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The Contra Costa Sheriff's Office is finalizing a new immigrant detention policy that would decrease the number of deportations stemming out of County Jail.

It's a stunning admission: the Internal Revenue Service targeted conservative groups for special scrutiny in the run-up to the 2012 election.

Work continues to try to add 264 acres to 1,039-acre Lynch Canyon open space, using a $2.4 million Congressional earmark from 2005.

The White House threatened on Wednesday to veto a Republican bill to switch federal student loan interest rates to a market-based system, arguing the plan would create more uncertainty for students and families.

Restore the Delta responded to Meral's latest claim by asking, "So why then should rate payers from Southern California and tax payers throughout the state be asked to pick up the tab for a $50 billion project that will not make more water for Southern California or save the Delta? Photo of Jerry Meral at BDCP meeting by Dan Bacher.

Twenty members of Congress have sent a letter to the Boy Scouts of America, urging it to drop its ban on gay youth and adults.

Rep. Ed Markey hasn't yet won the Massachusetts special election for the open Senate seat, but some of his colleagues are already weighing in on his committee seats.

The days of fixed-rate student loans could be coming to a close, with House Republicans on Thursday advancing a proposal that would link rates to financial markets.

A bill to protect students' financial aid from being nickeled and dimed by bank fees has passed the State Assembly and now moves to the Senate.

It's a better deal at first, but student loan rates could steadily climb and cost students more over the long haul under the plan House Republicans are considering.

The 13th annual Contra Costa Small Business Award Luncheon honored 14 serial entrepreneurs as event host Contra Costa Council marked 2013 as a year when retro trades and high-tech industries came together.

May 13, 2013 - Lawmakers in the House and Senate last week issued statements and proposed bills to address the debts of student borrowers as the CFPB released its report on student loan affordability.

Over the past decade, the United States has spent upwards of $100 billion on K-12 classroom technology to no discernible effect.

Rep. George Miller re-introduced in the House The All Students Safe Act, which would set for the first time minimum safety standards at schools to curb teacher and staff abuse in how they apply seclusion and restraint to students when dealing with emotional or behavioral outbursts.

For months we've been writing about state efforts to label genetically modified organisms .

Lawmakers re-introduced legislation Thursday aimed at protecting children with autism and other disabilities from being injured in American schools, saying they were hopeful that greater awareness of the dangers of improper use of restraints will give the bill a better chance of passage.

Well, there's at least one Democrat who's still saying good things about ObamaCare: House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi .

House Republicans are willing to give President Barack Obama a rare win, the chairman of the Education and Workforce Committee said Thursday in outlining a deal that would let college students avoid a costly hike on their student loans.

The Republican-led House on Wednesday approved a measure that would give private sector workers the option of trading overtime pay for extra time off weeks or months later.

On the same day the Louisiana Supreme Court struck down the state's funding method for its private school voucher program, State Superintendent John White Tuesday was telling Congress the benefits of giving parents a choice of schools -- public or private.