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Chair of the California Air Resources Board Mary Nichols provides comments after touring a Sacramento Valley rice farm.

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Owners of some Downtown Plaza shops are wondering where they will go, assuming a new arena is built on the site.

As a Sacramento Kings fan, Dane Sorensen has mixed emotions.  He is a manager at Zuhg Life, …

Rice grower Tom Butler of Robbins says despite some delays due to strong winds, this planting season is well ahead of recent years. More about Tom: Tom Butler farms rice with his father, Steve, in Sutter and Yolo Counties. Tom is the fourth generation...

Most everybody knows that agriculture is the chief driver of Yuba County's economy. The county's 2011 crop was nearly $213 million, shattering the previous record in 2009 by some $14 million. While the jobless rate was rising and the bottom was...

This wool has a story - it comes from sheep that graze the hillsides, pasturelands and brushfields around my Sierra foothills home.This wool is shorn and skirted and rolled and sacked by the hands of my family and friends.This wool comes from sheep tha...

We are ahead of schedule for this rice season; a welcome change from recent years when spring rains brought delays.   I'm almost complete preparing my rice fields.  The water will be going on soon and airplanes should carry out the seedi...

Prospective college students and their parents have long had to navigate the world of financial aid, student loans and tuition to realize their higher education goals. A recent Princeton Review survey of high school seniors nationwide, however, found...

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Ideas to beautify Marysville's downtown offered by business owners embracing the city's Bounce Back plan range from the installation of tree guards to hanging flower baskets from light poles. About 35 business owners attended the meeting held by the...

When I grew vegetables for the farmers' markets, I always looked forward to the day (usually around Christmas) that my seed catalogs would arrive.  Farming at this scale (for me, at least) required a certain amount of amnesia - I found that I had ...