Sacramento, California - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced that he has signed the following bills.

Escondido, California - Four cheetah cubs at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park turned one year old today and received specially made birthday cakes for breakfast, in celebration. Members of the Safari Park’s nutritional services team made the four individual ice cakes and placed them in the exhibit the cubs share with their mother, Addison. The cakes were made with the cheetahs’ favorite food items: blood, chicken broth, ground meat, and chunked meat, drizzled with more blood for good measure.

Sacramento, California - The California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) has selected five projects for approximately $11.1 million in grants to implement digester technology on California dairy operations that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) from dairy manure.

Berkeley, California - Coho salmon and steelhead trout breed in the streams of Central California that summer turns into trickles and pools. Two- to four-inch juveniles, hatched in early spring, remain for a year or two before heading out to sea. By the end of summer, their survival is challenged by low water levels and rising water temperatures.

Stanford, California - If California voters legalize marijuana for recreational use, the state would be wise to fully consider its options on how best to implement such a law, according to new research by Stanford law students.

Camp Pendleton, California - Capt. Lisa Mulligan relieved Capt. Mark Kobelja as Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton commanding officer during a change of command ceremony Friday.