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Local airports chief G. Hardy Acree wants to add a full-service center for large private aircraft at Sacramento International Airport. Scott Powel the owner of Sacramento Jet center, which refuels and overhauls jets at Executive Airport is one of the three finalists bidding to become Sacramento International's fixed-base operator.

Lake Tahoe Airport has been promised service this summer by a start-up airline, Tahoe Air. But South Lake Tahoe tourism officials aren't holding their breath. A coalition of city and [...]

The Port of Sacramento is negotiating with companies that want to use port land to build two heavy industrial facilities. One company wants to make concrete and asphalt. The other [...]

Pacific Bell is building a $15 million 'central office' switching center in south Placer County to meet continuing strong demand for phone services caused by high-technology development, added jobs and [...]

Darned near $1 billion. That was the total brought in by Jon Kelly in four days of the past week when he sold off his 43-year-old Kelly Broadcasting Co. - [...]

Two things stand out when you walk through the unfinished new Terminal A at Sacramento International Airport. First, it is designed with wide, easy-to-follow paths aimed at smoothly moving passengers [...]

PR firm claims audit of Caltrans pact was an act of revenge When Pacific/West Communications won the first of two contracts to do public relations for the California Department of [...]

The author examines calls for stricter noise pollution produced during landings and takeoffs by cargo aircraft at a Sacramento, California airport. Topics include noise pollution, noise control, and new legislation.

Elk Grove, California is seek funds to build more roads and facilities to cope with increasing numbers of commuters.

TRW Inc. closed a Sunnyvale, California, facility that was too expensive to continue operating, and moved 140 jobs to its McClellan Business Park site. By 2004 the company expects to have about 400 jobs at the new location. Mot of the jobs will be engineering and about 20 percent will be manufacturing.

When G. Hardy Acree took over as chief of the Sacramento County Department of Airports in December 1999, he quickly made funding arrangements for something he saw Sacramento International Airport [...]

In case you were wondering these are uncertain times. Sure, with the specter of war and terrorism on our doorsteps, people have become more wary, but really, since Sept. 11, [...]

GKM Corp. and Tully-Wihr Co. to combine operations A hundred jobs will stay in Colfax as the result of an industrial printing company's decision to stay and consolidate operations in [...]

Companies in the business of sending, sorting or receiving advertisements and letters through the mail have had to make adjustments because of the anthrax scare. Public relations firms that send [...]

Dorado Software claims it wasn't paid; client says the software didn't work right Dorado Software Inc., a 3-year-old Folsom company that develops network software, has sued to recover at least [...]

Siemens Transportation Systems Inc. plans to lay off 25 percent of the workers -- 250 employees -- at its South Sacramento factory over the next 11 months. All 200 of [...]

Security is tighter, you need a photo I.D. to board a Greyhound, and more midlevel execs are flying in private jets -- all that's part of transportation as usual now, [...]

When Robert and Debi Ravenscroft of Nevada City inherited $10 million betwee4 1996 and 1998, Robert decided not to keep the windfall in a trust account, where he'd be charged [...]

Dennis Ford's Sacramento window supply company, Inland Materials, got blind-sided by the Nimda computer worm on Sept. 21. The effect was crippling. The worm hit the company's Web site, e-mail [...]

But proponents are ready for planned Highway 50 push Sacramento City Hall wants to delay for two years a key environmental study on proposed Highway 50 car-pool lanes from Sunrise [...]

Tech company cites expected sales drop Grass Valley Group, expecting fewer sales of its broadcast technology to the slumping major TV networks, is laying off 10 percent of its global [...]

The terrorist attacks refocused America's attention on all kinds of security problems, including a type that didn't show up Sept. 11 but still troubles anyone who uses a computer - [...]

A giant of the printing industry, Consolidated Graphics Inc., is about to acquire its third large Sacramento print shop in five years. Houston-based consolidated Graphics (NYSE: CGX) has signed a [...]

Grounded aviation firms expect slow return to pre-attack revenue levels Alter a 10-day precautionary shutdown by federal authorities following the terrorist attacks of Sept 11, private pilots were cleared for [...]

Telestream Inc., a streaming-video technology company in Nevada City, is boosting distribution of its new FlipFactory software through a handful of deals with the American Broadcasting Co., IBM Corp. and [...]

If you want to stop a conversation, just ask the general manager of a local TV station how much advertising money the station lost when programming was pre-empted by last [...]

Two years ago, with investors throwing money at any dot-com that asked for it, Meridian Project Systems suddenly found itself looking at a field of 220 companies competing to sell [...]

Arctic Slope World Services has quietly closed its 12-employee Rancho Cordova headquarters, moving its operations to Anchorage, Alaska, near the main offices of parent Arctic Slope Regional Corp. The transfer [...]

Lower cost of living, better quality of life are big draw Nevada County continues to lure small technology migrants from the Bay Area. At least two companies have moved in [...]

Transportation systems were hopelessly bogged down when the Federal Aviation. Administration grounded all commercial air travel Tuesday, stranding airline travelers and diverting mail and cargo to trains and trucks. Hopes [...]

Four more small companies have moved to El Dorado Hills from the Bay Area and Southern California, showing that despite the tech slump, small tech companies keep moving to Greater [...]

Maybe it's an early sign. of a tech thaw. Or maybe Ai Metrix Inc. just has really good chops. Either way, the 5-year-old El Dorado Hills maker of telecommunications software [...]

Sacramento International Airport cleared customs this week in its quest to let Mexicana Airlines start offering nonstop flights to Mexico City next June 1. On Monday, the U.S. Immigration and [...]

After years of pushing hard, Pacific Bell could be seven or eight months away from breaking into California's long-distance phone business. If it succeeds, Pacific Bell will gain a cherished [...]

Just as intended, diversifying its newspaper holdings around the country is helping The McClatchy Co. smooth out the economic bumps in its different markets. Sort of. First half profit was [...]

EMonitoringSolutions.com, the Sacramento startup that sold online workplace surveillance software, has laid off its small staff. But the company hasn't officially closed, insisted board member Gilles Attia, a startup attorney. [...]

These are defining days for Sacramento International Airport. It is within nine months of offering its first foreign flights, while closing in on a long-term master plan for growth. But [...]

These are touchy times at Grass Valley Group, as the broadcast technology company tries to wait out a slow market while also funding a big research-and-development effort. The 361 employees [...]

Metro PCS Inc., a wireless phone company based in Dallas, plans to offer service in Sacramento and three other markets beginning early next year. The company, formerly known as General [...]

A newspaper turf war has broken out in El Dorado Hills, where affluent readers and increasingly bountiful advertising revenue are up for grabs. Brehm Communications Inc. next Wednesday will launch [...]

The day might be coming when you no longer take your car to the shop for a smog test. Instead, you'd push a button sending data from your engine to [...]

Metalink might ride back into black on back of Centaur telecom chip Metalink Ltd., an Israeli semiconductor company with its North American chip design center in Folsom, has slid back [...]

Technikon, a recently privatized company at McClellan Business Park, says it will partner with a division of Raytheon Co. to market air-pollution control technology to automakers and other industries that [...]

Glass McClure Advertising has won a one-year, $4 million pact with the state Department of Consumer Affairs to conduct a Smog Check advertising and public awareness campaign. The third-largest agency [...]

Ingraham remains the main shareholder Bob Ingraham's hair has a few more flecks of gray than it used to, all because he spent two years riding a pretty tricky wave. [...]

SureWest Communications has bought QuikNet Inc. of Roseville, the third-biggest locally owned Internet service provider in Greater Sacramento with about 8,700 subscribers. SureWest, formerly Roseville Communications Co., says the acquisition [...]

The Port of Sacramento is close to nailing down a $14 million loan from the state that would help the port start developing its planned 280-acre Seaway International Trade Center. [...]

Greater Sac's small Internet providers see their future in personal service, lower prices and a variety of access speeds The wave of mergers, and buyouts among Internet service providers might [...]