By Janine Mapurunga Community members gathered in celebration at the third-annual Sacramento Brazilian Carnaval on Saturday, March 22 at CLARA in Sacramento. The event’s organizer,…
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By Dan Bacher The Sites Reservoir Project in Northern California, a controversial water project promoted by Governor Gavin Newson and opposed by a coalition of environmental groups,…
It was New Year’s Eve, 2019, and people were gathering at North Sacramento’s Ramada Inn to toast a coming decade. The minutes were counting down…
Is Sacramento a Noir town? Driving through Southside Park on a rainy night as showers brush the garden lights and Old I’s blazing, scarlet marquee…
Multiple violent offenders from Sacramento County have also been granted early release by CDCR in recent months. Looking down at a bloodied and contused teenage…
I could tell you stories about Bill Lavallie, the beloved photojournalist from the Gold Country who just passed away. Sitting in a bar with some…
Darkness can descend anywhere: This is a bleak truth pushing the gravity through Howard Blum’s “When the Night Comes Falling: A Requiem for the Idaho…
In a 12-month window, three young people – Spencer Newsom, Hailey Modesitt and Kade Webb – all died of fentanyl overdoses. But these fresh faces…
On an April afternoon, a team of CHP officers confronted a volatile man they’d been tailing – and they did it at a west Roseville…
Four decades and four-hundred miles of space had separated Richard Moore from the Roseville alcove where Madeline Garcia was savagely killed in 1984. On Monday,…
Cold case SN&R has been covering breaks open with apprehension of man who was teen suspect in unrelated arson near killing scene ‘You may throw…
Joan Didion wrote that “life changes in an instant.” She was describing how quickly Death appears when we’re not ready; but the same holds true…
On May 2, 1946, six inmates on Alcatraz island made a violent escape gambit – only to find themselves in an ill-fated showdown with prison…
Detectives investigate the killing of Cheyenne Loomer, celebration of life planned for April 27 in Penryn Cheyenne Loomer’s family wasn’t there to see all the…
After speaking at U.C. Davis, Stanford professor and ‘Entitled Opinions’ host discusses being a voice some are turning to as the human experience goes haywire…
Working on the crime podcast ‘Trace of the Devastation’ meant revisiting events some would rather forget. But is forgetting them even possible? “I wasn’t sure…
In Placer County’s main courthouse, just past its front metal detector, there is a document pick-up area with stacked metal baskets. One basket is marked…
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