State Health Officer Urges Californians to Stay Safe in Extreme Heat
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Sacramento, California - As temperatures begin to warm up throughout the state, California Department of Public Health (CDPH) Director Dr. Karen Smith advises California residents to prepare themselves for what could be a very hot, dry summer.
CDFW Names Warden Chris Stoots as Wildlife Officer of the Year
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Sacramento, California - The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) has announced the selection of Warden Chris Stoots as its 2015 Wildlife Officer of the Year. Stoots’ dedication to his job and the tenacity with which he relentlessly pursues poachers are widely respected by officers with many more years of experience and by his supervisors within the Law Enforcement Division, as well as within the community where he works.
Governor Brown Announces Appointments
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Sacramento, California - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments.
CDFA’s commitment to eradicate the Japanese Beetle
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Sacramento, California - The California Department of Food and Agriculture is currently working on a pair of Japanese Beetle eradication projects in Sacramento County, in the communities of Carmichael and Fair Oaks. The beetle has been called perhaps the most devastating pest of urban landscape plants and turf grasses in the eastern United States; that region is generally infested with the pest, while California is not. The Japanese Beetle poses a double-barreled threat - grubs remain underground, feeding on grasses, while adults roam above the surface, feeding on roughly 300 species of plants and trees, including fruit trees.
Governor Brown to Attend Metropolitan Water District Board Meeting, Participate in Drought Forum
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Los Angeles, California - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. will attend the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California Board Meeting tomorrow and will later join Austin Beutner, publisher and CEO of the Los Angeles Times and the San Diego Union-Tribune, for a conversation on the state’s drought as part of a new event series sponsored by the Times called “The California Conversation.”
UCLA Anderson Forecast: California can expect steady improvement in unemployment
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Los Angeles, California - UCLA Anderson Forecast’s second quarterly report in 2015 for the United States indicates that the nation’s economic growth, for the second year in a row, was slowed due to inclement weather experienced during the first quarter of the year. The U.S. is expected to return to a 3 percent GDP growth rate by the third quarter, and that pace should hold through the end of 2016.
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