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THE ubiquitous colours of prominent racehorse owners and breeders Steve and Karen Butcher could be flying high and proud at ...

Rancho Cordova’s City Council voted last month to move forward with a decade-old proposal to build a new $182 million Highway 50 interchange in the three-mile stretch between the Hazel Avenue and ...

Firefighters have contained the Border 18 brush fire near the U.S.-Mexico border, which burned 61 acres and was caused by target shooting.

California's governor gambled and won, raised his national profile and fortified his fund-raising base. But Newsom's biggest ...

California hides a secret paradise between its mountain folds that feels like driving through the pages of a National Geographic magazine come to life. The Feather River National Scenic Byway in ...