Sacramento, California - The United States has asked a federal court in Sacramento, California, to bar a Ripon, California, man from preparing tax returns for others, the Justice Department announced today.

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

Sacramento, California - The UN has declared 2015 as the International Year of Soils. What is soil? Well, it’s simple - minerals derived from weathered rocks; and organic materials derived from living and dead organisms. Soil is also complex - it’s the “skin of the earth” that supports all forms of terrestrial life, including our homes, our food and our oxygen-giving plants.

Sacramento, California - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today issued the following statement regarding the death of California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE) Pilot Jerold “Jerry” Bonner:

San Diego, California - A new simple tool developed by nanoengineers at the University of California, San Diego, is opening the door to an era when anyone will be able to build sensors, anywhere, including physicians in the clinic, patients in their home and soldiers in the field. The team from the University of California, San Diego, developed high-tech bio-inks that react with several chemicals, including glucose. They filled off-the-shelf ballpoint pens with the inks and were able to draw sensors to measure glucose directly on the skin and sensors to measure pollution on leaves.

Los Angeles, California - Former United States Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords of Southern Arizona and retired U.S. Navy Captain and NASA astronaut Mark Kelly will give the the 14th Annual Carmen and Louis Warschaw Distinguished Lecture.