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Sacramento area home prices stay flat in April

By Hudson Sangree - Updated: 2:01 pm

The median sale price for single-family detached resale homes in Sacramento County ticked upward in April for the fourth straight month, according to figures released this morning by DataQuick.

Sacramento gathering urges state to allow more solar projects

By Anne Gonzales - Updated: 1:24 pm

Businesspeople and workers from the state's burgeoning solar industry gathered at the Capitol on Wednesday to call for a change in state policy to allow more solar projects to be built in California.

New law allows Tracy, Calif., to buy land for solar project

New CEO takes over at The McClatchy Co.

By Mark Glover - Updated: 10:12 am

With a few swift sentences, The McClatchy Co.'s top management officially changed hands Wednesday.

Raley's union in Bay Area votes to authorize strike

By Tony Bizjak - Published: 12:00 am

In a surprise move, Raley's employees in the Bay Area and part of the Central Valley voted Wednesday to authorize a strike against the grocery chain, a spokesman for the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 5 said.

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Parent of Carl's Jr., Hardee's files for IPO

The Associated Press - Published: 6:14 pm

The owner of fast-food chains Carl's Jr. and Hardee's is planning to go public again, seeking to raise an estimated $100 million.

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Tide turns for TV sea adventure

Folsom's Steven Moll said he couldn't land one sponsor for his first season of "Dangerous Waters," the reality television show that has Moll and four buddies traversing the world's oceans on Sea-Doo personal watercraft.

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Personal Finance: Financial advisers adjust how they talk to women

By Claudia Buck - Published: Sunday, May 13 2012 - 12:00 am