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Kids' Dental Plans Are Optional, Extra in New Health Exchange
The board of California's new health care exchange meets Thursday to talk about what kind of children's dental coverage to offer under the Affordable Care Act. Covered California is required to sell pediatric dentistry plans -- but the exchange has made those plans an optional extra. Health advocates say that's the wrong way to go.

Citrus Psyllid Forces Quarantines in Nine Counties
Quarantines are in effect in nine California counties as the state's citrus industry braces against the spread of the Asian citrus psyllid. Quarantines didn't stop the psyllid from establishing itself across Southern California -- but the stakes are high, and farmers don't have too many options.

Dry Year Taking Toll on State's Reservoirs
It's one of the driest years on record in California. Folsom Lake, about 25 miles east of Sacramento, is at half its capacity. Low water levels will force everyone who docks their boats there to remove their crafts by Sunday, August 11. It's not unusual for Folsom Lake to lose water over the course of the summer, but the boat-removal order typically comes in the fall, not early August.

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