It has been reported that seven Sacramento-area inhabitants, alleged in two covered marijuana-growing acts have been arrested by authorities.

According to the Drug Enforcement Administration, agents confiscated about over 4,300 plants, hard cash and one vehicle at the time of cleaning, which took about two days.

McClatchy Co., the country's leading newspaper publisher which has 30 dailies under its wing, including the Miami Herald and Kansas City Star, has shared that it is expecting advertising revenues to keep growing through the end of the year, a trend which was recorded by the group in the third-quarter.

Three cases of cantaloupe shipment have been recalled because salmonella contamination reached Salinas, an official from a local store said.

According to the California Department of Public Health, the Sacramento-based Raley's grocery chain ordered the recall of 1,120 cartons of Del Monte cantaloupe last week after routine testing detected salmonella.

Medical device maker Medtronic Inc said that it has initiated a feasibility study for a treatment for erectile dysfunction that uses a specifically created drug-eluting stent.

The study is called Zen and is expected to enroll 50 subjects at up to 10 U. S. medical centers over the next year.

Sacramento International secured 10th position among the top airports nationally for on-time arrivals.

At Sacramento International, 83 per cent of flights landed within 15 minutes of the scheduled time over the last 12-month period.

Sacramento - He rode in like a genuine action hero in 2003, promising to rid California's largest state of cronyism and financial crisis.

George Rene Francis, whose life touched three centuries and listed as America's oldest man, died Saturday aged 112, of congestive heart failure at a nursing home in Sacramento.

Liver transplant would no longer be performed at UC Davis Medical Center in Greater Sacramento. The University officials clarified that as soon as an alternative arrangement is made for the existing patients, the center would close liver transplant program.

Burdened by debt and a steep slide in newspaper advertising, the McClatchy Company, which owns 30 papers, may sell one of its most-prized properties - The Miami Herald. With daily circulation of 210,000, the Herald is notably the most prestigious of McClatchy’s newspapers, having won 19 Pulitzer Prizes.

Fifty cats were euthanized to curb outbreak of a deadly feline virus at Sacramento animal shelter. The workers were forced to subject the cats to mercy killing when they noticed symptoms of panleukopenia, a viral infection commonly known as feline distemper.