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Wild horse management will be among the topics scheduled for discussion when two citizens advisory councils for the federal Bureau of Land Management meet in a three-day session scheduled to start Wednesday. Two wild horses battle after a roundup for the U.S. Bureau of Land Management in August 2010 on the high desert near Susanville in Lassen County. […]

West Lake Tahoe residents and visitors can expect to see smoke from a prescribed fire operation the next few days. […]

Fourteen construction companies are on the short list of firms poised to bid for contracts to begin building California's high-speed rail system in the Fresno area later this year. California high-speed rail supporters rally outside a board meeting on Thursday in Sacramento. The California High-Speed Rail Authority on Thursday appoints Dan Richard, cent […]

Beginning Monday and throughout the week, Lake Tahoe residents and visitors can expect to see smoke from prescribed fire operations in various areas. […]

A Sacramento federal judge heard arguments Thursday and will rule later on The Bee's objections to sealing documents that allegedly contain evidence of misconduct and fraud on the part of U.S. Forest Service employees. […]

A Sacramento federal judge is scheduled to hear arguments today on a Bee challenge to sealing documents in a legal slugfest between the government and Sierra Pacific Industries over the origin of a monster wildfire in 2007 and who should pay for the devastation it wrought. The Moonlight fire left trees bare in Plumas County. A logger says the U.S. overestima […]

An hourlong meeting Monday between Randy Pew, a Plumas County logger, and Randy Moore, regional forester for the U.S. Forest Service, resulted in no specific solutions. […]

The Supreme Court on Monday struck down California's ban on the slaughter of downed swine, saying the law strayed too far into federal territory. […]

One person was arrested and nine others received notices to appear in court during a Contractors State License Board sting operation in Amador County. […]

Last Wednesday, two yearling male bears got a second chance after being found last spring, injured and emaciated, in South Lake Tahoe. Tom Millham carries a sedated 1-year-old bear cub in preparation for its release into the wild after the orphan was cared for by Lake Tahoe Wildlife Care. The cub's vital signs are measured by state biologists. State wil […]

BISMARCK, N.D. — The University of North Dakota will resume using its contentious Fighting Sioux nickname despite threats from the NCAA, the school's president said Wednesday, marking the latest twist in a years-long fight about a name that some consider offensive. A state law was repealed last year that required ... […]

NEW ORLEANS — The Federal Emergency Management Agency announced Wednesday that it is rolling out a plan to waive debts for many victims of Hurricane Katrina and other disasters who may have mistakenly received millions of dollars in aid. The debts, which average about $4,622 per recipient, represent slightly less ... […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks were down Wednesday morning as frustrations mounted over whether Greece will hammer out the cost-cutting deal it needs to keep from defaulting on its debt. After climbing in early trading, the Dow Jones industrial average was down 45 points to 12,833 shortly before noon. The ... […]

WASHINGTON — A new passenger screening program to make check-in more convenient for certain travelers is being expanded to 28 more major U.S. airports, the government said Wednesday. There will be no cost to eligible passengers, who would no longer have to remove their shoes and belts before they board ... […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Officials at a Los Angeles school rocked by teacher sex-abuse claims are investigating yet another allegation of misconduct, this one involving a teacher's aide accused of sending love letters to an 11-year-old boy. The boys' mother told the Los Angeles Times newspaper that the aide, a ... […]

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A central Missouri teenager who confessed to strangling, cutting and stabbing a 9-year-old girl because she wanted to know how it felt to kill someone was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison with the possibility of parole. Alyssa Bustamante, 18, pleaded guilty in January to second-degree ... […]

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Conservative critics like to point out that the federal appeals court that just declared California's same-sex-marriage ban to be unconstitutional has its decisions overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court more often than other judicial circuits, a record that could prove predictive if the high court agrees ... […]

SHIPPENSBURG, Pa. — Students at a central Pennsylvania university can now obtain the "morning-after" contraceptive pill from an unusual source — a vending machine at the campus health center. Students at Shippensburg University can obtain the pill by sliding $25 into a vending machine installed at the request of the ... […]

ATLANTA | Bread and rolls are the No. 1 source of salt in the American diet, accounting for more than twice as much sodium as salty junk food like potato chips. That surprising finding comes in a government report released Tuesday that includes a list of the top 10 sources ... […]

LOS ANGELES — The entire staff at a Los Angeles elementary school is being removed while authorities investigate horrific allegations of sexual abuse by two of the school's teachers, one of whom is accused of blindfolding children, taping their mouths and photographing them in a classroom. Los Angeles Unified School ... […]

A federal appeals court declared California's ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional Tuesday, requiring the state to recognize such unions and setting the stage for a showdown before the Supreme Court. The three-member panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 that Proposition 8, a voter-passed state constitutional ... […]

ATLANTA (AP) — Bread and rolls are the No. 1 source of salt in the American diet, accounting for more than twice as much sodium as snacks such as potato chips and pretzels. That surprising finding comes in a government report released Tuesday that includes a list of the top ... […]