Merced, California - A Merced dairy family is playing a key role in protecting imperiled Tricolored Blackbirds, a California-native species federally listed as a Bird of Conservation Concern and as a State of California Threatened Species.

Sacramento, California - The California Department of Food and Agriculture is celebrating its 100thanniversary as a state agency in 2019. Throughout the year this blog will feature a number of items to commemorate this milestone. Today we continue with the Centennial Reflections video series, featuring CDFA employees remembering their histories, and the agency’s.

Sacramento, California - Governor Gavin Newsom Monday announced that FEMA has approved California’s request for Presidential Major Disaster declarations submitted in April to bolster ongoing state and local recovery efforts following severe winter storms that caused widespread flooding, mudslides and damage to critical infrastructure across California.

San Francisco, California - Sushovan Hussain, the former Chief Financial Officer of Autonomy Corporation plc, was sentenced to sixty (60) months in prison following his convictions after trial for one count of conspiracy, fourteen counts of wire fraud and one count of securities fraud by a federal jury, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett.  The sentence was imposed by the Honorable Charles R. Breyer, U.S. District Judge.

Santa Ana, California - A former engineer at Skyworks Solutions, Inc. surrendered to law enforcement Friday on a federal criminal complaint alleging he obtained his employer’s non-public financial results without authorization and then illegally used the confidential information to purchase large amounts of Skyworks securities prior to the information being made public.

Sacramento, California - A 26-episode weekly video series has debuted on YouTube to help train the next generation of vegetable crop workers and increase their use of effective stewardship practices in vegetable production.