California could be the first state to ban quartz countertops
A governor-appointed state board weighs whether to ban the use of engineered stone to protect workers from a deadly lung disease. By Semantha Raquel Norris, Capital…
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Editor’s note: Sutter Health’s big tax break
Sutter Health has a lot at stake in a groundbreaking antitrust lawsuit that appears headed to a showdown trial: Its market dominance in Northern California,…
Aftershock 2019 lineup announced
Slipknot, Tool, blink-182 headline the hard rock and heavy metal festival, expanded to three days For months, rumors swirled on which bands would play Aftershock,…
A California kid caught the plague. Wait, that's still a thing?!
A Los Angeles County child was hospitalized with an extremely rare case of the human plague after visiting two of California’s natural wonders last month….
UPDATE: Color Run poses limited fire hazard, retains some respiratory risk, says expert
When you don’t know the answer, experiment. California Air Resources Board engineer Earl Withycombe practiced that tenet on a mostly wind-free Thursday night, as…
Sacramento hospitals struggle to contain spread of infections, report says
By Brooke Purves Sacramento-area hospitals were ranked by Consumer Reports as some of the best—and worst—at preventing the spread of deadly hospital-acquired infections in a report…