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Advocates for the restoration of Central Valley salmon and the Delta rallied with colorful signs and banners at an intersection surrounded by fields on the west side of the San Joaquin Valley, urging President Obama to not support Governor Jerry Brown's peripheral tunnel plan.

Sandra Fluke, who in testimony before Congress called for birth control to be included in the health care bill (and slut-shamed by Rush Limbaugh for it), decided to run for an open California state senate seat, rather than attempt to get the Democratic nod for the soon-to-be-vacated Congressional seat of outgoing Henry Waxman.

Tom Perkins, founder of one of Silicon Valley's top venture capital firms, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, would like you to know that if you talk about income inequality, you're attacking the poor, poor 1% — just like the Nazis attacked the Jewish people.

Consumers who want to know if their personal care products contain carcinogens or toxins have a new tool available to them. The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) unveiled on Friday a searchable database that allows consumers to look up a particular ingredient, product or brand to see if it is potentially harmful.

A new California law that gives transgender students a fair chance in public schools by allowing them to use gender segregated facilities and participate in activities for their chosen gender has turned into a lightening rod for transgender rights. Often the forgotten part of this country's growing LGBT acceptance, transgender individuals face some of the harshest discrimination. Conservatives are using the new California law as a wedge issue, but many in the state are fighting to keep the protections on the books.

As director of the UCSF’s Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health, part of the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health, Tracy Weitz has co-authored seven studies in major journals in the past year alone, on topics ranging from how low-income women pay for abortions to why some women who want an abortion delay until it is too late. Her invaluable research has led to law changes in California, as well as inadvertently and wrongfully in Texas, but the limitations of private funded research has Weitz looking at other avenues to help women.

One or possibly two shooters were able to knock out a transformer and cause damage to the power grid at California power station the day after the Boston Marathon attack. Overshadowed by the Boston tragedy, this underreported story deserves to be heard – our infrastructure is old and fragile, and too easily damaged.

Standing atop a giant wedding cake float, Aubrey Loots and Danny Leclair exchanged vows New Year's Day in the first same-sex marriage during the Tournament of Roses Parade.

Throngs of spectators cheered as the men, dressed in dark suits, faced each other and held hands before the Rev. Alfreda Lanoix, who officiated the ceremony aboard the AIDS Healthcare Foundation float.

Days earlier, a San Diego woman launched a Facebook page urging people

Schneider Logistics, a contractor which runs a Walmart distribution center in Mira Loma, California, agreed to pay $4.7 million to as many as 568 workers as part of a settlement stemming from a case in the federal court system. The company was accused of systematically cheating workers out of overtime hours as well as illegally deducting wages from their paychecks.

In the chaotic aftermath of Asiana Airlines Flight 214's crash at San Francisco International Airport, one victim who was ejected from the airline survived the initial impact only to be run over by not one, but two, emergency vehicles acting on the scene.

Prisoners in California and elsewhere are being used to fight the growing number of wildfires in the west due to global warming. The positive: they learn a trade they can use after release. The negative: the prisoners are paid nearly nothing, and face the very real possibility of injury or death.

Embattled state Sen. Ron Calderon says federal authorities wanted him to wear a wire and record conversations with the Senate leader and another lawmaker, and after he refused they tried to ruin his reputation by raiding his offices and leaking an FBI affidavit alleging he took money in return for promoting bills.