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The Carnival Splendor passes under the Golden Gate Bridge as it arrives in San Francisco Bay.

The Omnibus Appropriations Act that passed the House on Thursday included science, education and transportation projects for the Central Coast, including $800,000 for the Monterey Bay Coastal Recreation Trail.

First, I want to commend the state park staff for maintaining Seacliff State Beach in pristine condition.

The antiwar community that helped put Barack Obama in the White House is now among his biggest skeptics.

I wear many different hats in Santa Cruz County. Because I believe strongly it is my obligation to give back, I involve myself in a cross-section of work with children as a Boys and Girls Club board member, in the Queer community as chairwoman of Out in Our Faith, in my synagogue Temple Beth El, where I served as president, and in politics as an ...

The Most Transparent Administration Ever won't keep this list. The Most Ethical Congress ever won't keep it either.

Reporting from Washington - Contained in the nearly 2,000-page House healthcare bill is a little-noticed provision -- worth $300 million to California -- that would increase federal Medicare payments to doctors in a wide swath of the state in response to complaints that low reimbursement rates have kept them from taking new patients.

U.S. Rep. Sam Farr, D-Carmel, testified Tuesday afternoon in Washington, D.C., in support of the Pinnacles National Park Act .

Many soldiers returning home from Afghanistan and Iraq are coming home with traumatic brain injuries.

Salmon spawning in the US Northwest - a weakened phenomenon. 19 views 2 Recommendations 5 comments Salmon spawning in the US Northwest - a weakened phenomenon in the Sacramento River these days due to a recent stocks collapse there.

Well, it could have been worse. After another depressing round of lousy unemployment statistics, and local elections in which most of those bothering to show up voted their fears, not their dreams, the Obama administration scored a badly needed victory as the health care reform bill passed its first major hurdle.

The infrastructure at Fort Ord is about to get a face lift, compliments of the federal government.

Congressman Sam Farr today introduced legislation to create a separate funding source for the Big Sur portion of the Los Padres National Forest and add portions of five local rivers to the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System.

City leaders on Tuesday will consider supporting federal legislation that would ease citizenship requirements for exemplary teens living in the United States illegally.

It's 8pm on Election Night, and some 75 party-goers at Hola!, a Mexican restaurant in the Carmel Barnyard, nosh greasy appetizers and sip neon margaritas.

Politics are Crippling California's Serv... In addition to being a lifeline for needy disabled Californians, the state Department of Social Services' In-Home Supportive Services program is a cash cow for Democrats.

Last week, the Justice Department announced it would no longer prosecute medical marijuana users who abide by state laws.

Think of Salinas' gang crisis as a loaded 9-millimeter handgun. A week rarely goes by without a young gang member squeezing the trigger, taking aim at another kid.

Bob Egelko: Feds vs. state pot war down the road? Now that the Obama administration says it won't arrest medical marijuana patients and suppliers who are following their own state laws, a Northern California congressman wants the same leeway for those who are already being prosecuted.

Raw sewage contains disease pathogens and toxins, impairs the respiratory functions in water life, and causes algae blooms.