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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 […]

Fans of the Fighting Sioux have once again rescued the nickname and logo from extinction, at least for another four months. University of North Dakota President Robert Kelley said Wednesday that the school will resume using the Fighting Sioux after supporters turned in more than 17,000 signatures, well in excess ... […]

President Obama keeps tossing ideas to curb rising college tuition costs against the wall in the hope that a few will stick and re-energize young voters ahead of the November election, the Republican chairman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee contends. "That's a plea for the youth vote ... […]

One of Shippensburg University's most famous alumni on Wednesday blasted the school's decision to sell the morning-after contraceptive Plan B pill in a campus vending machine. "It's the wrong thing to do in my judgment. I don't think it's a good idea," Rep. John Kline, Minnesota Republican and chairman of ... […]

Boasting no color, no taste and no smell, the tap water from the Mount View-Edgewood Water Co. in Edgewood, Wash. (pop. 9,387) made a big splash, taking top honors Wednesday at the 13th annual national taste-test competition sponsored by the National Rural Water Association. "The taste was far superior - ... […]

PLACERVILLE, CALIF. — California's Gold Rush was more than a century-and-a-half ago, but its Wild West spirit lives on in a dispute between government agencies and a landowner in the Sierra Nevada foothills that some officials describe as one of the most egregious cases of illegal mining they have ... […]

ANALYSIS/OPINION: President Obama's decision to accelerate the U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan begs the question: What if the country again becomes a safe haven for terrorists? A recently leaked U.S. Army report for NATO shows that the Taliban believe they are winning and need only outlast us to regain control. ... […]

MISSOURI Teen gets life term in killing of 9-year-old JEFFERSON CITY | 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 ... […]

OLYMPIA, Wash. — Washington state lawmakers voted to approve gay marriage Wednesday, setting the stage for the state to become the seventh in the nation to allow same-sex couples to wed. The action comes a day after a federal appeals court declared California's ban on gay marriage unconstitutional, saying it ... […]

SEATTLE — A social worker pleaded with a 911 dispatcher throughout a nearly seven-minute call to quickly get police to Josh Powell's house after he locked himself inside with his two sons. It took almost two minutes from the start of the call for the dispatcher to learn Powell's address ... […]

The Obama administration's appointment of a public advocate for immigrant concerns about law enforcement policies makes a "mockery of the laws of the United States," the National Border Patrol Council said Wednesday. "The Obama administration took its next step toward amnesty for illegal aliens by naming an advocate for illegal ... […]

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The company that built the stage ahead of last summer's deadly Indiana State Fair collapse appeared to be indifferent to safety standards, the state Department of Labor said Wednesday. The agency cited Mid-America Sound Corp. with three major safety violations in connection with the collapse of outdoor ... […]

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 ... […]