About 150 students from 24 Northern California schools gathered Saturday at Sacramento State for the 29th annual Nature Bowl competition.

FORT BRAGG – Train tunnel No. 1 on the old California Western Railroad has endured a lot of punishment since it was hacked out of the serpentine and metasandstone rock east of Fort Bragg by Chinese and Italian laborers a century ago.

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — California Lottery officials say two Powerball tickets sold in California have five of the six winning numbers.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Thousands of steel tendons used to strengthen the skyway portion of the new eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge were exposed during construction to rainfall and salty bay mist, leading to corrosion concerns.

SANTA ANA, Calif. — A motive remains unclear in the slaying of 36-year-old Army veteran and soon-to-be college graduate Maribel Ramos, whose body was found in a remote Orange County canyon.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sunbathers flocking to Southern California beaches are used to feeding the meter or paying a parking attendant. Not so along the less developed north coast where it's customary to ditch cars on the shoulder of Highway 1 to surf, swim or picnic.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Inmates at jails in Indianapolis, Baltimore, St. Louis and Philadelphia face the nation's highest levels of sexual abuse at the hands of guards, according to a new federal report based on surveys of inmates at U.S. jails and prisons.

REDLANDS, Calif. (AP) — Redlands police are looking for a man who pulled over a school bus, flashed a badge and told the driver he was a police officer.

About 150 students from 24 northern California schools gathered at CSU Sacramento Saturday for the 29th annual Nature Bowl competition.

Sunny skies and warm temperatures will continue to dominate the Sacramento weather scene.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California law that requires all semiautomatic handguns to be equipped with technology that stamps a code with the weapon's make, model and serial number on bullet casings is now in effect after years of delays.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Two earthquakes rattled the far Northern California coast Saturday morning, but authorities say there are no reports of damage or injuries.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — There are no reports of damage or injuries after a 4.3 magnitude earthquake hit off the coast of Northern California.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — With the unofficial kickoff to summer looming, the issue of parking at California state beaches is heating up.

I worked as a volunteer on May 11 as a fellow University of California Cooperative Extension Master Gardener, emptying and refilling the Downtown flower pots.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California will become the first state to offer voter registration through its health insurance marketplace later this year.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — It's been less than 10 months since the world record for a lottery prize. On Saturday night, it could conceivably fall once again.

Middle and high school students from the north state compete Friday at Rancho Seco Lake in the Northern California Solar Regatta for sun-powered boats.

California newspapers have a legal right to publish the names of children who are subjected to abuse if a name is newsworthy, a Sacramento appellate court ruled Friday.

The Tokay 1913 is a paperbound Lodi Union High School yearbook, about the size of a small town's thin telephone book. It's a glimpse into the past a century ago when student life was much like it is today and yet so different.

In the last half a dozen years, Arcohe Union Elementary School District has lost more than a quarter of its students due to declining enrollment.

Founding Elder Cliff Shirk has retired as an elder at Beth Hallel Messianic Fellowship, a Jewish group that believes Jesus is the Messiah.

Garry Pace

A memorial service for Garry Dee Pace, 63, of Lodi, who died May 13, will be held at 11 a.m. today at Lodi Memorial Cemetery, 5750 E. Pine St., Lodi.

Sacramento's UC Davis Medical Center and four other large University of California hospitals have begun canceling elective surgeries because of a two-day strike planned by some workers next week.

STOCKTON - The California Highway Patrol's Warrant Service Team served a search warrant and found a fugitive hiding in the attic of a home in the 8300 block of Colonial Drive about 7:30 a.m. Friday, authorities said.