In August, an eradication team with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife raided an illegal marijuana farm, where it found pot plants growing around the shaggy bark of Joshua trees in rural ...

Mike Hackett’s Monterey County cannabis farm is buzzing with energy on this sunny day in July. Trucks drive between greenhouses dropping off supplies. Farmworkers in hoodies sort through tables filled ...

Law enforcement raided the illegal cannabis operation in Shasta-Trinity National Forest months before, but rotting potatoes still sat on the growers’ makeshift kitchen worktop, waiting to be cooked.

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U.S. citizen and Iraq combat veteran George Retes Jr. is arrested during the ICE raid of a cannabis farm in Camarillo, California, on July 10, 2025. (Source: U.S. court filings) LOS ANGELES (CN) — A ...

Mike Hackett's Monterey County cannabis farm is buzzing with energy on this sunny day in July. Trucks drive between greenhouses dropping off supplies. Farmworkers in hoodies sort through tables filled ...

Nearly 7,000 abandoned sites on California’s public lands likely an underestimate, according to nonprofit Integral Ecology Research Center. The team knows of only 587 that have been at least partly ...

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