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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.

The California health exchange is giving the names of tens of thousands of consumers to insurance agents without their knowledge.

Armed with a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling, a federal appeals court on Monday will revisit a controversial legal challenge to California's law allowing collection of DNA samples from anyone arrested for a felony.

The mother of a 20-year-old Newport Beach woman killed in South Africa in 1993 says Nelson Mandela taught her family a lesson in forgiveness that continues to this day.

Santa Cruz County residents searching for doctors with the Palo Alto Medical Foundation on the Covered California website will come up empty.

Researchers say the official noisemakers for next year's World Cup soccer tournament in Brazil will be significantly quieter than the vuvuzela horns that caused so many headaches in 2010.

North Korea said Saturday it has deported a 85-year-old California grandfather and war veteran who was detained for more than a month for alleged hostile acts against the country.

Fire officials say a California woman who survived a blaze that killed her husband and two of her children has been released from the hospital.

Tulare County Agricultural and Standards inspector Christopher Greer collects frozen oranges for future inspection during a cold snap affecting the San Joaquin Valley citrus crop Friday, Dec. 6, 2013 in Traver, Calif.

Icicles hang off oranges as growers use water to help keep the orchard warm during freezing weather on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013, in Del Rey, Calif.

A man linked to a Mexican drug cartel will be sentenced Friday in San Diego after pleading guilty to attempted murder in a plot to kill a couple in Southern California.