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The head of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra was named the next president of the Kennedy Center and will become the first woman to lead the performing arts center since it opened in 1971, officials said Tuesday.

Deborah Rutter, answers questions during a news conference in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2013, after Kennedy Center Chairman David M. Rubenstein announced the selection Rutter as a new president of the Kennedy Center.

A regional or countywide flood protection district dedicated to sea level disaster preparations should be assembled immediately, according to a group of nearly 400 people who packed a College of San Mateo auditorium today.

For the first time in 44 years, a clear majority of California voters favors legalizing marijuana, a new Field Poll found.

Already scrambling to meet a Dec. 23 deadline to sign up as many Californians as possible with insurance plans under the new federal healthcare law, the state's online exchange is confronting a potential delay over a backlog of 25,000 paper applications that must be re-submitted online.

Auto theft increased significantly in California and other property crimes also rose after the state began an initiative resulting in more inmates being released early, according to the first independent study of crime trends driven by the "realignment" program to reduce the state prison population.

There is little doubt an economic bonanza awaits California beneath the surface of the Monterey Shale, a geologic formation stretching from San Benito County south along the west side of the San Joaquin Valley right into parts of Southern California.

Boeing Co. workers stand on platforms as they wave at their last C-17 Globemaster III cargo jet built for the U.S. Air Force as it flies away at the aerospace company's plant in Long Beach, Sept.

California pledged on Monday to restore 80,000 acres of the depleted Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta as part of a massive project to send fresh water from mountain streams in the north to farmers and residents in the parched south.

Gay rights activists are demanding the organizers of a Vietnamese new year's parade in Orange County allow them to march.

The Santa Rosa Press Democrat reports Deputy Erick Gelhaus will be on a desk assignment while the Sonoma County district attorney reviews an investigative report and determines whether he committed criminal wrongdoing.

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The Northern California Bluegrass Society has announced that the 2014 Lifetime Achievement Awards will honor four long-time bluegrass music teachers - Bill Evans, Steve Palazzo, Jack Tuttle, and Lee Anne Welch.

Californians of a certain age love their Mustangs, as Ford Motor Co. surely understood when it unveiled the 50th-anniversary edition of the iconic muscle car last week.

California Craft Beer is proof that good beer can overcome daunting adversity. Located on the fringes of Fremont, California Craft Beer has to work extra hard to attract the attention of beer distributors more inclined to spend their time cultivating the already robust beer market to the north in Oakland and Berkeley, and in the south, where they ... (more)

An impressionistic painter and her jazz musician husband left California for their native Kentucky to make a home and studio on the recently lifeless Bridge Street in Frankfort.

On Friday morning, Richard Pollock at the Washington Examiner broke an important story about the the large number of doctors choosing not to participate in Covered California, the state's Obamacare exchange.

The California Chamber of Commerce represents more than 13,000 businesses, from companies such as Microsoft and Walt Disney, to local companies with small numbers of employees.

Before his 2009 inauguration, newly elected President Barack Obama made a public pledge not to accept money for the celebration from representatives of foreign interests.

Covered California, this state’s system, has not seen the breakdowns the federal site suffered.