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Help wanted at the home improvement company's stores as the busy spring sales season approaches.
A Caltrans road work sign was vandalized Wednesday night in Roseville.
Help wanted at the home improvement company's stores as the busy spring sales season approaches.
The utility will replace 11,000 feet of plastic natural gas pipeline in Roseville.
The school competed against 20 other schools.
The Sacramento County Sheriff's Department will hold a virtual ride-along, called a #tweetalong, from 3 p.m. to midnight Saturday.
The school's team advances to the state finals next month.
Kenneth Mitchell has been missing since Wednesday afternoon.
The parents of Genelle Conway-Allen expressed their gratitude for the community's support.
The Benicia City Council will send a resolution in support of the Congressional Gun Violence Prevention Task Force.
The U.S. Postal Service announced it will end Saturday mail delivery by Aug. 1. Speak out: How will this affect you?
A formal discussion on the proposed change, which would extend the terms of every council member by one year, is scheduled for Feb. 19.
Jobs available in the Roseville area.
The Sacramento City Unified School District Board of Education is proposing to close James W. Marshall Elementary School.
The teen was found in Fairfield Friday.
The city's electric utility has had a 21 percent turnover rate since July of 2010, a city staff report says.
The Benicia City Council and school board may send letters supporting stricter gun control laws.
BP is accused of environmental violations at more than 780 gas stations in California. However, the former ARCO station in Seal Beach is not named in the suit despite decades of toxic contamination leaking into the community.
BP is accused of environmental violations at more than 780 gas stations in California including one on Brookhurst.