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…
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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…
One of Sacramento’s few Black firefighters quits, citing hostile work environment
Past and present city fire department members say that there’s no accountability for bullying, harassment or racist behavior Desmond Lewis wanted to be a firefighter…
Sacramento man repeatedly tried to report wide-scale unemployment fraud, but was ignored by multiple agencies
When Kevin Renfro thinks about $10 billion in unemployment benefits going to devious criminals rather than desperate Californians, his sense of exasperation goes beyond the…
Former EDD worker from Roseville, Sac probationer among first arrested in billion-dollar unemployment fraud
South Placer woman allegedly took out an unemployment claim under the name of a U.S. senator Prosecutors have started what’s expected to be a years-long…
Heroin sales in Sacramento fueled the Aryan Brotherhood’s deadly conspiracy at Folsom State Prison
Conviction in RICO case involves five killings, three attempted assassinations If federal prosecutors have their way, Samuel Keeton will be the first of many dominoes…
For rural counties with state prisons, stopping inmate unemployment fraud is daunting
Rural prosecutors say they don’t have the resources to tackle California’s widening unemployment scheme behind bars Over the last two months, investigators across California determined…
The strangest sheriff’s race: Hunter Thompson’s flight from Northern California led to a groundbreaking campaign
Directors of ‘Freak Power: the Ballot or the Bomb’ discuss bikers, provocateurs and visionary politics Beginning in 1965, an obscure Bay Area reporter embedded himself…
Forced labor trial reveals a disturbing side of human trafficking
Ads placed overseas for housekeepers and nannies were a gateway to abuse A Sacramento couple was sentenced to 15 years each in federal prison for…
Return of the survivor
Mario Garcia brutalized women for years, but his conviction for Christie Wilson’s murder was assisted by the one woman he didn’t break On a January…
Battle begins to save rare redwood forest in Northern California
Conservation groups sue massive logging project as violation of Endangered Species Act For many, the lush, towering redwoods along Sonoma County’s Gualala River are vestiges…
Sacramento County experiences 23 homicides in three months
City could see a 50% increase in murder rate over 2019 When Sacramento police officers raced to the scene of a shooting at a 150-year-old…
Spann gets life span behind bars for attempted murder of deputy
Man terrorized light rail commuters as he tried to execute a peace officer While reporters and family members were watching Joseph DeAngelo get sentenced…
Fire from the sky
Inside the early evacuation that followed a lightning-driven inferno in Nevada County It started with a sound like the sky splitting open. Around 2 a.m….