Mendota News

A plan to build gates across two Delta channels has strong support from state and federal leaders, though little is known about how the project would affect the environment.

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.

Reporting from Mendota, Calif. -- Water built the semi-arid San Joaquin Valley into an agricultural powerhouse.

A fishbowl containing look-alike relatives of the protected Delta Smelt sits atop a table between Rep.

Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement is hosting its annual awards ceremony today for Central Valley students.

This is the time of year towns like Mendota normally come to life because of the summer harvest.

Streets in downtown Fresno are being closed to traffic as officials prepare for potentially thousands of farmers and their supporters gathering for a water rally.

Areas such as Mendota, Calif., where Stephanie Santana lives, face water restrictions established to protect the Delta smelt, a threatened fish.

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger today issued the following statement regarding the Two Gates Fish Protection Demonstration Project, designed to protect Delta smelt and increase the reliability of water exports: 'With mandatory water restrictions and crops lying fallow, it is clear that every Californian is suffering from our water shortage - and ...

If history is any measure, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's plea last week for a presidential disaster declaration for water-starved Fresno County faces long odds.

U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has announced he will hold hearings on the drought in California and its impact on farmers.

California's secretary of Food and Agriculture is planning to be in the farm community of Mendota to learn firsthand about the drought impacts suffered by San Joaquin Valley farmers and the workers and businesses that depend on them.

's plane made an emergency landing Friday after the cockpit filled with smoke, officials said.

Gov. Schwarzenegger spent Friday afternoon in Mendota, taking a first-hand look at how the state's water crisis is affecting the Valley's west side.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger met Friday with a group of frustrated farmers on the edge of a dry, dusty field in Mendota -- and then asked for federal disaster money to help them.

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will be in Mendota Friday afternoon, looking at the effects of the drought.

The Madera County Sheriff's Department is searching for relatives of Eugene Smith, 67, who died June 16.

The San Joaquin River will finally flow year-round as a long-awaited restoration begins in October.

Using a helicopter, Fresno police tracked a woman for several miles as she tried to evade officers Friday night in a stolen car.

The San Joaquin River will finally flow year-round as a long-awaited restoration begins in October.