Sacramento girlfriend-killer, Dimple Records shooting spree suspects face the music
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…
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A force beyond fire is still killing the forests – illicit black market grows
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…
Roseville advocate for gun laws swiped cops’ identities for illegal weapons sales
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…
A dagger to due process: Sacramento continues accepting controversial civil asset forfeiture windfall
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…
Dueling pens, torch-wielding mobs and a march to Alcatraz: Looking back at the region’s most fiery newspaper war
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…
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…
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…
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…