A bill that would have created a program to help farmers find new life for farmland idled by coming groundwater restrictions had its own phoenix moment...
Some San Joaquin Valley farmers could someday have a new “crop” to sell — their groundwater. In the face of looming groundwater pumping restrictions, some groundwater...
One farmer has single-handedly ramped up the pace of a program trying to save native salmon in the San Joaquin River by donating a key sliver...
Lawmakers may be close to passing a bill aimed at helping farmers cope with water restrictions. Assembly Bill 252, the Multibenefit Land Repurposing Incentive Program, would...
In California’s water world, long dominated almost exclusively by men, women are blazing a path — sometimes straight to the top. “I think water is changing,”...
A new player has entered the legal fray over the Kern River — the public. Actually, it’s a consortium of Bakersfield and other nonprofit, public interest...
The real test of the state’s recently passed ban on the use of water from most of the state’s rivers won’t be later this summer when...
The state’s response to the water crisis that gripped tiny Teviston, California earlier this summer should have been a no brainer, according to Tulare County officials....
Central Valley cattle ranchers are gearing up for a fight against what they see as groundwater rustling. Their fear is that newly formed groundwater agencies in...
Not all farmland in the San Joaquin Valley will survive in a post-SGMA world. Estimates are that the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act will force between 500,000...
