When you think of opera, you probably think lavish productions, performed in major metropolitan areas. But in the city of Visalia, in rural Tulare County, a small opera company is taking on a big task ...

Yesterday the Census released data from 1940 after 72 years of confidentiality expired. California Watch has drilled down to find out how our home state fared back then. At the time the entire ...

This week in 1940, California Gov. Culbert Olson and the 1941 Rose Queen presided over the official dedication of the Arroyo Seco Parkway, which in 1954 became the Pasadena Freeway. When the late John ...

Friends of Balboa Park announced Wednesday it has replaced the unsightly 1940s-era bullhorn loudspeakers that amplify the chimes atop the historic California Tower. “Friends of Balboa Park is ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday posthumously pardoned an abortion activist from the 1930s and 1940s, acting days before Californians finish voting on whether to enshrine ...

Lyle Lundeen, an 89-year-old retired Navy pilot who lives in Bloomington, found an old palm-sized notebook that brought back some memories -- and some signs of the wrench inflation has thrown into ...

When wildfires rage during California’s hot, dry summers, prison inmates join professional firefighters to work the front lines, using chain saws and hand tools to clear brush, cut firebreaks and set ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Gov. Gavin Newsom ...