Sacramento’s Miller Park becomes a safe ground for those experiencing homelessness
Tenants housed at the park use leftover pandemic trailers By Ken Magri This winter’s unusually cold, windy and rainy weather has created big challenges for…
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The Foilies 2023: Recognizing the worst in government transparency
By the Electronic Frontier Foundation and MuckRock News It seems like these days, everyone is finding classified documents in places they shouldn’t be: their homes,…
California considers giving the incarcerated a right to vote
It takes a constitutional amendment followed by a statewide vote to legalize balloting behind bars. Will it happen? By Bobbi Murray, Capital & Main This…
Irreversible: How chaos at Auburn’s ‘neighborhood bar’ led to a hard-fought murder trial
It was just past 1:35 a.m. when Auburn police sergeant Anthony Davis and his partner Stan Hamelin pulled up to a blue-collar bar on the…
Expert architects present new book in Sacramento on how to build better affordable housing
By Graham Womack Across the street from one another in San Francisco, David Baker Architects created two housing complexes that are indistinguishable — at least from…
In the middle of a mental health crisis among youth, words matter
To deal with huge health care disparities, some Californians focus first on a single concept: equity. By George B Sanchez-Tello, Capital & Main This story…
‘What they see is what they’ll be’ – prominent local Black men attend parent and youth conference
By Verbal Adam, The Sacramento Observer This story is co-published with The Sacramento Observer, a newspaper with more than 58 years of bringing public service journalism…
Sacramento’s gang and homicide prosecutors close out the winter with multiple convictions
The year 2020 was a shocking one for Sacramento County as its neighborhoods endured the worst spike in gun-related homicides the region had witnessed in…
The past and future of Franklin Boulevard
Efforts afoot along the historic corridor By Graham Womack When Jesus Lopez returned to Sacramento after attending San Francisco State University, going to work at…
New cost estimate for high-speed rail puts California bullet train $100 billion in the red
By Ralph Vartabedian for CalMatters When Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled his scaled down blueprint for the California bullet train four years ago, he proposed building…
Rolling on the rivers: Tyre Nichols’ love for the Sacramento River carried into his life and legacy
By Douglas Cazaux Sackman At dusk, Tyre Nichols used to ask his friend Angelina Paxton for a ride down the Sacramento River Delta to catch…
Got Snow? The huge Sierra snow-pack is creating new and future problems
By Ken Magri While the Sierra snowpack has mostly ended California’s three-year drought, it is creating big problems for people who live in the mountains….
Housing California’s Chione Flegal on the ‘growing’ and ‘persistent’ lack of affordable housing
By Ben van der Meer Chione Flegal is executive director of Housing California, a nonprofit advocacy group on housing issues and a policy institute. She…
Upcoming Polar Plunge at Folsom Lake fuels dreams, inclusion by supporting the Special Olympics
The 2023 Greater Sacramento Polar Plunge & 5K Trail Run goes down on March 11 at Browns Ravine It might look like a madcap party…
Money, Snapchat and implied malice: Why a fentanyl dealer was charged with murder as Placer’s deaths soared by 450%
Carson Schewe held to answer for selling lethal dose even after two people he cared for died On a late winter afternoon, Kade Webb walked…
Supergroup tribute act, Death To All, gathers March 6 to pay homage to Death’s late bandleader at Goldfield Trading Post in Roseville
By Eddie Jorgensen For those lucky enough to have caught the metal legends Death in a live setting, no introduction to the band’s players is…
Sac State film professor debuts documentary on exploring environmental mysteries below Antarctica
Kathy Kasic’s new ‘Lake at the Bottom of the World’ premiers today on Amazon, iTunes Veteran documentarian Kathy Kasic has found a way to balance…