Bee State News

The most powerful voices in the state's recent $11 billion water talks might have been two water districts – one speaking for half the state's population and the other for just 600 San Joaquin Valley farmers.

Furious over fee increases and emotionally charged by the arrests of 53 fellow students, a few hundred UC Davis students demanded action – and accountability – Friday from administrators and the campus police chief.

Two California prison system inmates have died from possible H1N1-related complications, officials said Wednesday.

Geologists from two national engineering firms will begin mapping the recently identified Polaris earthquake fault near Truckee.

Thirty-three banks across the country that received federal bailout money didn't pay the government a dividend this summer – and one-third of them are based in California, federal data show.

Several California-based banks either suspended or never paid the Department of Treasury dividends after getting bailout money under the Troubled Asset Relief Program in 2008 or 2009. They include:

When the state assumed full financial responsibility for the court system a decade ago, it was billed as a way of relieving pressure on county finances.

Steve Gándola, president and chief executive officer of the Sacramento Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, wants to count all Latinos in the 2010 census, including millions of noncitizens.

Peter Dailey, the Port of San Francisco's veteran maritime director, says he knows exactly when the cruise ship business became cool again in this historic seaport: Feb. 4, 2007.

The good news is California export numbers are trending up. The bad news is they aren't what they used to be.

Kash Gill, who as a boy rose before dawn to pick peaches in the broiling summer sun, has become the first Punjabi American mayor in Yuba City history.

The California Chamber of Commerce has received the presidential Excellence for Export Service Award, billed as the nation's highest award honoring U.S. exporters.

A record number of students are applying to attend California State University campuses next fall, and officials are urging those who haven't yet applied to get their paperwork in by the end of the month.

A CalPERS board member on Thursday produced a canceled check showing he paid $23,630 for a trip to London, Dubai and Hong Kong in 2006 after it was initially paid for by a Nevada businessman whose clients were seeking investments from California's giant public employee pension fund.

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.

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.

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.

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.