Sacramento, California - California Governor's Office of Emergency Services Director Mark Ghilarducci today secured a Fire Management Assistance Grant (FMAG) from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to help ensure the availability of vital resources to suppress the Rocky Fire burning in Lake County. The FMAG also enables local, state and tribal agencies to recover eligible costs.

San Francisco, California - Attorney General Kamala D. Harris today announced that Capital Sweepstakes Systems, Inc. (Capital Sweepstakes), a major sweepstakes gambling software provider, will pay $700,000 in civil penalties and costs and admit that it violated state gambling laws, in a case brought by the joint state and local Sweepstakes Gambling Task Force.

Washington, DC - California-based medical device manufacturer NuVasive Inc. has agreed to pay the United States $13.5 million to resolve allegations that the company caused health care providers to submit false claims to Medicare and other federal health care programs for spine surgeries by marketing the company’s CoRoent System for surgical uses that were not approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Justice Department announced today. 

Washington, DC - A new NASA study has concluded California accumulated a debt of about 20 inches of precipitation between 2012 and 2015 - the average amount expected to fall in the state in a single year. The deficit was driven primarily by a lack of air currents moving inland from the Pacific Ocean that are rich in water vapor.

Los Angeles, California - A Porter Ranch man who allegedly posed as a federal immigration agent and promised detained aliens’ families he could secure their relatives’ release in return for sizeable payments will be arraigned Thursday on state theft and burglary charges stemming from a joint probe by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) and the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office Bureau of Investigation.

Sacramento, California - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today issued the following statement regarding the death of U.S. Forest Service Firefighter David “Dave” Ruhl: