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One of the largest awards, $15 million, went to a partnership between the Galt Joint Union High School District south of Sacramento, three community colleges and three state universities. They plan to offer agriculture-oriented science classes and training in disciplines such as construction, plumbing, metal fabrication and ornamental horticulture.
A 5-week-old kitten was lucky to land on its feet after it fell from the grip on a hawk in a Jurupa Valley neighborhood.
Californians who visit crisis pregnancy centers must know whether the facility is licensed and that abortion is an option under legislation advanced Tuesday by the state Assembly.
Plains All American Pipeline is downgrading the amount of oil it says spilled off a California coastline in a worst-case scenario.
The neighborhood near Irvine's Silverado Park is on edge following a coyote's attack on a 2-year-old girl.
Rodney Halbower, 66, is suspected of being a serial killer who raped and murdered five young women in Northern California and one in Reno, Nevada, during a four-month span in early 1976.
Police have arrested one of two suspects who allegedly attacked a janitor on May 16 in Madera. The incident happened at a Save Mart store on Howard Road.
Employees of PennySaver say the coupon magazine is going out of business.
A 3-year-old Irvine girl has minor wounds after being bitten by a coyote.
California's unemployment rate dipped slightly in April to 6.3 percent as the economic recovery created nearly 30,000 new jobs.
The company responsible for a pipeline that spilled thousands of gallons of oil along the California coast was ordered to take a series of steps before it can restart the line, federal regulators said Friday.
Authorities say a man believed to be high on drugs jumped through a plate glass window and ran naked and bloody through the streets of a town on California's central coast.
A Los Angeles firefighter has been convicted of assaulting a woman who fed cats in his neighborhood.
An unusual confluence of events means it could be months before a transgender California inmate knows if she will have the sex reassignment surgery that she says is critical to her mental health.
A central California farmer is holding off on harvesting his fields until thousands of imperiled tricolored baby blackbirds can fly from their nests.
