Federal agent went undercover to identify alleged player in Placerville dog-fighting conspiracy
El Dorado County won’t say what happened to 29 dogs that were rescued The liberation of 29 dogs reportedly destined to be mauled – or…
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Sacramento Fire attempts to change course, while another Black firefighter breaks his silence about alleged harassment
Tale of first responder who worked in the Capital City in 2017 suggests that some supervisors ignored the department’s official goals The Sacramento Fire Department…
A rural horror story: Detectives found Dante Campbell’s victims just as he eyed another woman
For investigators, it was two shocking discoveries in a 24-hour window – a pair of women who’d vanished from the quiet ranchlands east of Sacramento…
Editorial: Lost moment at the state capitol offers a window onto ‘the person sitting in darkness’
Sometimes our present woes are best understood through the pain others felt in the past For 45 years May has been the month of the…
Suspect named and sought in American River College-area murder
Sheriff’s Office warns the public to be vigilant, Noied considered extremely dangerous UPDATE Patrick Lavell Noied Sheriff’s investigators have announced a suspect in the May…
A search for answers after Sacramento electrician is murdered near American River College
T.J. Wellman-Holochwost had a wanderlust that made him want to experience the world. From the lagoons of Venice to the spires of Barcelona, the former…
Rescue intervention or convenient cover? Sacramento’s new massage parlor ordinance faces accusations of hurting the women it claims to help
The Sacramento Sex Workers Outreach Program doesn’t deny that human trafficking happens, or that victims of it are hurt in profound ways, but it also…
City Hall drops the legislative hammer on Sacramento’s massage parlors over trafficking fears
Council members wrestled with whether their policy might fuel stereotypes during a fraught and dangerous time for Asian-American women Sacramento officials are cracking down on…
Drug dealer from exclusive Granite Bay neighborhood tied to numerous overdoses, disturbing hotel arrest
Steven Robinson was living off an inheritance in a posh part of South Placer, but still helping spread the fentanyl scourge that’s cost thousands of…
Editorial: Combating the blues with California sunlight and the sounds of Sacramento
Our light at the end of the COVID tunnel feels like it’s arriving as the sky-glow of spring; but that does not mean peoples’ stress…
Sacramento’s Forever Goldrush celebrates 25 years, bringing its debut album to the digital age
For a brief moment in the late 90s, the Capital City was on the verge of being the next ‘big’ music scene — and a…
In the wake of man bringing live bombs, zip gun to Sac elementary school, major leap announced in campus protection tech
Authorities are being tight-lipped about what might have motivated Gustavo Aguilar, the 57-year-old man arrested last week for allegedly bringing two improvised, working bombs and…
The Buckhorn keeps steaks big, brazen and with the old breed
Fourteen miles past Davis is the rancher’s answer to perfect meat cut off the hoof Sun falls on the red, sky-beaten bricks of the DeVilbiss…
As vote looms over Rancho Cordova’s last open space, city’s mayor and vice mayor took money from the developer aiming to build over it
Developers, real estate groups and the construction lobby are Garrett Gatewood and Donald Terry’s top political donors For months a coalition of Rancho Cordova…
Shooting ghost guns and singing narco ballads: A Rocklin arrest story
Drug cartel linked to Michoacan, Mexico, smuggled fake oxys loaded with fentanyl into the region More than 2,800 Californians have died of fentanyl overdoses since…
Sacramento Fire grapples with work culture after second Black firefighter resigns
Two department veterans recount startling unprofessionalism, Chief vows to chart a new course When Sacramento city firefighter Waris Gildersleeve heard that his colleague Desmond…
How the region’s ports can pour the winter away
When the wind’s fierce and the rain’s cold, those are the perfect evenings for the most devilish kind of wine indulgence. Western Iberia’s vino tradition…