California’s natural resources agencies are beginning to move ahead with an updated state water plan in response to climate warming that threatens an estimated 10% reduction in the state’s available [...] Continue Reading
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Western States Wrangle Over Shrinking Colorado River
Colorado River water has been a source of contention between seven southwestern states for decades. Nearly a quarter-century of drought has created more stress. The states have not yet come [...] Continue Reading
Resistance in the Heartland
Kings County is not a place most people would expect to see much resistance to the illegal and immoral policies and actions of the Trump administration. It is home to industrial agriculture, state [...] Continue Reading
Tribus de California Luchan por los Derechos del Agua
Por Vic Bedoian Recientemente, la Junta Estatal de Control de Recursos Hídricos celebró audiencias exhaustivas sobre la actualización del Plan del Delta de la Bahía, que regula la cantidad de agua [...] Continue Reading
Tribal Nations Fight for Water Rights
Recently, the State Water Resources Control Board held comprehensive hearings on the update of the Bay Delta Plan that governs how much water flows from the state’s rivers though the largest estuary [...] Continue Reading
Resistencia en el corazón del valle
POR VIC BEDOIAN El condado de Kings no es un lugar donde la mayoría de la gente esperaría encontrar mucha resistencia a las políticas y acciones ilegales e inmorales de la administración Trump. [...] Continue Reading
Orange Cove Grapples with Hydrogen Blending Plan
Orange Cove is a small Fresno County town nestled against the Sierra foothills surrounded by citrus orchards, as it has been for well over a century. The usual worries in this Valley farming are [...] Continue Reading
Southeast Development Project Scaled Back
Community activism is forcing the City of Fresno to rethink its ambitious and controversial Southeast Development Area (SEDA) plan. The proposed development project of massive proportions would [...] Continue Reading
Farming Communities Protest Fumigant Regulations
Californians for Pesticide Reform has launched an assault on the state’s regulation of agricultural fumigants 1,3-dichloropropene (1,3-D) and chloropicrin, calling on the Department of Pesticide [...] Continue Reading
Comunidades Protestan Contra las Regulaciones de Fumigantes
La organización Californians for Pesticide Reform (Californianos por la Reforma de los Pesticidas) ha lanzado una ofensiva contra la regulación estatal de los fumigantes agrícolas 1,3-dicloropropeno y [...] Continue Reading
A Conversation with Ian Masters
On Nov. 15, Ian Masters will be the keynote speaker at the KFCF/Fresno Free College Foundation annual banquet. Masters hosts the nationally syndicated news analysis radio program Background Briefing, [...] Continue Reading
KFCF Honored with Fresno’s Horizon Award
For a small radio station, KFCF, with its unique and eclectic blend of offerings, has left a big footprint in Fresno throughout its 50 years of broadcasting in the Valley region. All the while, the [...] Continue Reading