Kettleman City News

California's Central Valley produces many of the fruits and vegetables consumed in America.

A Valley community is battling environmental concerns and heartbreaking tragedy and they say they've got proof that no one wants to see.Families in Kettleman City say a spike in birth defects shows something in their town is causing health problems and now they want answers from the government.The families rallied on Wednesday and one by one, they ...

Environmental justice lawyer Luke Cole, well-known in the San Joaquin Valley for his defense of small communities against large corporate projects, died June 6 in a head-on crash while visiting Uganda.

Environmental groups and parents asked Wednesday for Kings County officials to declare a health emergency and a moratorium for all permits for what they say are polluting industries in Kettleman City, including a proposed expansion of the Waste Management Kettleman Hills facility and a proposed energy plant in Avenal.

Fearing the main canal carrying drinking water to millions of Southern Californians is sinking again, water officials are monitoring the effects of incessant agricultural pumping from the aquifer that runs under the aqueduct.

Wikipedia : "Quay Valley, also referred to as Quay Valley Ranch, is a proposed planned community consisting of about 12,000 acres in unincorporated Kings County, California, located approximately halfway between Los Angeles and San Francisco, and about two miles east of Kettleman City.

Thousands of farmers, farmworkers and their supporters rallied at City Hall on Wednesday, calling on federal officials to ease regulations that have cut water supplies to the nation's most prolific growing region.

Luke Cole, founder of a legal advocacy organization that fought on behalf of minority communities unfairly targeted by polluters, has died.

A Mendota woman suspected of throwing her 18-month-old grandson has been arrested by the Fresno County Sheriff's Office on suspicion of child abuse, battery with serious injury and resisting arrest, Sheriff Margaret Mims said Monday.

Tulare Western High School senior Debra Lee can relate to the Friday Night Live presentation given Friday to the senior class.

A truck and trailer overturned this morning, pinning the driver inside, in a collision along Highway 41 at the Old State Highway, about 5 miles south of Kettleman City, the California Highway Patrol reported.

A guy with a tan mustache and a blue plaid shirt said, "OK, here's what you do. When you get to Kettleman City on 41, as soon as you pass Con-way Freight, there's a frontage road that winds around some grape ...

The first breakaway of Stage 5 of the Amgen Tour of California occurred shortly before 1 p.m. just east of Kettleman City and the Interstate 5 crossing.

Couture Farms, Kettleman City, Calif., will harvest organic asparagus for the first time this spring.

The California asparagus industry expects an excellent year in terms of yield and quality, though water and high temperatures have some growers slightly worried.

Charity Schuck's Sunday routine would probably be uneventful except for one small glitch: She needs somebody to push her two miles in a wheelchair from the Amtrak station to her apartment in south Hanford.