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California’s 10th Atmospheric River This Winter Causes Levee Breach and Thousands to Evacuate....
Time via Yahoo Canada News· 1 year agoA boy and a man ride bicycles through floodwaters in Watsonville, Calif., on March 11, 2023. Credit...
California has a housing crisis. Why are thousands of farmworker apartments closed each year?
Sacramento Bee via Yahoo Canada News· 7 months agoCalifornia farmworkers struggle to find housing — yet the state lets thousands of affordable units...
Age, drought, rodents and neglect weaken California levees, heightening flood danger
LA Times via Yahoo Canada News· 1 year agoMuch of the Monterey County town of Pajaro, just across the Pajaro River from Watsonville, was...
UFW just got big union wins at New York farms. Is the same coming for California?
Sacramento Bee via Yahoo Canada News· 1 year agoThe United Farm Workers just had its biggest unionizing success in years, and it didn’t happen in...
California's relentless rains affect farmworkers, strawberry prices
Yahoo News· 1 year agoA spate of heavy rains in California that have interfered with the strawberry harvest are negatively...
Higher food bills? Your veggies, nuts and berries may cost more thanks to extreme weather
USA TODAY via Yahoo Finance Canada· 1 year agoSnow, torrential rains, massive floods. Extreme weather has battered the U.S. this year, and...
How a long history of racism and neglect set the stage for Pajaro flooding
LA Times via Yahoo Canada News· 1 year agoMaria Terriquez, right, and Blanca Garcia push a shopping cart of supplies across the Pajaro River...
California deals with surging rivers, sliding rocks and flooded towns as storm passes
LA Times via Yahoo Canada News· 1 year agoNewsom visits inundated Pajaro, where a levee breach has displaced hundreds. Porterville residents...
California Assembly elects new leader after showdown over speaker post
LA Times via Yahoo Canada News· 2 years agoCalifornia Democrats voted in a new leader in the state Assembly on Thursday, naming San Benito...
Floods fill some of California's summer strawberry fields
Associated Press via Yahoo Canada News· 1 year agoAs river water gushed through a broken levee, thousands of people in a California farming town were...