Bee State News

A series of free guided hikes will scan bald eagle habitat in the Cache Creek Natural Area on six successive Saturdays, Jan. 17 through Feb. 21.

NINEVAH PROVINCE, Iraq – The violence of his past deployments in Iraq still haunts Daniel Clemons, a 32-year-old National Guard staff sergeant from Sacramento who's back for his third tour.

State officials skipped a Wednesday deadline to release a plan to improve the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.

State and federal water officials are looking to build giant concrete gates across key channels in the west Delta to control water quality.

At 8 a.m. on a recent Wednesday you might have spotted Rebeka Willett on the Modesto Junior College campus. She was the 18-year-old in a Raiders T-shirt and jeans, giggling along with her classmates as she practiced arabesques in a dance class. You would have seen a student like any other: sleepy, but learning and enjoying herself.

There was never a question in Luciano Cortez's mind that he would dutifully practice his religion.

CHESTER – To encourage the public to get out into the woods in winter, Lassen National Forest is offering free snowshoe programs.

For up to seven years, California Liquid Fertilizer sold what seemed to be an organic farmer's dream, brewed from fish and chicken feathers.

The Bureau of Land Management has three vacancies on a national panel that advises federal agencies on the management of wild horses and burros that roam public lands.

The highway through Lassen Volcanic National Park is snowed in, but the park itself is anything but closed.

Like a motorist fixing up the old jalopy instead of buying a new car in precarious financial times, the state will try to eke out additional nautical miles from an aged Delta ferry.

To encourage the public to get out into the woods in winter, Lassen National Forest is offering two free snowshoe programs.

Recent storms have closed the road through Lassen Volcanic National Park for the winter.

A man has been arrested on suspicion of looting an ancient American Indian tribal village site – after his alleged actions were posted on the Internet.

Growing up, Joseph Paul Sanders had a relative who worked as a groundskeeper at the California Highway Patrol Academy in West Sacramento.

A head-on collision involving a big rig on Highway 12 about noon Tuesday killed a 39-year-old Lodi man and injured two other people, according to the California Highway Patrol.

Over the past week, letters of support have poured in to the San Diego Superior Court judge overseeing the murder trial involving the teenage son of former Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez and three of his friends.

Draped in six costumes and mourned by hundreds of relatives and friends, Pia Xiong started the journey Friday to the afterlife.

Political pressure is bearing down on a major study due Monday that could permanently restrict water exports from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to protect imperiled fish.

The bleeding, emaciated teenager who fled a Tracy home last week may have first crossed paths with one of his alleged abusers in infancy, when his mother and Caren Ramirez were neighbors in a crime-plagued West Sacramento apartment complex.

A federal bankruptcy court judge has blocked attempts by a nonprofit wine and food center in Napa to secure a $2 million emergency loan and stay open while it tries to reorganize $80 million in debts.

As the clock struck midnight, more than 100 people remained at a marathon Lodi City Council meeting on the future of a proposed Wal-Mart Supercenter.

A youth sports coach was formally charged Thursday with wielding a baseball bat against a teenager who authorities say was chained and tortured in a Tracy home for 18 months.

In a move that could have a profound impact in California, the Bush administration has changed the H-2A guest farmworker program.

On Tracy's Tennis Lane, where well-trimmed front yards bloom with roses, camellias and plastic holiday snowmen, the shocking revelations just keep coming.

The El Dorado Irrigation District announced that it is monitoring fish populations in Caples Creek, following emergency repairs at Caples Lake that required deviations from required stream flows.

Esteban Núñez, the son of former California Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez, is out of jail.

The classic fight over a Wal-Mart Supercenter in a California city has erupted anew in Lodi, where the issue is so hot that hundreds of residents are expected to pack tonight's City Council meeting.

The fourth person arrested in the case of a 16-year-old teen who fled a Tracy home last week with a chain attached to his ankle lived next door to two of the defendants.