The following headlines are from stories reported in various news sources around the state. Click on any link to read the article.
January 1: Santa Cruz Patch.com: Start Your Resolution Today: Take a Hike ...
Wilder Ranch State Park-- First Day Hike in the Backcountry Tuesday, January 1 from ... Enter the park from Hwy 9 just south of downtown Felton, CA. Heavy rain ...
January 1: Stockton Record: Arson fire guts Columbia venue ...
"This has hit community members pretty hard," said Greg Martin, a superintendent with California State Parks. "Folks who've spent their whole ...
January 2: Los Angeles Times: Ex-Marine general takes helm of state parks agency ...
Then it turned out that parks officials had concealed tens of millions of ... "It's going to be difficult to get people in the state of California to rally ...
January 2: San Jose Mercury News: Retiring Mt. Diablo State Park director blazed unusual trail ...
"Working in a state park means you always have a backlog of maintenance ... Residence: Lived on Mount Diablo; moved to Southern California ...
January 2: Malibu Times: Lagoon project permit extended, locals still in doubt ...
In a move that raised many local eyebrows, the California Coastal Commission extended a permit on State Parks' controversial Malibu Lagoon ...
January 2: MyMotherLode.com:Impact Of Columbia Restaurant Fire ...
The restaurant is located at 22738 Main Street in Columbia State Historic Park. Over the past couple of years, the restaurant was known as ...
January 3: Half Moon Bay Review: Couple stranded in flooded street ...
... Fire Protection District, and the California State Parks Department. A State Parks ranger walked into the water, pulling a small boat by hand to ...
January 4: OCRegister: Trestles: Historic place? Historic treasure? ...
8 meeting of the State Historical Resources Commission in Sacramento. ... San Onofre gaining fame as the Waikiki Beach of California in the 1930s, ... Navy would lease a stretch of Camp Pendleton shoreline as a state park.
January 4: Los Angeles Times: State parks officials deliberately hid millions, report says ...
SACRAMENTO — Fear of embarrassment and budget cuts led high officials at the California parks department to conceal millions of dollars, according a new investigation by the state attorney general's office. The money remained hidden for years until it was ...
January 4: Washington Post: Report: California state parks officials at highest levels kept $20M hidden from ...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Officials at the highest levels of the California Department of Parks and Recreation helped keep millions of dollars in money intended for state parks secret for more than a decade, the California attorney general's office said in a report ...
Januay 4: San Francisco Chronicle: State parks officials hid some money ...
California Department of Parks and Recreation executives made "conscious and deliberate" decisions to hide $20 million in an agency account because they feared that revealing the funds to state finance officials would cause embarrassment and further ...
January 4: Los Angeles Times: Hidden parks money was exposed after years of silence ...
When Aaron Robertson took an administrative job at the California parks department in January 2012, he found a culture of secrecy and fear. “There was a great deal of distrust," he said. "People felt somewhat fearful of coming forward with information." ...
January 4: New York Times: California: Report Documents Hidden Parks Money ...
Officials at the highest levels of the California Department of Parks and Recreation helped keep millions of dollars in agency money secret for more than a decade, a report by the state attorney general's office said Friday. The report said employees feared that ...
January 4: U-T San Diego: Parks deception stemmed from budget reform ...
Millions of taxpayer dollars hidden by state parks officials for a decade first piled up unintentionally after a performance-based budgeting program produced accounting errors in the parks department's books, an Attorney General's investigation released Friday ...
January 5: Sacramento Bee: California parks officials knowingly kept $20 million hidden, probe ...
Yet for reasons that baffle park advocates across California, state parks officials continued to keep the "rainy day" money a closely held secret.
January 5: Times-Standard: New report: Hidden state parks money started as accounting error in mid-1990s ...
The decision by California's state parks officials to conceal millions of dollars in public funds -- even as they were asking the public to donate money to keep parks open --began with accounting errors in the mid-1990s, according to a new investigative report ...
January 5: Monterey County Herald: State parks chief vows no closures in Monterey Peninsula appearance ...
The retired Marine general heading the tarnished state parks department made two promises Saturday in Pacific Grove before about 200 ...
January 22: The Union of Grass Valley: The California Parks Department had a difficult 2012 ...
The California Parks Department had a difficult 2012. After unveiling its wildly unpopular plan to close 70 state parks, including two in Nevada County, the parks department saw Director Ruth Coleman resign amid allegations the department willfully hid $54 million for the state finance department for more than a decade.
January 23: OCRegister: O.C. Lifeguards Star in Weather Channel Show ...
It is the second season for the show, but the first year the California State Parks signed on to be part of the show. "The TV show does an ...
January 24: Ventura County Star: Friends of Channel Coast State Parks Received ...
Friends of Channel Coast State Parks (FCCSP) was awarded two grants in 2012 by the California State Parks Foundation (CSPF). The first, for ...
January 24 :Merced Sun-Star: Fifth arrest in museum robbery ...
A California State Park peace officer vehicle parked outside of the ...
January 24: MalibuPatch:VIDEO: Malibu Volunteers Assemble Care Packages for Overseas ...
Craig Sap, superintendent for California State Parks Angeles District, said he came out to help his "brothers in arms." "I got a very complex job ...
January 28: Modesto Bee: Excuses abound on California park funds ...
The status of the California state parks "hidden funds" scandal is a classic case of pass the buck. Attorney General Kamala Harris' office ...
January 28: Fresno Bee: Half dozen stranded hikers rescued in mountains ...
Hikers have been rescued safely in Southern California mountain areas. ... early Monday after they got stranded in Malibu Creek State Park.
January 28: NBC Bay Area: Divers Rescued Off Carmel Coast Sunday ...
Two of the divers were taken to shore in an inflatable boat, another was other towed ashore by California State Parks Rangers. Luckily, none of ...
January 25: Tahoe Daily Tribune: State Parks revises golf course plan ...
Only five holes of Lake Tahoe Golf Course would move across the Upper Truckee River under a new proposal for a California State Parks ...
January 29: Lake County Record-Bee: On the Spectrum: State Parks annual pass available ...
The opportunity to purchase an annual pass to California's State Parks is doubly-good news, arriving as it does upon the heels of efforts by ...
January 28: KCET; Working With Nature, a Sneak Peek at Malibu Lagoon ...
The Malibu Lagoon is a coastal wetland, an environment that once covered 95 percent of Southern California. The 31-acre bay sits at the end ...
