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Given the sacrifices that will be required to deal with California’s budget crisis, commentator Ginger Rutland says cutting the number of state worker holidays ought to be easy.

Veterinary services, car repairs, golf fees…Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger wants to extend the sales tax to those services and others as a way to generate revenue for cash strapped California.

Funeral services were held Thursdasy for Sacramento County Sheriff’s Deputy Larry Canfield. The motorcycle officer was killed last week in a traffic accident while patrolling in Rancho Cordova.

A research firm reports Sacramento area home prices tumbled 35% in October from a year ago, as buyers snapped up steep discounts on foreclosed properties.

Sacramento Mayor-elect Kevin Johnson is planning a big inauguration party Tuesday night at the Memorial Auditorium. But Johnson will have to wait an extra week to take office.

State Controller John Chiang says a community college in Stockton misspent $11.5 million that voters had earmarked for campus upgrades.

The California Supreme Court has agreed to hear legal challenges to the state’s new same-sex marriage ban. Meanwhile, California lawmakers on Capitol Hill sound off about the volatile issue. Tanya Snyder reports.

Thousands of low-income California kids who need health insurance might have to wait because of the state budget crisis. On Wednesday, more than 50 advocates urged the board overseeing the program to not keep the doors open.

Memorial services will be held Thursday for a Sacramento County Sheriff’s deputy who was killed in the line of duty last week.

Sacramento’s affordable housing agency is holding an event Thursday aimed at helping people struggling with their mortgage payments to stay in their homes.

A task force of federal, state and local agencies has seized a record number of marijuana plants this year in California. And most of them were on public lands.

Sessions in both houses of the state legislature have been scheduled for this Sunday. But so far—there’s no new budget plan for lawmakers to vote on.

The wife of Texas oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens says she'll create a refuge for wild horses after federal officials announced they were considering euthanizing some of the animals.

California Senator Dianne Feinstein says the US needs to put the brakes on a Pentagon plan to build new nuclear weapons.

Grass Valley residents are divided over plans to revive an old gold mine. Some say it would hurt the environment – while others say it would help boost the local economy.