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Mayor Kevin Johnson and other local officials today announced a new campaign that will lobby the state and federal governments to provide more funding to local infrastructure projects that defend cities from extreme weather.

Reports have emerged that Napa's BottleRock festival, which was held May 9 - 12, is facing some financial issues that could prevent this event from happening again.

UC Davis professor Daniel Sperling, one of the nation's most influential transportation thinkers and policymakers, is the recipient of the 2013 Blue Planet Prize, sometime called the Nobel Prize for environmental science.

Rancho Cordova will continue to contract with the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department for law enforcement services for at least three more years while continuing to evaluate other options for police services.

A 16-year-old Davis boy is being held without bail in the April stabbing deaths of longtime attorney and musician Oliver Northup and wife Claudia Maupin after police arrested him Monday.

Sacramento County health authorities are investigating an outbreak of hepatitis A that may be associated with a frozen berry blend sold at Costco.

Orchard Supply Hardware, the home- improvement chain from San Jose, filed for bankruptcy protection Monday, creating uncertainty for its stores in Sacramento and elsewhere.

It's a sad fact of modern American consumer life. Every time we swipe a piece of plastic at a gas station, grocery store or anywhere else, we're vulnerable to cyberpickpockets.

The founder of "Eppie's Great Race" today handed Sacramento County Supervisors a check for $31,815, bringing his total contributions to the county to more than $1 million.

A planning document intended to resolve decades of water conflict in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta was instead greeted by a flood of lawsuits on Monday.

A Southern California mortgage company is opening an office in Sacramento, bringing 200 jobs.

The new state Department of Motor Vehicles office in Roseville is scheduled to open Monday, June 24, officials said.

A man who stabbed and bludgeoned his mother to death nine years ago has been recommended for placement in a community group home by a state-contracted agency.

The California Disabled Veteran Business Alliance, a nonprofit that for nearly 20 years has helped disabled military personnel become entrepreneurs and business owners, has moved into larger offices in the Natomas area.

A man was arrested on suspicion of homicide and various other charges for allegedly tossing a firebomb into a Rio Linda home last night.

Galt police need help in identifying a trigger-happy robber who held up a convenience store this morning.

With the California 2013 State Fair Wine Competition announcing many of its winners last week, it's time to put all that tasting and medal-awarding to good use.

Federal officials are seeking public comments on a new contract allowing the Woodland-Davis Clean Water Agency to withdraw 10,000 acre-feet of water per year from the Sacramento River.

Paramount Equity Mortgage will host a free job fair Saturday at its Roseville headquarters.

Sacramento-based Blue Diamond Growers today opened the first phase of its new manufacturing and processing plant in Turlock.

There's a new app for that if you want to contact the Sacramento Police Department.

Roseville police will be training today at three city campuses with student actors and scenarios that mimic an actual school shooting.

Look for the next two days to be cool and breezy in the Sacramento region.

Pop artist Tennessee Loveless took up the challenge of painting what Sacramento's all about, and this weekend you can judge whether he nailed it.

The fate of Horizon Charter School and its 2,700 students is in the hands of Western Placer Unified's school board after allegations of fiscal mismanagement and complaints from parents.

Kerry Kassis opened Slocum House in Fair Oaks Village in May 1986 and ran it for 23 years, taking it from an aspiring but underperforming restaurant to one of the great dining destinations in the region.

One of the architects of California's fire district law has advice for a Herald fire board member ousted by colleagues last month: Continue serving as if nothing happened.

Former board members of the Newcastle Fire Protection District wasted taxpayer money by neglecting repairs at a damaged fire station, resulting in needless spending on temporary housing for firefighters and on a costly special election, according to the Placer County grand jury.

California Highway Patrol air rescuers battled windy conditions to pluck two stranded teenagers from a 8,600-foot-high cliff in the Sierra Buttes Saturday.

GenCorp Inc., parent of Rancho Cordova rocket-maker Aerojet, on Monday announced that Warren Boley Jr. has been named president of newly formed Aerojet Rocketdyne Inc.