...
Evacuations ordered due to Borel Fire
(Update, 6:21 p.m. Friday) Caliente Bodfish Road has been closed at Kern Canyon Road, per Kern County Fire. Evacuees from the Bodfish and Breckenridge area will only be able to travel North on Caliente Bodfish Road to the shelter in Lake Isabella. Evacuees from the Havilah and Walker Basin Area will still be able to access Caliente Bodfish Road, South to the Tehachapi shelter location.
Two suspected of CHP car chase to Victorville plead not guilty robbery, evading police
Two men suspected of robbing an AT&T store in Bakersfield before leading California Highway Patrol officers on a chase to Victorville pleaded not guilty Friday to three charges each in Kern County Superior Court. Matthew Sanchez, 21, and Avien Morales, 19, were charged by the Kern County District Attorney’s Office...
New battery installation comes online in eastern Kern
A San Francisco-based energy company has flipped the switch on a $400 million battery installation next to its 4-year-old solar farm in the Rosamond area. Clearway Energy Group's 147-megawatt Rosamond Central Battery Energy Storage System is the company's first battery retrofit project, made up of lithium-ion batteries delivering power for four hours nightly to support the reliability of California's power grid.
Wofford Heights home destroyed in utility truck accident
WOFFORD HEIGHTS - A Wofford Heights home was completely destroyed after a utility truck traveling down the 1000 Block of Evans Road crashed off the roadway and burst into flames July 25. According to a Kern County Fire Department news release, firefighters were dispatched to the area after receiving reports...
ICE Detention: Where a day’s work might buy you a 14-minute phone call
One dollar a day. That’s how much immigrant detainees in GEO Group-run ICE facilities in Kern County earn scrubbing bathrooms and cutting hair, reports CalMatters’ Jeanne Kuang. Detainees at the Mesa Verde and Golden State Annex ICE facilities told Kuang they started their second labor and hunger strike in two years to protest poor working […]
Skyrocketing PG&E rates hitting Central Valley harder than most parts of state
Energy bills are on the rise across Central California with what feels like no end in sight.Pierre Thiffeault, a Northwest Fresno resident's, PG&E bill has skyrocketed.Just last month, he paid a little under $400, and now he's paying close to $1,000.Pierre says he's done all he can to cut his power use, but the bills keep going up."This one's $900 the next one its projected to be $1,100 for this next month. I'm like, that's just not fair," said Thiffeault.Even though he's taking measures to try and bring the bill down; he isn't seeing his bill budge at all."We have...
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