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"The fires that are ripping through Oregon and Idaho and California and the West are just proof that the fire prevention policy is broken," Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., chairman of the Senate Natural Resources Committee, said from Lincoln City.
A Sacramento couple was arrested on child neglect charges after police found nine children living at their in what police say were unsuitable conditions.
Some victims of childhood sexual abuse would have more time to file civil lawsuits against private or nonprofit organizations that protected their alleged abusers under a bill that passed a key legislative committee Wednesday.
Five U.S. academic institutions will share parts of a rare meteorite that exploded in a fireball over California last year.
Everything the article says is true, other than the name of the fictional vehicles, and made up quotes from Ford Product Development VP Raj Nair.
Wondering what to ask your child's teacher during Back To School Night? Here is a solid list of dos and don'ts applicable to any grade.
A pedestrian was hit and killed by a freight train while on the tracks near 20th and Q Streets in Sacramento.
Fire crews and CHP officers are investigating a truck fire in Arden-Arcade early Wednesday morning.
A man is waking up in the hospital after he smashed into a big rig in Elk Grove overnight.
More than 40 uncontained, active and large wildfires dot the western U.S. from Arizona to Washington state and Alaska, taxing national firefighting resources and helping to push spending past $1 billion for the year.
An environmentally focused think tank has announced that the Earth will be living in what they referred to as an ecological deficit for the remainder of the year.
The 2014 Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra have become the first pickup trucks to get five star rankings in the new, tougher crash tests done by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
"It's been an absolute runaway sales success, as well as a critical success," said Jamal Hameedi, Ford's chief engineer for performance vehicles. "It's been put up against the cream of the crop in Europe… and it's come out on top in just about all of its comparison tests."
Super Bowl contenders upgraded their rosters either by trade or free agency. Losing teams added talent in the hopes of making a run at the playoffs. Here are 10 of the most noteworthy moves.
An out-of-control wildfire was threatening more than 2,000 houses, hotels and camp buildings near Yosemite National Park, leading to the evacuation of remote rural homes and camps, and cutting off a key highway.
