McClellan Air Force Base News

Rudy Gonzalez stared down the first fairway at Lyons Golf Course on Wednesday afternoon and took a sharp practice swing before teeing off on the final round of what he calls his "home course." The historic Lyons Golf Course, a nine-hole layout installed on Rough and Ready Island when the island was a Navy base, will close today after nearly 41 ...

Two decades ago, at the twilight of the Cold War, the Sacramento region was grappling with the conversion of one Air Force base and the possible closure of another.

Juanita Cox with her daughter Donna Scovell. After staring down a lifetime of challenges, Juanita Cox, 89, was confronted with one of the toughest trials in her life when someone took $200 from her purse in November.

In what used to be a vacant lot across from the a oebase gyma on the former McClellan Air Force Base, Calif., is now a model community for helping the homeless.

McClellan Park has become the home for a growing, diverse group of businesses eight years after Sacramento County and private partners took over the 3,000-acre site.

Available warehouse and office facilities at McClellan Park the former McClellan Air Force base, which closed eight years.

Dirty Corporate Feet Conspiracy III Eddie, finds work at a Hotel called "LionsGate." While working at LionsGate for nearly two years.

Coast Guard personnel honor their comrades at McClellan Air Force Base for the memorial service for the nine military fliers who lost their lives in a crash off the San Diego Coast last week.The eight men and one woman went down Oct.

Today, family members and colleagues of nine military fliers who lost their lives in a crash off the San Diego coast last week will gather at McClellan Air Force Base to bid them goodbye.

Rumbling off the airstrip at the old McClellan Air Force Base, they head out on missions as far away as the Galapagos Islands.

A TV station reporter prepares to send a live report from in front of the gate at McClellan Air Force base in North Highlands Friday morning.

The seabirds flew 700 miles from Oregon to Fairfield, but not under their own power: Stricken by toxic algae, they were loaded onto a Coast Guard plane for emergency care at a bird rescue center.

A funeral procession for a fallen solider will make its way through Auburn Thursday afternoon.

Sep. 25--Following the death of a U.S. census worker in Kentucky -- and with door-to-door canvassing for the 2010 census looming -- a regional Census Bureau spokesman on Thursday sought to reassure the public that the bureau is training and monitoring its employees well.

Last Edit: 1 hour 11 min ago Jose Garcia, Ogden Air Logistics Center Engineering Directorate Defense Logistics Agency 339 Engineering Support manager, accepted the collateral duty of Hispanic Employment Program Manager less than a year ago and, to this day, he continues to find ways to reach out to the Hispanic populations both on and off base.

Stu Lichter finds treasure in the Midwest's gutted manufacturing corridor. In 1950 canal place, the 3-million-square-foot epicenter of BF Goodrich in Akron, Ohio employed 23,000 and had its own police and fire departments.

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The biggest fire-fighting jet on the planet started duty Monday combating the deadly fires around Los Angeles.

By Dennis Taylor, McClatchy News Service Firefighters battling the Gloria Fire, near Pinnacles National Monument outside Soledad, had it more than 60 percent contained by late Saturday, fire officials said.

The Corral Fire has burned an estimated 15,000 acres along the border of Alameda and San Joaquin counties and remained 20 percent contained this evening, an Alameda County Fire Department spokeswoman said Friday.