Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The last factory in California that turns sugar beets into sugar is shutting down after 78 years, according to the company that ...

Editor's note: Kathy Jordan died May 1, but true to her newspaper roots, she filed several columns ahead of deadline. We honor her life's work of preserving the community's history by publishing the ...

With our sugar consumption likely to rise with Halloween candy piling up, we look at the history of sugar and why California’s last sugar beet plant is leaving the state. The last sugar beat factory ...

NAMPA — It is officially fall, and that means a trickle of trucks hauling sugarbeets into the Amalgamated Sugar factory facility in Nampa. The beets are harvested in the fall and are processed into ...

A factory that produces about 320,000 tonnes of sugar every year is marking its centenary. However, working life at the British Sugar factory in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, has undergone a significant ...