Smoke From King Fire Cancels Ironman Tahoe Events
Ironman races in Lake Tahoe were canceled on Sunday due to smoke and unhealthy air quality from a northern California wildfire.
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Ironman races in Lake Tahoe were canceled on Sunday due to smoke and unhealthy air quality from a northern California wildfire.
Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law several bills designed to boost use of clean-air vehicles in California.
State officials say some 55 tons of trash was removed from the California's drought-stricken waterways during the Great Sierra River Cleanup.
Gov. Jerry Brown has signed a bill allowing local governments to impose a vehicle registration surcharge to pay for bike lanes and trails.
Assessment teams hope to get an idea Saturday of just how many structures have been damaged or destroyed by a massive wildfire that threatens thousands of homes in Northern California.
Authorities in Central California are on the hunt for five inmates who have escaped a correctional facility.
The driver of the van pleaded guilty to stealing a van and will spend the next two years in a state prison.
The El Dorado County District Attorney's Office says the tougher penalties will not apply to Wayne Allen Huntsman even if he is convicted. That's because the King Fire burning west of Lake Tahoe started before the bill became law.
In his messages to Democratic Sens. Lois Wolk of Davis and Ricardo Lara of Bell Gardens, Brown said it would be prudent to leave the issue to the private sector rather than legislate it.
"If I'm not being investigated for a crime, there shouldn't be a secret police file on me" that details "where I go, where I shop, where I visit," said Michael Robertson, a tech entrepreneur fighting in court for access to his own files. "That's crazy, Nazi police-type stuff."
The blaze in steep terrain forced the evacuation of 2,800 people and burned multiple structures in the White Meadows area of Pollock Pines. On Friday, it threatened a key University of California, Berkeley research station that is home to scores of experiments on trees, plants and other wildlife.
New data shows that the percentage of California seniors passing the high school exit exam required for graduation matched last year's results.
The state Department of Food and Agriculture has approved standards for grading and labeling California-produced olive oil that will require makers to state specifically whether they have adulterated any of their product.
California's unemployment rate is unchanged for a third month, holding at 7.4 percent in August.
California's first cases of the uncommon respiratory infection enterovirus D68 have been reported by San Diego County health authorities.
