Davis, California - California’s role as the nation’s leading producer of agricultural products is well known. In 2012 California’s farms and ranches accounted for $42.6 billion in output. California produced 15% of the nation’s total value of crop production and 7.1 percent of the value of livestock and livestock products.

Seoul, South Korea - Heralded by the hippie anthem “San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair),” leaders from the World Federation of Science Journalists named the City by the Bay as the site for its 2017 international meeting, to be co-hosted by UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco.

Los Angeles, California - With the clock ticking for national governments to reach a deal to reduce harmful emissions ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris, Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. will welcome the United Nations’ top climate change official, Christiana Figueres, to Los Angeles tomorrow. They will join leading climate scientists to discuss the impacts of a changing climate and the need for swift, decisive action at every level.

Oxnard, California - An application for certification for the Puente Power Project (PPP) was adopted as data adequate by the California Energy Commission during its business meeting today, beginning the 12-month licensing review process for the proposed 262-megawatt (MW) natural gas-fired power plant in Oxnard.

Sacramento, California - Akbar Bhamani, 61, of Carmichael, was sentenced Thursday by United States District Judge Troy L. Nunley to eight years in prison for two counts of selling unregistered securities, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. Bhamani was sentenced to 49 months on count one and 48 months on count two, to be served consecutively.

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