Pacheco News

Reporting from Sacramento - Hurt by big investment losses, California's two biggest state-run pension funds lost top long-term credit ratings from Moody's Investors Service on the insurance they sell to municipal governments to make it easier for them to sell bonds.

Fresno and other Valley communities could see a dusting of snow late Monday as a Canadian cold front follows the first of a series of rainstorms expected to hit Central California this week, the National Weather Service said.

Share + Dec 4, 2009 8:07 am US/Pacific Real-Time Traffic Conditions Traffic Cam Network The California Highway Patrol issued traffic warnings late Thursday night and early Friday to advise motorists of heavy fog on four Bay Area bridges.

California's high-speed rail authority is adjusting its preferred route between the Central Valley and the San Francisco Bay area to comply with a judge's order.

James "Jimmy" Hughes, the only suspect arrested in a 1981 triple homicide known as the "Octopus Murders," will return to California to face charges of conspiracy and murder.

The California High-Speed Rail Commission board will likely decide to rescind the environmental process for the Pacheco Pass route on Thursday, and an advocacy group predicts the board will chuck the Pacheco Pass route entirely.

Six years ago, when I initially wrote about Capricious, an aged California goat cheese, it had recently won the Best of Show award at the American Cheese Society's prestigious competition - a startling development for a new cheese from novice cheesemakers.

Our very own Pat Giorni joins Kent Lauder in addressing the nuts and bolts of how high-speed rail should arrive on the Peninsula in this San Mateo Daily Journal opinion piece .

Reporting from Sacramento - California's huge public employee pension fund, under scrutiny after suffering billions of dollars in investment losses, is now investigating its own oversight of hedge fund deals.

With fewer people at the airports, gas prices slipping below $3, and many major freeway construction projects in the rearview mirror, travelers can expect a smoother Thanksgiving getaway, even though many more motorists will be hitting the road than a year ago.

A nationally known researcher and educator has been appointed to the Contra Costa County Board of Education, where she plans to contribute her knowledge to local schools.

Schools debut Latino achievement awards Latino students and their families excitedly entered the Milpitas High School auditorium on Oct.

Riverside County District Attorney Rod Pacheco was among four statewide co-chairs named today of Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman's Latino Coalition.

Reporting from Riverside - A major corruption probe led to the indictment Thursday of all but one member of the San Jacinto City Council on charges that included money laundering, bribery, fraud, perjury, conspiracy and filing false federal documents, prosecutors said.

The 2006 Republican primary for the Inland area's 65th Assembly District was one of several legislative campaigns that spring, seemingly just one more expensive intra-party brawl of candidates and special-interest spending.

"There will be pressure from different sides to step aside," said Max Neiman, senior fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California.

This month, anyone paid a wage in California should notice a few dollars missing from their paychecks.

Coachella Valley tourism officials reached out last week to what they hope will be a new market of visitors to the desert - and are eyeing more opportunities with a sales mission to China later this month.

Defending the University: A Teach-In on the Current Crisis * Part One: Panel Discussions & Speeches in Campbell Hall * Part Two: Breakout Workshops & Where Do We Go From Here? Discussion * Special Feature: Ruth Gilmore on budget-draining prison complex Continue for Complete schedule of Panels and Participants * Part One * Student Voices: Erica ...

Riverside County district attorney investigators are boycotting Ben Clark Public Safety Training Center after nine of their members were turned away from a county sheriff-run SWAT training class.