NASA Launches Earth-Observing Satellite, Trail Seen Across Region
A NASA satellite lifted off early Saturday with the hope it will transmit data that will help the world do a better job of preparing for floods and droughts.
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A NASA satellite lifted off early Saturday with the hope it will transmit data that will help the world do a better job of preparing for floods and droughts.
Final campaign totals reported Friday show Republican candidate Neel Kashkari spent $7.1 million compared to $5.9 million for the Democratic governor.
Visitors to Yosemite National Park will pay more to enter and camp overnight, under fee hikes that start March 1.
California prisons held 162,804 inmates in 2006, more than twice as many inmates as they were designed to house.
The survey on Thursday found a snowpack water equivalent of just 2.3 inches in the scant snowpack near Echo Summit, about 90 miles east of Sacramento.
An ex-Mexican Mafia leader serving life in prison for murder was escorted by police to speak at a gathering of police chiefs and business leaders in Los Angeles.
The Boy Scouts of America settled a sex abuse case Thursday involving a 20-year-old California man who was molested by a Scout volunteer in 2007 - a decision that will keep years' worth of "perversion" files detailing sex abuse allegations secret from the public.
The state Department of Water Resources says it expects to find below-normal snowpack when it carries out the winter's second survey in the Sierra Nevada.
Court documents show agents on Tuesday searched former California Public Utilities Commission President Michael Peevey's home in La Canada Flintridge of Michael Peevey. They seized computers, smart phones and a small data-storage device
The innovation could dramatically reduce costs for cancer treatments, food production and other segments of the $160 billion global biotechnology industry.
A moderate earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.7 has struck off the coast of Northern California.
California health officials say electronic cigarettes are a health threat, especially to children, and should be strictly regulated like tobacco products.
A new financial report says California's comeback due mostly to the state's spending reductions rather than recent tax gains.
The National Transportation Safety Board said in the decade since the government set rules for pipeline inspections in "high consequence" areas where an explosion is likely to hurt people or destroy buildings, there appears to have been a slight leveling off of such incidents, but no decline.
The funk legend was awarded damages in a breach-of-contract suit that claimed his business partners and his own company cheated him out of royalties.
