Officials and supporters of Visalia-based Kaweah Health are literally begging the state to help keep the good ship afloat after three years of COVID-inflicted losses.
Water managers monitoring both the Kaweah and Kings river watersheds are pumped up over the volume of precipitation falling in the past few weeks in the Sierra.
No longer the king, times have changed in the cotton business. California used to produce over 1.6 million acres of cotton - but today that is down to about 100,000