By JIM MILLER, The Press-Enterprise

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California has a new road map to guide efforts to reduce the threat of catastrophic wildfire in the coming years.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A lawmaker's bill to make California the first state to legalize online gambling has bogged down in the face of strong opposition from American Indian tribes with casinos and other critics.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California Republicans are far more likely to identify with Tea Party protesters and the claim by some that President Barack Obama was not born in the U.S. and therefore is ineligible to be president, according to a new poll.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Despite a multibillion-dollar state budget shortfall, California lawmakers need to get moving on the costly job of fixing the Salton Sea, the Legislature's nonpartisan fiscal analyst said in a report this week.