County officials warn that a recent change in state wage rules could hurt prescribed grazing programs that help reduce wildfire risk.

Sacramento has a way of getting on Kern County politicians’ nerves even in the best of times. But lately, it gets their goat — literally. This week, lawmakers including two locally elected state ...

California's goat grazing industry, vital for wildfire prevention, faces closure due to new labor laws raising herder wages ...

Congressman James Gallagher and other GOP leaders are looking to prevent the closure of goat herding labor.

Increasingly in recent years, Californians have put goats’ voracious and almost indiscriminate diets to work, minimizing fuel for wildfires across the state — a method that has been heralded as ...

Farming policy experts say the July expiration of a state law setting special minimum wages for goat and sheep herders may lead to the loss of jobs and the culling of sheep and goats on the eve of ...