Monterey County sheriff’s deputies discovered a field filled with thousands of opium poppies, which was enough to make $45,000 worth of heroin. According to officials, the field contained 27,000 plants and an additional 16,500 poppies that had already been harvested. Authorities eradicated the poppies, which combined together could make about 13 pounds of raw opium. […]

A deported U.S. military veteran that became the voice for hundreds of deported U.S. military veterans around the world returned to the nation he served in April and finally became a citizen. Hector Barajas began raising awareness about deported veterans after he was deported from the United States. In 2013, he founded the Deported Veterans […]

According to BDS Analytics, a leading analytics firm, consumers bought an estimated $339 million worth of marijuana products from retailers in California in the first two months of cannabis legalization, which is 13 percent less than state projections. The state has estimated that retail cannabis sales for the remaining six months of this fiscal year […]

The question about what to do with the 2013 ballots in a union decertification vote by Gerawan Farming Inc. workers is still undecided. About 300 Gerawan workers gathered outside of the 5th District Court of Appeals in Fresno in April while the court heard the testimony of the United Farm Workers (UFW) union and Gerawan […]

According to the Sacramento Bee, California state attorneys are going to fight court rulings directing the state to pay about $40 million in back wages and benefits to about 3,000 current and former judges who claim they were shortchanged during the recession. The state must pay 10 percent annual interest on the back wages and […]

By Luis Alvarado, President of Familias Unidas de California Governor Brown has seen it all before. Severe drought conditions that plagued the state in 1976-1977 looked eerily familiar to the California’s most recent drought. On both occasions, Governor Brown took the initiative to declaring a state of emergency. In 2014, with California experiencing such unpredictable […]

According to a report by The Intercept, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) used backend Facebook data to track down undocumented immigrants targeted for deportation. The Intercept obtained documents and emails through a public records request that provided a rare look into one of the tactics ICE used to monitor suspects. The report shows that […]

In late March, an eight-page memo was released in which Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said the citizenship question would be included in the next census, which takes place in 2020, to better enforce the Voting Rights Act and to prevent racial discrimination in voting. This will be the first time in 70 years that the […]

Assembly members Todd Gloria (D-San Diego) and David Chiu (D-San Francisco) introduced a bill in February that aims to prevent California police departments from obtaining military-grade equipment without the explicit approval of the local government. Assemblymember Gloria stated, This bill helps further the impression that a police department is there to serve. That’s a very […]

In March, the California Air Resource Board banned chemicals used in industrial refrigeration equipment that are also a potent greenhouse gas. The chemicals are known as hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) and are a type of refrigerant used in supermarket refrigerators, chilled vending machines, Slurpee machines, frozen yogurt dispensers, and foams used in construction. The chemicals have been […]