His eighteen sixty-six painting "Yosemite Valley" gave many people on the East Coast their first introduction to California's beautiful mountain area.

VOA: special.2009.05.01

California's finances have become so bad, this month the state began to buy goods and services with promises to pay later.

VOA: special.2009.07.31

The recession has hit especially hard in California, home of the world's eighth largest economy and one out of eight Americans.

VOA: special.2009.07.31

Jackson bought a huge property in California which he called "Neverland" after the children's story of Peter Pan.

VOA: special.2009.07.05

The survey is from the Pew Research Center's Internet and American Life Project and the California HealthCare Foundation.

VOA: special.2011.03.07

For example, organizers of the Street Scene festival in San Diego,California, cancelled this year's event because of poor ticket sales last year.

VOA: special.2010.08.02

She also taught at the University of California at Santa Cruz, Saint Mary's College of Maryland and Duke University in North Carolina.

VOA: special.2010.04.18

But California officials recently registered objects left by the first men to land on the moons surface.

VOA: special.2010.03.02

Her daughter's husband, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, said that she was the light of the family.

VOA: special.2009.08.23

It is along or near this fault line that most of California's earthquakes take place, as the two tectonic plates move in different directions.

VOA: special.2011.01.04

On New Year's morning, millions of television viewers watch the Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena,California.

VOA: special.2009.12.28

Polk's representative said the United States wanted to buy California and some other Mexican territory.

VOA: special.2009.02.26

Governor Schwarzenegger said California's finances were the main reason the Legislature changed the law.

VOA: special.2010.10.11

Three researchers at the University of California at San Francisco presented information about a drug company's marketing campaign that included placing research articles in medical journals.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

Today's word,pan, takes us back to the days of the gold rush in California.

VOA: special.2010.04.25

The X-15 flies high over the sandy wasteland of California's Mojave Desert.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

In Southern California, the weather on New Year's Day might be cold.

VOA: special.2009.12.28

They work for the American space agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California.

VOA: special.2009.08.25

They tried their luck in Californias Gold Rush.

VOA: special.2010.03.03

California's climate is also appealing.

VOA: special.2010.05.27