Washington, DC - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today joined Interior Deputy Secretary Mike Connor and California Secretary for Natural Resources John Laird to announce a new partnership focused on conserving and restoring the Sierra-Cascade California Headwaters, as part of President Obama’s Resilient Lands and Waters initiative.

Sacramento, California - After announcing a budget agreement with Senate President pro Tempore Kevin de León and Assembly Speaker Toni Atkins last week, Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today signed a balanced, on-time budget that saves billions of dollars and pays down debt, while directing more resources to schools and low-income Californians. The budget and related acts signed by the Governor today are below:

Sacramento, California - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. will join United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at events on Friday in San Francisco to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the signing of the United Nations Charter.

Sacramento, California - Assemblymember Eduardo Garcia (D-Coachella) will be holding his first select committee hearing this Tuesday in the State Capitol. The Assembly Select Committee on Renewable Energy Development and Restoration of the Salton Sea will be looking into the role of the Salton Sea’s geothermal resource in the context of the state’s renewable energy and climate goals.

Sacramento, California - Parts of the Midwest are dealing with a serious and ongoing outbreak of avian influenza, so California is taking extra steps to protect birds here. Poultry farmers, veterinarians and the larger commercial community in general are aware of the additional requirements, which focus on inspecting and testing farms and flocks in the outbreak regions before they can send poultry and products to California.

Los Angeles, California - You have to go back more than 70 years to get a view of a very different Southern California. Long before urban and suburban post-war development blossomed around Los Angeles, the region was a major agricultural producer. Citrus was the leading crop, and that heritage is all too apparent in the place names that remain today. An example of that is Orange County.