California Drought Hurting World’s Top Almond Producer August 19, 2021 By Terence Chea As temperatures recently reached triple digits, farmer Joe Del Bosque inspected the almonds in his parched orchard in California’s agriculture-rich...
Wildfires Advancing Through Northern California August 18, 2021 By Terence Chea and John Antczak Northern California wildfires that incinerated two mountain communities continued marching through the Sierra Nevada while a utility purposely blacked out...
Startup California Construction Company Working on Robotic Vehicles March 20, 2018 By Terence Chea As a teenager working for his dad’s construction business, Noah Ready-Campbell dreamed that robots could take over the dirty, tedious...
California is Taking Global Warming Fight to Dairy Cows November 30, 2016 By Terence Chea California is taking its fight against global warming to the farm. The nation’s leading agricultural state is now targeting greenhouse...
Tourism Decline in California’s Scenic Big Sur Sparked by Wildfire August 1, 2016 By Terence Chea and Ellen Knickmeyer Lodge managers and cafe owners along California’s dramatic Big Sur coast were looking at a summer of jittery guests and...
California Drought Bad Tidings for Rice Harvest October 30, 2014 By Terence Chea California’s deepening drought is shrinking its rice harvest, and that’s bad news for farmers, migratory birds and sushi lovers. The...
California Fire Season Likely to Get Worse June 26, 2008 By Terence Chea Following nearly 8,000 lightning strikes that set more than 800 wildfires across Northern California, a meterologist is predicting much worse...