The Foilies 2024: Recognizing the worst in government transparency
By Electronic Frontier Foundation and MuckRock We’re taught in school about checks and balances between the various branches of government, but those lessons tend to…
Read MoreBy Electronic Frontier Foundation and MuckRock We’re taught in school about checks and balances between the various branches of government, but those lessons tend to…
Read MoreBy Nick Brunner The issues of lack of housing affordability and availability are likely to hover around Sacramento for some time, but there’s no shortage…
Artists reconvene to further discuss Wide Open Walls following failed mural project By Hannah Ross Artists of all stripes gathered for the monthly meeting of…
By Chris Nichols for Capital Public Radio Advocates for California’s foster youth are criticizing Governor Gavin Newsom’s plan to cut several programs they say are…
Free event to be held in Auburn City Hall, with Q&A included By Margie Yee Webb for the Gold Country Writers’ newsletter We are…
By Keyshawn Davis In the emerging residential and commercial River District in Sacramento, Alchemist Community Development Corporation is planning a public market for the community…
It is one of the state’s greatest health needs, companies fail to live up to their policies, and the state does not invest what is…
By Kelly Candaele,, Capital & Main This story is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main and co-published here with permission. What do…
By Dan Bacher Representative Josh Harder (CA-9) is leading a group of his Delta region colleagues to urge the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to…
By Keyshawn Davis Seven months ago, Joseph Rival drove to California from Oregon with his mother, who’d recently had a stroke, because she wanted to…
By Hannah Ross On an overcast Saturday afternoon, two kites hover above a 41-acre swath of lush California green dotted with the remnants of a…
Rejecting years of unequal treatment, 20,000 low-paid California State University student assistants and workers vote to organize. By Mark Kreidler, Capital & Main This story…
Working on the crime podcast ‘Trace of the Devastation’ meant revisiting events some would rather forget. But is forgetting them even possible? “I wasn’t sure…
With mass layoffs tearing through US media, here is what we need to save a crucial journalistic ecosystem. By Alissa Quart, Economic Hardship Reporting Project The…
In Placer County’s main courthouse, just past its front metal detector, there is a document pick-up area with stacked metal baskets. One basket is marked…
By Hannah Ross In Roman lore, Minerva, goddess of wisdom, commerce and arts, was born out of Jupiter’s head, split with a hammer to release…
By Marie-Elena Schembri In 2023, the city of Sacramento ranked in the top three U.S. cities for percentage of unsheltered homeless individuals and families and…