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A plan to restore salmon runs on California's Sacramento River also could help revive killer whale populations 700 miles to the north in Puget Sound, as federal scientists struggle to protect endangered species in a complex ecosystem that stretches along the Pacific coast from California to Alaska.

As lawmakers in cash-strapped states wrestled this year with revenues that kept on falling, both campaign promises and long-standing reform efforts got pushed to the side.

A 25-year-old man from California has set a new record in the International Hot Dog Eating Contest, in New York.

California lawmakers have little to celebrate this Fourth of July as talks continue on the state's ballooning deficit.

Michael Jackson: Josh dickey and Frank Baker are off, but monitoring and on cell.

This July 1, 2009 shows Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger listening to a question concerning his declaration of a fiscal emergency at a Capitol news conference in Sacramento, Calif.

The ex-wife of Michael Jackson has said she plans to fight for custody of the two children she had with the tragic pop icon.

It might take Californians a puff or two to get their heads around an apparent contradiction recently enshrined in state law.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has set Nov. 3 as the date of a special election for the Congressional seat vacated by former U.S. Rep.

Last November, more than 60 percent of voters on the San Francisco Peninsula supported a $9.9 billion bond measure to help pay for a high-speed rail line between San Francisco and the Los Angeles area.

Colin Daymude was out of work last year after his business failed and eagerly filed his taxes in mid-January, figuring he'd get his refund sooner.

Furlough Fridays are back at California's DMV offices. The California Department of Motor Vehicles announced Thursday that all its offices will be closed for three Fridays in July as part of Gov.

The investigation of Michael Jackson's death is widening as questions intensify about the drugs he took, the doctors who provided them and the actions of police.

"This downturn, even more so than previous downturns, really is affecting every state right now," said Brian Sigritz, a staff associate with the National Association of State Budget Officers.

The clogged tourist travel route between Southern California and Las Vegas has been designated a federal high-speed rail corridor, in a move that officials hope would signal increased cooperation between the regions on building speedier train travel.

A new class of pulsars detected by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is solving the mystery of previously unidentified gamma-ray sources and helping scientists understand the mechanisms behind pulsar emissions.

A year ago, the Brevard County Schools ran a robust summer program here, with dozens of schools bustling with teachers and some 14,000 children practicing multiplication, reading Harry Potter and studying Spanish verbs, all at no cost to parents.

The precise size of California's budget deficit has been a moving target since Tuesday, when lawmakers failed to pass stopgap measures to avoid IOUs.

A look at who wins and loses in Michael Jackson's 2002 will, which aims to move all of his estimated $500 million-plus assets into a private family trust.

In California, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a fiscal emergency and ordered state offices closed three days a month to save money as the state sank deeper into dysfunction.