U.S. Rep. Greg Walden will be among a long list of attendees at the "Shut Down and Fed Up" tractor rally in Midland on Friday, according spokesperson Molly Jenkins.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Gov. Gavin Newsom has crafted himself as a data-driven governor, letting the facts dictate what has been a largely cautious approach to public safety amid the coronav…
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Hundreds of protesters rallied outside the state Capitol on Saturday to protest against California's stay-at-home orders even as residents entered the Memorial Day we…
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California's unemployment rate nearly tripled to 15.5% in April as the nation's most populous state lost more jobs in one month than it did during the Great Recession…
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Outbreaks of E. coli illness that sickened 188 people who ate romaine lettuce grown in California probably came from cattle grazing near the farms, the U.S. Food and Drug Ad…
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RENO, Nev. (AP) — Reversing course again in a 30-year-old battle over protection of a weasel-like mammal that eats porcupines, the U.S. government is declaring the Pacific fisher endangered in…
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — As California moves through its methodical four-step process for reopening, some counties are pushing the boundaries by bypassing the state’s orders or refusing to en…
West Coast sweet cherry crops appear light this year, with California halfway through harvest and Washington about to start.
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A little over a year after Vietnam began accepting fresh blueberries from the U.S., the Philippines has followed suit.
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Oregon, Washington and 17 other states can sue the Trump administration over revisions to the Endangered Species Act, a federal judge ruled Monday.
Farmers can start applying for $16 billion in agricultural aid on May 26, said Agriculture Secretary Sony Perdue during a Monday night virtual "rural town hall."
In the West and across the U.S., mass distribution of food boxes began Monday and will continue in approximately six-week segments through December.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden's presidential campaign is bringing on the granddaughter of civil rights leader César Chávez as a senior adviser to help with Latino outreach and building out its o…
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MINA, Nev. (AP) — A magnitude 4.6 earthquake hit western Nevada Sunday, two days after a much larger one hit the region, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
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Snow fell in the upper elevations of the Sierra Nevada on Monday and rain and wind affected other parts of California.
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FORT DODGE, Iowa (AP) — A California farm animal sanctuary is spending thousands of dollars to send two cargo planes to Iowa to rescue 1,000 chickens that were going to be euthanized at a stru…
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A highly contagious and deadly rabbit disease has been found in California for the first time, the state Fish and Wildlife Department said.
Four West Coast farms in California, Oregon and Washington were selected Wednesday among 15 recipients nationwide for a 2020 grant supporting small, independent farms.
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FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — A federal court on Tuesday temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s efforts to pump more water to the agricultural Central Valley, which critics said would threaten…
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The House is pushing toward a Friday vote on the next coronavirus aid package, as Speaker Nancy Pelosi encourages Congress to “go big” with aid to cash-strapped states and st…
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SEAL BEACH, Calif. (AP) — A beach bordering two Southern California counties reopened Monday with some restrictions as parts of the state slowly reopened public spaces and businesses.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The most significant reopening of the California economy during the coronavirus pandemic started Friday with tens of thousands of businesses cleared to open with limi…
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s first cases of elk hoof disease have been discovered in two animals in a herd of Roosevelt elk that live in Del Norte County, the state Department of Fis…
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California's coronavirus-induced budget deficits will continue through at least 2024, the state's nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office said Friday, totaling up to…
Environmental groups are suing the Trump administration to protect a rare, weasel-like carnivore found along a narrow strip of coastal forests in Southern Oregon and Northern California.
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Sparsely populated Modoc County in California's northeast corner plans to allow hair salons, churches, restaurants and the county’s only movie theater to reopen Friday, becoming the first coun…
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U.S. retailers are experiencing garlic shortages and prices are spiking during the COVID-19 shutdowns. Growers say the pandemic was the final nudge on a row of dominos that moved the market.
Eric Buhrmann, general manager of Mininger Foods in Merced County, Calif., says sweet potatoes have everything a body needs.
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The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation will provide approximately 140,000 acre-feet of water to farms and ranches from Upper Klamath Lake in 2020, the agency announced Wednesday.
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Restrictions on daily life may continue for many months and won’t be totally lifted until cases of COVID-19 steadily fall and states are able to test, treat, track and quarantine more people t…
Restrictions on daily life may endure for many months and won't be totally lifted until cases of COVID-19 steadily fall and states are able to test, treat, track and quarantine more people to …
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Oregon, Washington and California announced Monday that they've agreed to work together on responding to the coronavirus pandemic, though the agreement does not commit the states to common actions.
The Klamath Water Users Association estimates the Klamath Project will receive approximately 140,000 acre-feet of water from Upper Klamath Lake, compared to 325,000 acre-feet in 2019.
A top tree fruit marketing company in Wenatchee, Wash., has gained another grower-packer in its membership
Northwest food processors are taking steps to protect worker health and safety amid the COVID-19 crisis while also keeping up production to meet shifting consumer demands.
The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation has issued a new three-year operating plan for the Klamath River, dedicating more water for endangered salmon while avoiding a "worst case scenario" for farmers …
California FFA has canceled its state convention, and will instead hold a "virtual convention" to comply with social distancing amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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Demand for lamb, wool and pelts is tanking in response to the coronavirus pandemic, industry representatives say, and prices are following suit.
As a cooperative extension specialist with the University of California-Davis, Sahap Kaan Kurtural leverages artificial intelligence to enable vineyard managers to optimize irrigation without …
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NASA, Google, environmental groups to make water data more accessible in 2021
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As coronavirus continues to spread rapidly across the Northwest, the pandemic is threatening to exacerbate an already critical labor shortage for farms and food processors.
SBA is offering long-term loans to small business suffering economic injury from the coronavirus.
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A cold snap following a warmer than normal winter is damaging Washington’s 2020 tree fruit crops, particularly cherries and apricots in the south central part of the state.
It appears an end to California’s long-standing quota program is just a matter of time. The question is whether it’ll be a sudden death or a gradual expiration.
On behalf of the Northwest wheat producing states, we strongly support the findings in the Columbia River System Operations Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), specifically the Preferr…
As Klamath County became the first in Oregon to officially declare drought in 2020, hundreds of local farmers and ranchers are bracing for what could be one of the most difficult water years i…
Tensions are running high in California’s dairy communities over quota, a state program that assesses all Grade A milk producers to pay some of them a premium on their milk.
In a filing to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Feb. 28, the Klamath River Renewal Corp. estimates full dam removal will cost $446 million — within the project's $450 million budget.
The California Department of Food and Agriculture has granted a petition from the Stop QIP Tax Coalition for a public hearing to consider terminating the state’s Quota Implementation Plan.
Nathan Pauls says his unique business began eight years ago when a student teacher in his wife’s first-grade class gave her a large, ugly, cucumber-shaped gourd.
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Farmers and ranchers in the federally operated Klamath Project are struggling to plan for the upcoming irrigation season without knowing how much water will be allocated by the Bureau of Reclamation.
The proposal would sunset quota in five years, with the program continuing much the same in the interim.
The program faces legal challenges and is dividing California’s dairy producers.
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A new realization of cost and return is threatening the future of quota.
Federal wildlife officials are investigating the illegal poaching of an endangered gray wolf that crossed from Oregon into northern California in late 2018.