By Scott Thomas Anderson Randy Rossi throws some muscle against the gear-shifter of his Kubota ATV as it plows through broken powder on a mountain…
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By Tim Stroshane, policy analyst for Restore the Delta If the California Department of Water Resources says it, it must be official: “Most of the Delta…
By Scott Thomas Anderson During a recent lunchtime rush, a small team of workers at Corti Brothers’ delicatessen called out orders as they wrapped and…
By Julie Cart for CalMatters There’s a hive of PhDs at the University of California at Davis who are working to reinvent food production in…
Sac City Unified will take the COVID punch, to an extent Re: “Essay: During virus surge, Sac City Unified failed its most vulnerable students” by…
By Scott Thomas Anderson There has been a lot of recent fretting about whether universities still represent America’s “market place of ideas.” Most of these…
Southerner with one foot in the Sierra foothills copes with being cut-off from a cherished place By Casey Rafter The reek of smoke lingers in…
District Attorney Candidate Alana Mathews’ Vision: ‘Safer, Fairer, More Just’ Sacramento County By Antonio Harvey, The Sacramento Observer This story is co-published with The Sacramento…
Native daughter channels family history into the Capital’s broader legacy with motorcycles By Scott Thomas Anderson The late Italian motorcycle racer Marco Simoncelli once said,…
By Dan Bacher For many years, federal, state and corporate proponents of building more dams in California have touted cold water river releases provided by increased water storage…
By Rachel Becker for CalMatters Smoke and ash from wildfires near Lake Tahoe — one of the deepest lakes in the world — is already…
More Sierra residents evacuate the Caldor Fire as others get the OK to return By Ken Magri For several decades, the Sierra Nevada mountain range…
Mick Martin has become a sage of raw wisdom for Capital City musicians: ‘When they’re going through moments of self-doubt, kick them in the ass.’…
Tomorrow, Sept. 1, was supposed to be the official cut-off point for all City of Sacramento employees to be at least partially vaccinated – or…
Fire fighters from across the state converge on the Caldor fire to save structures and a mountain highway By Ken Magri There is a hot…
City Council on track to steer $10 million directly to the Capital’s creative economy as venues and artists try to recover By Scott Thomas Anderson…
By Kristen Hwang for CalMatters In the past month, four emergency room nurses — exhausted by the onslaught of patients and emotional turmoil wrought by…