In the heart of Kilkenny, a farmer walks through his fields with quiet pride. Under the late summer sun, his wheat straw stands tall and golden. As the winter harvest comes to an end, this leftover ...

Free straw wattles to control erosion will be available 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Thursday in Paradise and Yankee Hill. The Butte County Resource Conservation District will be giving the wattles away at the ...

A customer at Friedman’s Home Improvement store in Santa Rosa on Monday afternoon purchased a tall stack of straw wattles used for erosion control and drove the unwieldy load, wobbling freely, through ...

At Feb. 27’s Solana Beach City Council meeting, 24 seventh and eighth-grade students from Earl Warren Middle School presented a recommendation to further the city’s commitment to reducing plastic by ...