Farmington News

CAL Fire Tuolumne-Calaveras resources are on scene of a 50 acre grass fire in the community of Farmington.

California officials took rare action this weekend by shutting down two San Joaquin Valley farm labor companies after discovering alleged violations of requirements to provide shade and train workers to prevent heat stress.

STOCKTON, Calif. -- Three people are charged with involuntary manslaughter in the death of pregnant 17-year-old field worker Maria Isabel Vasquez Jimenez, who died of heat stroke two days after collapsing in a vineyard.

Seven-year-olds Matthew Brazil of Escalon and Gregory Guajardo of Linden knew each other pretty well but barely recognized each other when they met Friday at the Weststeyn Dairy in Farmington.

A program to recharge declining groundwater levels in eastern San Joaquin County is set to receive $835,000 from the federal economic stimulus package.

San Joaquin County District Attorney James P. Willett filed involuntary manslaughter charges today against former operators of Merced Farm Labor in the case of 17-year-old Maria Isabel Vasquez Jimenez, who died of a heat stroke May 16 two days after collapsing in a Farmington vineyard under the contractor's supervision.

Karen Olson often debates her friends about the future of her art form, which is black and white photography.

The Delicato 21st annual Fine Art Show was a huge success. The art entered was absolutely superb.

The heat-related deaths of at least six workers last year - including a teenage farm worker who had been living in Lodi - prompted heightened scrutiny of conditions in the Central Valley's fields as well as ...