Escondido, California - Butterfly Jungle at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park features thousands of beautiful butterflies as they flit, float and flutter in an aviary that also includes birds, lush greenery and flowers.

Sacramento, California - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today issued a proclamation declaring January 15, 2015, as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the State of California. This day is officially observed this year on Monday, January 19.

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

Sacramento, California - The California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) has awarded $215,670 for five projects that will promote and administer agricultural education and leadership programs for students, teachers and youth under the 2014 California Special Interest License Plate (CalAgPlate) grant program.

Sacramento, California - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has announced that 115 high-impact projects across all 50 states and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico will receive more than $370 million in federal funding as part of the new USDA Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP). 

San Francisco, California - CIRM, California’s stem cell agency, is holding a free, one-hour webinar to let people know about the big changes being introduced under CIRM 2.0 and how it can help speed up research and make it easier and faster for researchers to get the funding they need when they need it.