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Water board votes tonight on a valley allocation growers call untenable

The proposal would cut surface deliveries by nineteen percent starting in spring. Four districts say they will sue.

Ivy Salcedo · 42 minutes ago

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Kern County Update

The evening desk: county water board, a downtown rebuild, and Friday's heat advisory.

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