A flurry of votes in Sacramento: California passes gasoline price-gouging penalty bill
By Dan Bacher Despite Big Oil spending more than $34.2 million to lobby the Legislature in the last two years – and millions more over the…
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Legendary rockers Blue Öyster Cult to make rare appearance at The Venue in Thunder Valley Casino on April 1
By Eddie Jorgensen It’s hard to believe 56 years have passed since guitarist Buck Dharma – a.k.a. Donald Roeser – first formed a band under…
Sacramento’s Celebration Arts receives $700,000 state grant
Funding will help the Black theater organization expand Its operation By Verbal Adam, Sacramento Observer This story is co-published with The Sacramento Observer, a newspaper…
‘Uprooted’ exhibit opens in Sacramento, commemorating the darkest moment – and the tale of survival – for Californians of Japanese descent
By Alesha Blaauw Sacramento’s Japanese American community gathered in excitement as the “Uprooted: An American Story” exhibit was opened in the California Museum on a…
California’s drought is not over
Following the power and the money for the stories deeper than atmospheric rivers. By Mark Schapiro, Capital & Main This story is produced by the…
Sacramento’s Miller Park becomes a safe ground for those experiencing homelessness
Tenants housed at the park use leftover pandemic trailers By Ken Magri This winter’s unusually cold, windy and rainy weather has created big challenges for…
Letters: Everything sucks everywhere all at once
Sleep in the fentanyl-dealing bed you made Re: “Money, Snapchat and implied malice: Why a fentanyl dealer was charged with murder as Placer’s deaths soared…
The Foilies 2023: Recognizing the worst in government transparency
By the Electronic Frontier Foundation and MuckRock News It seems like these days, everyone is finding classified documents in places they shouldn’t be: their homes,…
California considers giving the incarcerated a right to vote
It takes a constitutional amendment followed by a statewide vote to legalize balloting behind bars. Will it happen? By Bobbi Murray, Capital & Main This…
Irreversible: How chaos at Auburn’s ‘neighborhood bar’ led to a hard-fought murder trial
It was just past 1:35 a.m. when Auburn police sergeant Anthony Davis and his partner Stan Hamelin pulled up to a blue-collar bar on the…
From its gleaming whiskey vault to the area’s biggest Celtic party, Father Paddy’s Pub in Woodland is a growing destination
By Scott Thomas Anderson Patrick Redmond has some questions to ask before pouring a glass of whiskey. That is, if he’s guiding a person through…
Stout Rebellion keeps bringing the Irish musical bravado, and fun, to the Capital region
By Casey Rafter It was Irishpalooza and Harlow’s dark curtain was lit green as the jaunty sounds of a tin whistle cut the air. The…
Expert architects present new book in Sacramento on how to build better affordable housing
By Graham Womack Across the street from one another in San Francisco, David Baker Architects created two housing complexes that are indistinguishable — at least from…
Trauma is on the menu for some heavy-handed hard rock and metal at Sacramento’s Ace of Spades on March 16.
By Eddie Jorgensen Looking for the ultimate tour package that will please from beginning to end? Look no further: Queensrÿche’s ‘The Digital Noise Alliance’ tour will be…
In the middle of a mental health crisis among youth, words matter
To deal with huge health care disparities, some Californians focus first on a single concept: equity. By George B Sanchez-Tello, Capital & Main This story…
‘What they see is what they’ll be’ – prominent local Black men attend parent and youth conference
By Verbal Adam, The Sacramento Observer This story is co-published with The Sacramento Observer, a newspaper with more than 58 years of bringing public service journalism…
Sacramento’s gang and homicide prosecutors close out the winter with multiple convictions
The year 2020 was a shocking one for Sacramento County as its neighborhoods endured the worst spike in gun-related homicides the region had witnessed in…