Sacramento, California - State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson announced today that California was fifth in the nation in the percentage of 2015 graduates who earned a score of three or higher on an end-of-course Advanced Placement (AP) exam taken during their high school careers.

Washington, DC - Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues Catherine Russell will travel to San Francisco on February 26 to launch the Women’s Entrepreneurship Fund and attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Business Advisory Council (ABAC) Women’s Forum.

Sacramento, California - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments:

Sacramento, California - An annual experiment to “plant” salmon in Yolo County rice fields aims to better explain how floodplains support strong salmon populations. Dubbed the “Nigiri Project” for its sushi-like marriage of fish and rice, the research is a collaborative project among the UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences, the California Department of Water Resources and nonprofit organization California Trout.

Sacramento, California - The California State Board of Food and Agriculture will be hearing from state officials and agricultural organizations on proposed programs regulating agricultural discharges on irrigated lands. The meeting will be held on Tuesday, March 1, 2016 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the California Department of Food and Agriculture, 1220 N Street – Main Auditorium, Sacramento.

Simi Valley, California - Seabees from around Naval Base Ventura County gathered at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library for the 74th Annual Seabee Ball, Saturday.