California

SACRAMENTO December 28, 2011 – State Controller John Chiang today released his final review of the City of Montebello, exposing possible pension spiking, payroll errors, a loose petty cash drawer, and systemic problems in the City's internal control...

SACRAMENTO December 28, 2011 - Pesticide use in California rose in 2010 after declining for four consecutive years, according to data released today by the Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR). More than 173 million pounds of pesticides were report...

LOS ANGELES, Calif. Dec. 27, 2011 - Love Honor Cherish (LHC) applauds the strong support for marriage equality among California's decline-to-state voters demonstrated in an independent poll conducted by the leading polling firm Tulchin Research on beha...

SAN FRANCISCO December 27, 2011 - Attorney General Kamala D. Harris announced today that her office, along with the offices of seven other attorneys general, has reached a $553 million settlement with manufacturers that engaged in price fixing of flat ...

Dec. 27, 2011 - The Bureau of Land Management today issued two Instructional Memorandums (IMs) that will help guide both immediate and longer-term conservation actions aimed at conserving the greater sage-grouse and its sagebrush habitat in 10 western ...

December 27, 2011, Sacramento, Calif. - Verizon has donated 11,000 pre-paid calling cards to the California Partnership to End Domestic Violence (the Partnership). The donation is part of the Verizon Foundation's ongoing Domestic Violence Initiative. ...

Dec. 26, 2011 - In a study published today in the scientific journal PNAS, NOAA scientists and their collaborators reported Pacific herring embryos in shallow waters died in unexpectedly high numbers following an oil spill in San Francisco Bay, and sug...

San Francisco, CA December 22, 2011 – Every year consumers leave up to $5 billion on unused gift-cards across the country. As California families wrap up their holiday shopping, last minute gift-cards are a popular choice, with over $100 billion in ...

December 26, 2011 - The 2007 Cosco Busan disaster, which spilled 54,000 gallons of oil into the San Francisco Bay, had an unexpectedly lethal impact on embryonic fish, devastating a commercially and ecologically important species for nearly two years,...

SACRAMENTO December 23, 2011 – Congress and President Obama have reauthorized the federal extensions of unemployment benefits for two months, sparing an estimated 1.1 million unemployed Californians from losing extension benefits after the New Year. ...