By Dale Kasler, The Sacramento Bee, Calif. Mar. 31--Janis Heaphy retired as publisher and president of The Bee on Monday. She will be replaced by Cheryl Dell, president and publisher of The News Tribune of Tacoma, Wash. Both papers are owned by The McClatchy Co. of Sacramento.

By Eve Hightower, The Modesto Bee, Calif. Feb. 28--A Web site called Modesto Famous shines the spotlight on people, art and topics that bloggers think deserve to be highlighted. Anyone can blog and everyone is subject to attention.

By The Sacramento Bee, Calif. Feb. 18--Like another tsunami sweeping onto shore, complaints about changes to the Sunday ONTV guide and cuts to the stock listings poured in for a second week.

By The Fresno Bee, Calif. Jan. 30--The Fresno Bee

By Michelle Hatfield, The Modesto Bee, Calif. Dec. 12--TURLOCK -- Among the crop of tenure-track professors hired this fall at California State University, Stanislaus, is a sociology lecturer believed to have been part of a cult accused of abusing children and prostituting women.