Bee State News

Lt. Gov. John Garamendi will be sworn in today as the new congressman from the 10th Congressional District after winning Tuesday's special election to replace Rep. Ellen Tauscher.

Few businesses feel as threatened by global warming as the ski industry.

They hailed from towns and suburbs across America – small places like Elm Mott, Texas, and Decaturville, Tenn. Last week, their passion for aviation and serving others took them into the night sky above the Pacific Ocean. Off the Southern California coast, their fates tragically collided.

The call for help came into the U.S. Coast Guard's North Highlands air station at 3 p.m. Thursday. Auxiliarist Ron Clark watched as seven of his friends launched into action.

Tahoe National Forest officials have extended the woodcutting season from Sunday to Nov. 15 in the Truckee, Sierraville and American River ranger districts.

Rumbling off the airstrip at the old McClellan Air Force Base, they head out on missions as far away as the Galapagos Islands. They search for lost boaters, help with law enforcement, even rescue birds.

Here in California's high desert capital, the place to be last weekend – if you weren't one of the 8,000 residents behind bars – was the Susanville Swing Concert at the Veterans Memorial Hall.

A state appeals court has tossed out the conviction of a Chico teen who was charged with threatening to take a gun to school, kill a lot of people and then himself. The 16-year-old boy had texted that message to the girlfriend who had broken up with him.

In many ways, the famed houseboats of San Francisco Bay are floating anachronisms – historical markers of a housing trend that won't likely happen again, at least not here.

Dutch Flat isn't your normal ghost town. For one thing, living people reside there.

Northern California banks reported mixed results for the third quarter ended Sept. 30, with loan loss reserves taking a bite out of earnings.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced Wednesday that Yuba County will receive another $47.5 million in state bond money to finish levee repairs in the Plumas Lake basin.

It's a good time to be a casino regular.

Besides free buffets, gifts and shopping discounts, Sacramento-region casinos are offering other special promotions to keep customers coming.

Accused cop killer Columbus Allen Jr. II will be tried in Sacramento County, a Stanislaus County judge ruled last week.

QUINCY – A Plumas County jury has found Reyes Carrillo-Garcia guilty of murdering Jennifer Carmen Carrigan, of Chester, and Steven Daniel Furtado, of Willows.

Layoffs returned to California in a big way last month, suggesting a setback on the road to economic recovery.

FRESNO – A handful of experts are trying to prove what Rick Norsigian has suspected for years: that his garage-sale find of 60 glass photographic negatives are the early works of famed California photographer Ansel Adams.

FRESNO – In a recession, it seems, people eat more tortillas and stop buying flowers for their sweethearts.

WASHINGTON – Federal prosecutors revealed Friday that they will seek life imprisonment without possibility of parole for the man accused of murdering former intern Chandra Levy.