California

Senate Democratic leader Darrell Steinberg will be at Assemblyman Roger Dickinson's side when he announces his candidacy for Steinberg's Sacramento-area Senate seat on Wednesday. Steinberg's support is a major coup for fellow Democrat Dickinson, who ...

The chairman of California's Citizens Compensation Commission has concluded personally that data supports full restoration of cuts made to state elected officials' salaries the past four years - but he hasn't decided whether to vote that way Wednesday....

Gov. Jerry Brown did his best fundraising of the year last week, collecting in two days about what he raised in the previous three months. Of the nearly $253,000 raised by the Democratic governor last week, slightly less than half came from a group of...

By Chris CrutchfieldIt’s extremely encouraging that the popularity of California Calrose rice is really burgeoning among consumers in South Korea.  In 2004 this was a market that was importing low quality brown rice for processing from Californi...

California's Capitol is full of hard-drinking, skirt-chasing, and corrupt hypocrites - or so Dianne Harman, the wife of a former state senator, would have readers of her new novel, "Tea Party Teddy," believe. The title character is "Teddy Randall," n...

Digital have-nots in very rural or remote locations in New Zealand, Africa, South America and Australia, take heart!  Google has been experimenting with a technology that uses high altitude balloons... Read more »

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Pledging to curb the political influence of big-money donors and update California's voting infrastructure, activist and former Common Cause vice president Derek Cressman announced today his candidacy for California secretary of state. Cressman join...

Los Angeles June 18, 2013 - The Bureau of Land Management released a new recreational plan today for California's Algodones Dunes that will open up almost 50,000 additional acres of land, including important habitat for rare and vanishing species, to u...

June 17, 2013 - A new super PAC called "Empower Central Valley" has registered with the Federal Election Commission, listing its address in California's 10th Congressional District, which is represented by sophomore Rep. Jeff Denham, a Republican. Las...

SANTA MONICA, Calif. June 17, 2013 – Exide Technologies has won a temporary reprieve that prevents the Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) from enforcing its shutdown of the company's Vernon plant. That means the lead battery recycler can r...