Placer County Statewide Articles

Detectives began looking into Swan Spa in Thousand Oaks earlier this year after suspecting employees were selling sex services to customers.

An atmospheric river storm this week dumped record rain in Northern California before weakening as it moved down the coast into Southern California.

Former Golden State Warriors basketball executive Bob Myers was appointed to the University of California Board of Regents, UC officials announced.Gov. Gavin Newsom made the appointment of Myers as a regent, which serves a 12-year term on the board that …

PRISON TO EMPLOYMENT CONNECTION, a nonprofit self-help program at San Quentin Rehabilitation Center, this year marked its 10th year providing job readiness skills to the incarcerated.In the spring, 29 inmates graduated from the 15-week program, where they learned to write …

This week’s atmospheric river storm smashed records.

This is the season for California lawmakers to travel across the globe, some to lush beachside resorts with schmoozing lobbyists, at no cost of their own.

A bill to rename a San Francisco post office after the late former mayor and U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein has unanimously passed the U.S. Senate.The bill was co-authored by California’s two current senators, Alex Padilla and Laphonza Butler, both Democrats.The …

Chuck Woolery, the original host of "Wheel of Fortune" who was inducted into the American TV Game Show Hall of Fame and later became a frequent presence on right-wing media, died Saturday at his home in Texas.

The Salinas Police Department was awarded a $98,000 state grant for traffic safety enforcement. The grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety will support education, DUI checkpoints, officer certification programs and various safety enforcement operations to try to reduce …

The 12-year-old girl was waiting for a bus to take her to school. The suspect is 'well known' to Pasadena police.

Justice Lopez was approached by a male suspect who shot her before fleeing on foot, detectives said. The motive is not clear.

The adoptive parents of a 10-year-old Moreno Valley boy were arrested after he was transported to a hospital and later died.

CALIFORNIA HAS A notoriously slow ballot counting process — one that Kim Alexander describes as “a pig in the python.”“This giant wad of ballots that all arrive at once, that all have to move through the process, and you can’t …

The driver fled the scene after the killing, which took place in a parking lot of BMO Stadium in Exposition Park, investigators said.

No one at the packed San Jose City Council meeting wanted the West Valley hospital to close or miss its seismic retrofit deadline, but numerous residents wanted city officials to hear their concerns about the company that owns the hospital.The …

The suit, filed in federal court in Los Angeles, also claims that when the girls protested what they perceived as the unfairness of the situation by wearing T-shirts that said "Save Girls' Sports," school officials compared it to wearing a …

The cyber security training program led by Homeland Security Investigations agents is part of a push to fight the sexual exploitation of children.

A new grant program launched this week by the East Bay Community Foundation aims to help small businesses in Oakland that are facing economic or other challenges. The Oakland Small Business Resilience Fund is now accepting applications for grants of …

A report critical of safety conditions at San Francisco Zoo that was released in October was presented Thursday to the advisory committee that oversees the zoo, the Joint Zoo Committee.But no mention was made of the report during a general …

An atmospheric river storm that dumped record rain in Northern California is bringing some precipitation to Southern California.