Sacramento, California - The California Energy Commission Tuesday approved $4.3 million in grants for projects to increase the efficiency of natural gas technology used in industrial, agriculture and water processes.

Fresno, California - The Bureau of Reclamation has released the Final Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact for the proposed Five-Year Friant-Kern Canal Groundwater Pump-In Program.

Los Angeles, California - Today, Attorney General Kamala D. Harris joined Washington Attorney General Robert W. Ferguson in filing a friend-of-the-court brief with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in the case J.E.F.M v, Lynch, to ensure that every unaccompanied minor placed in immigration proceedings is guaranteed a right to counsel.

Sacramento, California - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments:

Sacramento, California - California Department of Public Health (CDPH) Director and State Public Health Officer Dr. Karen Smith today announced that a water quality study being performed in Humboldt County may result in portions of Humboldt Bay turning red. 

Sacramento, California - The 2015 grape crush totaled 3,867,710 tons, down 7 percent from the 2014 crush of 4,144,534 tons. Red wine varieties accounted for the largest share of all grapes crushed, at 2,040,781 tons, down 5 percent from 2014. The 2015 white wine variety crush totaled 1,663,790 tons, down 5 percent from 2014. Tons crushed of raisin type varieties totaled 92,432, down 41 percent from 2014, and tons crushed of table type varieties totaled 70,708, down 25 percent from 2014.