A Japanese broadcasting group is filming a documentary about tsunami debris in Kodiak, Alaska this week. NHK, Japan’s national public...
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California environmental groups have filed a lawsuit protesting a decision to combat San Joaquin Valley smog by increasing automobile registration...
The Leavitt Group’s Bay Area office named Trisha Milazzo as a consultant in the employee benefits division. Milazzo has more...
Three police officers in the Portland, Ore. suburb of Beaverton went the extra mile for a hamster found riding in...
The eastern New Mexico town of Portales is preparing for its 39th annual peanut festival this weekend. But the festivities...
A building permit consultant in California has been hired as San Francisco’s first earthquake safety czar. The San Francisco Chronicle...
Edgewood Partners Insurance Center named Joe Dunn vice president of workers’ compensation claims in its Fresno, Calif. office. Dunn will...
The city of Fresno, Calif., will be the first municipality in the United States to see whether “social impact bonds,”...

A day before more than 9 million people in California took part in a massive nationwide earthquake drill on Thursday,...
A judge has dismissed a widow’s lawsuit against the federal government over her husband’s death in a mountain goat attack...