Sacramento, California - Assemblymember Eduardo Garcia (D-Coachella) got five bills out of the Senate Appropriations Committee, the Business Professions and Economic Development Committee and the Senate Floor today

Sacramento, California - The latest segment in the Growing California video series, a partnership with California Grown, is “Friends of the Range,” a profile of a brother-sister ranching partnership and their extensive family history in Contra Costa and Alameda counties.

San Jose, California - Following the detection of an Asian citrus psyllid (ACP) within the City of San Jose, the existing quarantine has been expanded to include an additional portion of northwest Santa Clara County and a portion of southern Alameda County along its border with Santa Clara County.  The quarantine expansion in Santa Clara County adds 4 square miles to the northwest of the current quarantine and the new quarantine expansion into Alameda County measures approximately 9 square miles in the Fremont area.

Sacramento, California - California and the State of Victoria, Australia today signed an agreement that will help make both states safer through the sharing of expertise, technical knowledge, training and best practices in wildland fire and flood management.

Escondido, California - Animal care staff opened the gates to an in-exhibit care area this morning and a two-week-old male Ugandan giraffe slowly followed his mother, Chinde (pronounced Shin-dey), into the East Africa habitat at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park. The lanky calf hesitantly left the area where he has lived since he was born on June 22. With his comparatively short legs, the calf had to run to keep up with his mother’s long, slow strides as she led him to a watering hole, where the other giraffes in the exhibit came to sniff and lick the new member of the herd.

Sacramento, California - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced that he has signed the following bills.