The community of Avenal is planning a November ballot vote on an increase of 1% in sales tax as well as a measure to tax cannabis sold in the city.

The region’s farms and cities can count on at least 120,000 acre feet of water for their water supply and irrigation plans this hot summer. Some 15,000 farms south of Fresno can exhale just a little.

The company - Source Global - has applied to the Tulare County Planning Commission for a special use permit to erect 640 hydropanels near Allensworth on land owned by John Hancock Life Insurance Company.

At capacity the beef plan would harvest a maximum of 210 cattle per day, says the document. The place would include a retail store for purchase of aged beef.

Kings County is a reliable GOP stronghold with the latest voter registration numbers favoring Republicans, which have 24,012 registered voters compared to 20,642 for Democrats as of April 2022, according to the California Secretary of State.

Tulare County officials hope the region will soon be a testing ground for a new generation of technology, including a genetically modified mosquito, as they try to prevent the kind of disease outbreaks now common in regions of the Caribbean and Central and South America where the species is widespread.

The California High Speed Rail Authority board said they would pay for preliminary designs for four Valley train stations including Fresno and the Kings/Tulare station in Hanford.

Sanger-based Pitman Farms plans to expand a Stratford poultry farm if given approval by the county Planning Commission May 2. The applicant is proposing a seven-fold expansion of an existing poultry farm of 249,300 chickens to include an additional 1,451,250 chickens, for a new total of approximately 1,700,550 chickens.