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The Mexican table grape deal should be solid for promotions, with volumes coming into the U.S. early enough for Memorial Day and lasting through July Fourth.

HERMOSILLO, Mexico -- In what Juan Laborin called "the earliest year ever" for the Sonoran grape crop, volumes should be down more than 10% due to weather issues.

A Delano man who fled to Mexico to escape a child pornography charge was arraigned in Bakersfield Thursday after a mobile application led to his arrest earlier this month.

The state of California has granted Delano nearly $5 million to remove nitrates out of the city's drinking water.

Deputies served a search warrant for an illegal outdoor marijuana cultivation in the area of Cecil Avenue and Wasco Pond Road in Delano Thursday.

When I was a farmworker, before the strike, we lived in different worlds-the Latino world, the Filipino world, the African-American world and the Caucasian world.

Rod Thornburg / Special to The Californian At Thursday night's forum sponsored by the Kern County Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, incumbent Rudy Salas, D-Bakersfield, answers one of his questions while Repulican candidates Romeo Agbalog and Pedro Rios, left, who are running against him, wait to answer theirs.

The history of aviation is a spectacular one, filled with aviators who are solidified in history as heroes as often as they are icons, soaring into the realm of mythology.

While the post-mass-killing tragedy debate loudly rages, yet again, about gun control, sexism and how law enforcement deals with the mentally ill, I'd like to draw your attention to a quiet little program here in Kern County.

The history of aviation is a spectacular one, filled with aviators who are solidified in history as heroes as often as they are icons, soaring into the realm of mythology.

On Friday, June 6, at 9:45 a.m., the Delano Police Department responded to shots fired near the intersection of Garces Highway and Albany Street.

By Javier Sierra Very close to the city of Delano, CA, where Cesar Chavez conducted a great deal of his work for justice, it reeks of injustice.

A man who spent 34 years in jail for a murder he says he did not commit sued Los Angeles Police Department investigators who allegedly fabricated evidence against him.

DELANO, Calif. - A weekend shooting in Delano has left one person dead -- and police officers searching for clues and suspects.

Martin Caratan, president of M. Caratan Inc., second from right, joins in a ribbon cutting for a new 204,200-square foot cold storage site at Columbine Vineyards in Delano, Calif.

It's been a long, winding road to the market place for Sugar Crunch, a Pandol Bros.

Hear that roar? It's Lions,at the gate. Lionsgate has a slew of great new DVDs. We tease you .

A farmworker protest in the Salinas Valley in 1966, a year of rapid change in the labor movement when the National Farm Workers Association and Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee merged to form the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee .

A badly neglected puppy dubbed "Hercules," is fighting for his life. The pup, who was found this week in a flower bed in McFarland, Calif., was barely alive - his small body was covered in countless ticks which had literally sucked most of the blood from his little body.

A brave 16-year-old cancer survivior with no teeth is hoping the kindness of strangers will help win his fight to get new dentures.

Earlier season set to catch Memorial Day, July Fourth

Earliest-ever Sonora grape season will see lower volumes

Delano child porn fugitive brought down by mobile app

States grants Delano $5 million to clean water

Man arrested after 79 pot plants seized

What Cesar Chavez Missed

2 Republicans challenge Democrat Rudy Salas for 32nd Assembly seat

Up in the air

Lois Henry: Here's how to heal killers long before they can act

Up in the air

Shooting in Delano sends one man to hospital

& Tierra: It Reeks of Injustice in Wasco, CA

34 Years for Wrongful Conviction, Man Says

One dead in Delano shooting

Columbine Vineyards opens cold storage

Pandol Bros. Sugar Crunch grape makes it onto the market

Lionsgate announces a cage full of great new DVDs

Looking Back: 1966 - A year of change in labor movement

Tick infested puppy left for dead in flower bed

Teen cancer survivor denied new teeth by insurer