Kettleman City News

Kings County Supervisors are expected to vote Tuesday morning on the expansion of a controversial hazardous waste landfill.

Maricela Mares-Alatorre was well aware of the industrial and agricultural pollutants that surrounded her as she grew up in this tiny farm town just three miles from the largest toxic waste dump in the West.Her parents had founded People for Clean Air and Water two decades ago to successfully fight a proposed incinerator at the dump.

A group of mothers in Kettleman City are asking why so many birth defects. Now, the state of California could be launching an investigation to answer that very question.

The Department of Energy said Thursday it won't halt the shipment of nearly 15,000 drums of low-level radioactive waste from South Carolina for disposal in Utah.

Activists are protesting a decision by the California Department of Public Health that would allow the Boeing Co.

The public is welcome at a meeting in Hanford on Monday where the Kings County Board of Supervisors will discuss the controversial Waste Management permit.Waste Management wants to double the size of its landfill near Kettleman City.

Reporting from Kettleman City, Calif. - When environmental activists began a survey of birth defects in this small migrant farming town halfway between Los Angeles and San Francisco, the results were alarming.

Five babies with cleft palates or other grave disabilities were born over a 15-month span in this small farming community off Interstate 5. Three died.

Three men are in custody after a man was badly beaten and robbed late Monday in central Fresno, police said.

HANFORD, Calif. a " Kings County planners have approved the expansion of a hazardous waste facility in Kettleman City, even as state health officials continue weighing the project's possible impacts.The facility is one of the largest hazardous waste dumps in the country, and a large employer in the county's rural reaches near Interstate 5.Monday, ...

Kings County staff will research questions and concerns raised by opponents of the proposed expansion of a hazardous waste landfill and try to provide answers for planning commissioners before their next meeting Oct.

The Kings County Planning Commission listened Monday night to both sides of a controversial proposal to expand the Waste Management hazardous waste landfill near Kettleman City.

The protestors came because they fear toxic substances from the dump could be responsible for what they believe is a cluster of babies born with cleft palates in the small town of Kettleman City, a few miles from the site.

Editor's Note: This is the third of a three-part series about Kettleman City's environmental justice movement.

A 53-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon -- a horse.

KETTLEMAN CITY, Calif. -- This small, dusty community, commonly known as little more than the halfway point on Interstate 5 between San Francisco and Los Angeles -- and a great place to grab an In-N-Out Burger -- is an unlikely place to give birth to the grassroots environmental justice movement.

The Kings County Sheriff's Office announced on Monday the arrest of a Kettleman City man on nearly three-dozen counts of sexual assaults on children.

Kings County Sheriff's Detectives arrested 40 year old Salvador Garcia of Kettleman City.

Tulare County sheriff's detectives are investigating the kidnapping and sexual assault of a 7-year-old girl in Orosi.

A Kettleman City man was arrested Sunday and charged with sexual assaults on multiple children dating back about a decade, the Kings County Sheriff's Office reported today.