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Most Tahoe National Forest campgrounds – even those in the high country – have opened in time for the Memorial Day holiday. […]

With a sense of urgency, Sacramento and Solano County officials were tracking down the parents of 35 babies Tuesday, warning them that the infants had been exposed to tuberculosis while housed in two hospital neonatal intensive care units. cadaceus […]

The body of a sky diver was recovered Tuesday morning from the waters of Lake Tahoe. […]

A Sacramento federal judge has ordered damages of more than $2 million assessed against two California Highway Patrol officers, the agency itself, and the state in the death of a 21-year-old Stockton man. CHP logo […]

Investigators continue to look into the cause of a fatal crop-duster crash Monday morning that claimed the life of a Sacramento man near East Nicolaus in Sutter County. The wreckage of a crop-duster that crashed, killing pilot Nathaniel Alan Brown, 50, of Sacramento, lies in a rice paddy Monday as officials investigate. […]

At the height of the housing bubble, Plumas Lake seemed like a good deal to buyers willing to trade a long commute for a big house. A construction trailer, apparently unused by Lennar in some time, is surrounded by weeds in the Plumas Lake subdivision in Yuba County. Glen Van Dyke, an attorney for Plumas Lake subdivision homeowners who are suing builder Lenn […]

Nevada County Habitat for Humanity is seeking volunteers to participate in a blitz build during six days in June. […]

Parks officials in the Truckee-Donner area are seeking community input on the feasibility of a performing arts center in the area. […]

Airmen saluted as a procession escorted the remains of U.S. Army Spc. Chase Stone Marta of Yuba City on arrival Wednesday at Beale Air Force Base. A procession escorts the remains of U.S. Army Spc. Chase Stone Marta on arrival at Beale Air Force Base Wednesday. Chase Stone Marta […]

Robert E. Coyle, who served more than two decades as a federal judge and was the prime mover behind federal courthouses in Sacramento and Fresno, died Monday from complications of Alzheimer's disease. He was 82. Robert Coyle was appointed by Ronald Reagan and served for over two decades. […]

BOSTON — Harvard University alumni attending their 50th-anniversary class reunion this week are getting updates on classmates - including Unabomber Ted Kaczynski. Kaczynski graduated in 1962 and is locked up in the federal Supermax prison in Colorado for killing three people and injuring 23 during a nationwide bombing spree between ... […]

Washington Times Senior Editor for Opinion Emily Miller was awarded the Clark Mollenhoff Award for Investigative Reporting from the Institute on Political Journalism. The Mollenhoff award was given to Ms. Miller for her "Emily Gets Her Gun" series, which ultimately resulted in review of onerous gun regulations by Washington, D.C., ... […]

A record low 41 percent of Americans identify themselves as "pro-choice" on abortion, according to a poll released Wednesday, while the number of Americans who say they are "pro-life" bounced back into the majority. The results from the Gallup Poll survey confirm a sharp turnaround in personal attitudes about abortion ... […]

CHICAGO — Patrick J. Fitzgerald, known as one of the most relentless U.S. attorneys in the nation and the architect of convictions against two Illinois governors and a former vice-presidential aide, announced Wednesday that he is stepping down from the post he has held for more than a decade in ... […]

By expanding its "Race to the Top" education grant contest to the district level, the Obama administration has left some state education chiefs feeling elbowed out, saying Washington is trying to establish itself as the national school board. "They're calling for the local leadership to report directly to the federal ... […]

Driving onto an interstate highway? Crossing a bridge on the way into work? Taking a tunnel under a river or bay? Get ready to pay. With Congress unwilling to contemplate an increase in the federal gas tax, motorists are likely to be paying ever more tolls as governments at all ... […]

Some tolling authorities have found a way to give local motorists a break on tolls - while charging out-of-towners a higher rate for using the same roads and bridges. The E-ZPass electronic toll reading system used by 24 tolling agencies in 14 states in the Northeast and Midwest is able ... […]

HONOLULU — Deer can swim, but not very far. When they showed up for the first time on the Big Island of Hawaii, mystified residents wondered how they got there. The island is some 30 miles southeast of Maui, where deer are plentiful. Hawaii wildlife authorities think someone dropped a ... […]

To get attention on Capitol Hill, Ted Shpak had to ditch the jacket and tie. "I get more respect wearing jeans," said the 64-year-old Vietnam veteran and president of Rolling Thunder Washington, D.C., which this weekend will hold its 25th annual motorcycle rally to bring attention to American service members ... […]

For Walt Koren, it would be easier to know that his old friend is dead. Instead, he's lived with uncertainty for 41 years. Whether William Patrick Millner, an Army Air Cavalry pilot in Vietnam and high school classmate of Mr. Koren's, survived a crash landing in Laos in 1971, and ... […]

CHICAGO (AP) — Patrick Fitzgerald, one of the most feared U.S. attorneys in the nation and the architect of convictions against two Illinois governors and a former vice presidential aide, announced Wednesday that he is stepping down from the post he has held for more than a decade in Chicago. Mr. ... […]

WASHINGTON — Driving onto an Interstate highway? Crossing a bridge on the way into work? Taking a tunnel under a river or bay? Get ready to pay. With Congress unwilling to contemplate an increase in the federal gas tax, motorists are likely to be paying ever more tolls as the ... […]