Crazy train
Lack of land acquisitions, billions in cost overruns make some lawmakers trouble one of Jerry Brown’s largest infrastructure projects By Scott Thomas Anderson Just days…
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A dying child, a distant mother and the Trump travel ban that stood between them
The Trump administration on Tuesday granted a mother’s desperate appeal to be allowed into the United States to hold her dying infant son one last…
What the bones say: Arrest in grisly murder made with luck, determination and a tale beyond the crime tape
The hikers stopped when they saw the skeleton splayed out along the manzanita and scrub brush. It was weather-beaten. A cervical vertebra was missing from…
Threat below the surface: Intake-related drowning in the Delta coincides with revelation about tunnels’ safety planning
By Scott Thomas Anderson A question has haunted towns and marinas along the Delta for five months:What happened on June 23 in the waters near…
In Their Own Voices: SN&R’s video interviews with Hmong survivors of ‘the Secret War’ in Laos
By Scott Thomas Anderson, Karlos Rene Ayala and Pachia Lucy Vang In conjunction with the USC Annenburg Center for Health Journalism, The Sacramento News &…
Corporate cartel logic
Sacramento and Amador among 31 California counties claiming that Big Pharma companies perpetrated an organized criminal conspiracy For Chris, it started with a trip to…
A healing voice
Psychologist’s refugee story remains a motivating force behind her trauma work in Sacramento When Dr. Carolee Tran recalls her last glimpse of Vietnam as a child, the most…
After the war: Trauma still haunts California’s Hmong community
In 1976, Robert By Khang was lost in a city where no one spoke Hmong, where no one could tell him that he’d gotten on…
Nowhere to go: Crammed shelters, a seller’s market and financial challenges brew recipe for a domestic violence disaster
On March 10, Sacramento police Detective Michael Severi sat in a courtroom describing a crime scene from last summer, after officers rushed into a house to…
Gunning for the source: ATF’s gun-tracing investigations are solving crimes across California
A Roseville police officer shot in the face by a .45-caliber Glock in October 2013; a 13-year-old gunned down on the streets of Stockton with…
Fire down below: Records reveal nearly 30 gas wells in the path of Delta tunnel project
By Scott Thomas Anderson Seventeen bodies were hauled out of the tunnel, some charred by fire, others choked in soot. The men killed that day…
A Dark Development
Hidden money, weaponized disinformation and a strange turn in Folsom It was a cold night in February, and my car was inching through a rope of…
A Sleepless case: How detectives, prosecutors won groundbreaking Ambien double-murder trial
Placer County attorneys spent weeks battling over whether two teenagers were killed by a recklessly dangerous pill-popper or an accidental victim of Ambien-induced parasomnia. The…
BREAKING: Citrus Heights Councilman Bret Daniels is losing the sheriff's race–and now he may be censured for stalking women
Last fall, Citrus Heights Police Chief Ron Lawrence summoned his officer to discuss a harassment allegation involving a sitting politician. It wasn’t the first time…
Fear and power in Sacramento: California populist Travis Allen stokes hyper-partisan rage
“I am so much like Donald Trump, it’s scary.” Paul Taylor, long-shot Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, was on the west steps of the…
The bling ring: Illegal gambling operation tied to ‘rich-as-f***’ gang in Sacramento
For the second time in four years, law enforcement has broken up an illegal gambling operation in California run by Israeli nationals. The latest investigation…
Can U.S. health care be healed?
A conversation with Elisabeth Rosenthal Editor’s note: Former New York Times reporter Elisabeth Rosenthal, MD, is the author of An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became…