California’s state parks and outdoor escapes offer new ... especially families and fourth-graders, to enjoy park access for free. New parks such as Dos Rios in the Central Valley reflect efforts ...

Under a shaded refuge adjacent to a still pond in the Central Valley, dozens of California State Parks officials and nonprofit leaders assembled Wednesday to laud the first state park to open in a ...

The best part of a California spring is when flowers bloom, sweeping up through the south into the central coast plains. Depending on how the rains and winds were during the preceding winter, the ...

But there is trouble in this paradise. The park sits on a road. In California, people really love their parks. They also really love their cars. Here, these devotions have collided, setting off a ...

69 YEAR OLD MISSING HIKER.. MONICA SEVERSON.. FOUND ALIVE AFTER GETTING LOST AND SPENDING THE NIGHT IN GARRAPATA STATE PARK SOUTH OF CARMEL.. JUST HAVING THIS NEWS NOW. NOW WE'RE THINKING ABOUT ...

Monterey County deputies and California State Parks officials got a report of an overdue hiker in Garrapata State Park about 8 p.m. Wednesday, May 28, the sheriff’s office said in a Facebook post.

The Justice Department opened an inquiry Wednesday into whether a California state law allowing transgender student athletes to compete in women’s sports violates federal Title IX rules against ...

CRAIG KOHLRUSS ckohlruss@fresnobee.com We both grew up in the Central Valley, currently raise our respective families in Fresno and serve as members of the California State University (CSU ...

California, Los Angeles, Long Beach and more than 500 other cities, counties and states throughout the country were included. The state contends that federal court rulings have rejected the ...