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With a record number of layoffs during the first five months of the year, many Californians are deep in worry, trying to figure out how to keep themselves and their families covered.

Jennifer Keen and Paul Sousa had never read the Vows column before they were featured. The recovering addicts said there was too much meth to smoke (her), heroin to shoot up (him) and prison time to serve (him again).

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders have agreed on a way to cut school funding while avoiding a politically unpopular suspension of the state's constitutional guarantee for education, Democratic negotiators said Wednesday.

A life was lost and another perhaps found on a downtown-bound bus in Sacramento last weekend.

Tina Fey's satire-rich sitcom, "30 Rock," received a leading 22 Emmy Award nominations today, while the '60s retro series "Mad Men" led the drama pack with 16 bids.

With temperatures hovering at 100 degrees, ground-level ozone forming and the lack of any breeze to move it along, air quality will reach dangerous levels throughout the Sacramento region today and Friday, officials said.

Northern Californians probably feel like they can't catch a break in this economy, but they're getting just that when it comes to energy costs.

Barraged by public criticism, the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors ordered staff Tuesday to find $10 million to restore 70 sheriff's deputies' jobs.

Bridge and highway builder C.C. Myers, forced into personal bankruptcy over a troubled real estate deal, is about to lose his ownership stake in the Rancho Cordova contracting company that bears his name and has defined his career.

Fewer than 100 consumers out of a million covered in a class-action lawsuit settled in Sacramento Superior Court have redeemed coupons to buy a new Ford, but that hasn't stopped their lawyers from cashing in on a sweet payday.

A massive deflationary spiral that has pushed home values down by half or more from their housing boom highs is now destabilizing pricing at large apartment communities across the capital region.

California will not impose a two-tier pension system promising lower benefits to future state workers as part of any wide-ranging deal to solve its $26.3 billion budget shortfall, The Bee has learned.

With the economy tumbling on spin cycle and consumer spending stuck on low, it wouldn't seem like good times for the home appliance industry.

Neighbors said the woman was meticulous in maintaining their Elk Grove neighborhood, helping to trim weeds and clear leaves from her neighbors' lawns.

Urban Sacramento is the leading source of pesticide contamination disrupting the Delta aquatic environment, according to new research on pollution in the estuary.

At Camp Quest, campers may not believe in God, but they do have faith in their community.

Merced County beekeeper Gene Brandi says he had enough problems before getting ensnared in the nasty war of words between Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Legislature over California's failure to cure its staggering budget deficit.

Sacramento police asked a group of about 100 homeless campers Monday to leave the vacant lot where they had pitched their tents for three days.

Large businesses are cutting local employees at a record-setting pace, often flooding the market with workers possessing nearly identical skills – who then have to compete with each other for scarce jobs.

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said Friday she is resigning from office at the end of the month, raising speculation that she would focus on a run for the White House in the 2012 race.

In calm, measured testimony, a Sacramento teenager described to a grand jury how a woman who claimed to be his mother took him to a stranger's home in Tracy and then helped torture him for more than a year.