Huron News

HURON, Calif. - As you drive down Highway 198 toward the tiny Central Valley city of Huron, yellow-and-black signs poke out from parched fields with a message that harkens back to the days of the Great Depression: "Congress Created Dustbowls." congress The signs, believed to be the handiwork of the Central Valley's agricultural industry, reflect a ...

New America Media, News feature, HURON, Calif. -A- As you drive down Highway 198 toward the tiny Central Valley city of Huron, yellow-and-black signs poke out from parched fields with a message that harkens back to the days of the Great Depression: A'Congress Created Dustbowls.A' The signs, believed to be the handiwork of the Central ValleyA's ...

There are seven of them -- ages 2 to 13 -- and the 10-year-old has Down syndrome.

Farmers on Friday were assessing the damage from a thunderstorm that roared through part of the Valley late Thursday night.

With a somewhat bumpy start to the Salinas Valley season, early yields for some leafy greens have been low, creating short-term supply gaps for some of the area's major crops.

A division of one of the largest agricultural companies in the county is closing its doors, forcing hundreds out of a job come next Monday.

Huron, California is a small ag town of about 7,000 in Fresno county, whose population swells to more than double or triple that amount during harvest season.

Needy residents in Firebaugh, Huron, Mendota and San Joaquin will get twice as many food boxes thanks to an anonymous donation to the Fresno County Economic Opportunities Commission.

Volunteers will go door to door in Mendota on Saturday installing free smoke detectors in homes.

Issue date:>> April 1, 2009 << Congress learns about California drought The House Resources Committee heard about the drought impacting the California's economy Tuesday at a Washington D.C. hearing.

Fresno County leaders have approved spending about $17.5 million from the federal economic stimulus program on more than 40 local road improvements.

This time of year, making a salad can really cost you a lot of green. In the transition from winter lettuce to summer lettuce , the burden falls for a few weeks on Huron.

For the first time since the baby boom of the 1950's, the baby population has hit an all-time high.

Salinas Valley grower-shippers are expecting a smooth transition from the Arizona and California deserts north to Huron, Calif., over the next two weeks.

A storm rumbled over Fresno on Friday, bringing lightning, thunder and cloudbursts, dropping nearly half an inch of rain.

Eight caught with khat Five Fresno residents, along with a San Jose man and two others from Seattle, have been arrested on suspicion of importing and distributing khat, an illegal drug in the U.S. that is a ...

State labor officials on Monday said that they forced a Huron farm-labor contractor to stop issuing IOUs to 62 of its workers.

Fresno County Sheriff's Deputies broke up a large-scale chicken fight in progress just outside of Huron on Sunday morning.

Several people were detained with at least one person arrested Sunday in connection with a cockfighting raid near Huron.

Tight supplies and generally favorable weather have helped increase prices and quality of iceberg lettuce shipping out of the Arizona and California deserts.