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Lawmakers resume their lame duck session this week facing a deadline looming to avert a government shutdown, but they will also take some time to put a spotlight on a proposed merger of supermarket giants Kroger and Albertsons.

Lawmakers pressed energy regulators for details on shoring up the grid without fossil fuels or nuclear power. But trade groups decried soaring rates and faulty reliability in rural regions and pleaded for financing it other ways than through ratepayers.

A new study finds that rapidly converting 30% of California agriculture to organic practices would dramatically increase food prices and shrink profits for farmers.

The Almond Alliance and Great Valley Seed have launched a new initiative to help growers expand pollinator habitat.

The incredibly slow pace of final congressional election results in California appears to be coming to an end, with one exception.

Monterey Mushrooms has hired Andrea Smith as the new director of sales for the western region and Brian Hunt is the new senior vice president of ag operations at Church Brothers.

Republicans plan to use their razor-thin House majority and the committee control it gives them to investigate the Biden administration’s regulation of pesticides, climate policy and other issues important to agriculture.

The Environmental Protection Agency got a reminder, as if it needed one, of the need for a legally sufficient plan addressing the risks of pesticides to endangered species when a federal appeals court ordered it Tuesday to issue a new assessment on an insecticide used in blueberry and citrus production.