Before the colonial era, 100,000s of people lived on the land now called California, and many of their cultures manipulated fire to control the availability of plants they used for food, fuel, tools, and ritual. Contemporary tribes continue to use fire to maintain desired habitat and natural resources. Frank Lake, an ecologist with the U.S. […]
California berry growers and mathematicians team up for water conservation, and more The Pajaro Valley in California’s Monterey Bay area is ideally suited for agriculture. In fact, the Pajaro Valley and the nearby Salinas Valley produce nearly half of the strawberries grown in the United States yearly. But, the water source for the valley is […]
Three Sacramento, California individuals were sentenced in federal court this week in the large-scale drug trafficking and money-laundering conspiracy that operated between California and Alaska between the years 2007 to 2012. In court, United States District Court Judge Timothy M. Burgess emphasized the seriousness of the offenses, saying that the defendants, through their distribution of a highly […]
California man, 41-year-old Isidro Garcia, has been charged with one felony count of forcible rape, three felony counts of lewd acts on a minor, and one felony count of kidnapping to commit a sexual offense after being arrested during a traffic stop on Wednesday. His arrest on those charges came after the daughter of his former […]