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Small businesses have a crucial role to play in ensuring COVID-19 vaccines get into the arms of rural Americans, who have been less eager than their urban and suburban counterparts to get the shots, panelists said at a virtual summit Thursday.

Water users along individual tributaries are hoping to avoid state mandated cutbacks through a voluntary approach.

The governing board that sets the standards for Cal/OSHA will decide Thursday which COVID-19 workplace restrictions can be lifted when Gov. Gavin Newsom reopens California on June 15.

Appointees garnered broad support, but lawmakers raised general concerns about gaps in the board’s oversight that have led to rising regulatory costs for communities of color as well as low-income and rural communities.

The Democratic party's chief rural outreach official takes a new job and some West Coast offices add some new staff on Capitol Hill.

The Securities and Exchange Commission is considering new climate disclosure rules for corporations that could have far-reaching implications for U.S. farmers, depending on how stringent the regulations turn out to be.

Fallowing acres due to the drought will lead to lost wages for farmworkers, many of whom will find steadier work elsewhere.

California ranchers knew months ago they were in for another dry year, and as drought grips most of the state, how a particular area’s conditions are labeled by the U.S. Drought Monitor could be a factor in whether, or how well, some ranches survive.

Budget committees are likely to approve placeholder language and return to the issue later this summer, after the state budget has been passed.