Organized crime, gang-linked players continue to sell deadly fentanyl disguised as Oxy It’s being called the “parallel epidemic,” a merciless tsunami of death and family…
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For an instant, a disturbing situation near Auburn gave people close to Crystal McCarthy reason to hope she was still alive: The beloved musician, artist…
“Do not go gentle into that good night,” the poet Dylan Thomas warned us; but for 145 people who died lonely, anonymous deaths on the…
For more than a century, Glen Ellen was a refuge for outcasts: From Jack London to Hunter S. Thompson, lost loners flocked to this hideaway…
Ghost gun sale-turned-murderous encounter ends with guilty verdict Sacramento prosecutors spent the final weeks of fall seeking closure for a handful of families whose…
‘Ghost guns’ have been used in numerous mass-casualty events in California in the last nine years, while altered automatic weapons continue to inflict a tally…
It’s October in the Capital City and there’s a scarlet flair coloring sycamores and Japanese maples, ushering in a witching season for harvest moons and…
You can glean a lot from a culture by how it remembers its dead. In our corner of California, most ghost stories involve unlucky prospectors,…
Old Town Edinburgh was once known as the murky fishbone, a medieval fossil spine that descends in a deformed slope from its castle-head to the…
In mid-September, cable news networks became fixated on the disappearance of Gabby Petito, a 22-year-old YouTuber who’d vanished somewhere in the American high west. A…
Roseville brewery to host a big event this weekend, but its bourbon bravado is generating its own excitement The gold-glinting allure of whiskey flows from…
Oakley Hall’s ‘Warlock’ remains a towering achievement in California literature Writers, like cowboys, can find themselves penned-in. They get locked in corrals of category. They…
The Black Swan epoch of 2020 saw homicide rates in California hit a 13-year high, with Sacramento police and sheriffs responding to nearly double the…
Four years after California created a legal, regulated marijuana industry that’s largely shepherded by contentious growers, its public lands continue to be decimated by criminal…
From the outside, Joseph John Deaser IV looked like the model of a reasonable gun dealer. He’d testified before the California legislature and Congress about…
No matter how many Americans have had their rights trampled through the forfeiture legal anomaly, Capital City leaders can’t get enough of the profits Law…
The waning days of the Gold Rush were overshadowed by tense journalistic standoffs around the Civil War In 1861, California’s Capital region was far from…