After long search, homeless youth provider finds new home
Wind Youth Services is moving to Midtown. After eight months of ironic real estate hunting, the region’s only service provider for homeless youth has finally…
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Sheriff, probation chief stick with successful offender rehab program
An offender rehabilitation program that once scrapped for support from a skeptical law enforcement community has flourished under contracts with Sacramento County’s sheriff’s and probation…
Warming centers open tonight
Get ready to come in from the cold. With a biting, gusting wind expected to plunge temperatures into the lower 30s, the city and county…
FBI seeks Sacramento's help in IDing mystery woman who died 25 years ago
Sacramento may hold the key to identifying a woman whose remains were found a quarter century ago and who may have spent much of her…
California's unlicensed youth shelters add regulations
By Brooke Purves New interim regulations released by the California Department of Social Services aim to soften some standards for runaway and homeless youth shelters,…
Rancho Cordova will continue to outsource police services through 2017
After a midnight soul search early Tuesday morning, the Rancho Cordova City Council begrudgingly agreed to continue contracting police services from the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department…
BREAKING: Homeless activists arrested during city council meeting
By Brooke Purves Three homeless advocates were detained at Tuesday’s Sacramento City Council meeting while protesting what they consider to be anti-homelessness regulations. Detained for…
Return of the messenger: How Jeremy Renner’s new film Kill The Messenger will vindicate Sacramento investigative journalist Gary Webb
Nearly two decades after the reporter exposed a connection between the CIA and crack cocaine in America, Hollywood chimes in with a major movie By…
Philthy Rich cancels Sacramento performances following alleged gang threats
A controversial Oakland rapper abruptly canceled two gigs in Sacramento this week after online threats of violence reached the clubs’ owners. Philip Beasley took to…
Desperately seeking justice
By Raheem F. Hosseini and Scott Thomas Anderson Savannah knew she was going to die. Tortured and trussed in handcuffs, cable ties and electrical tape,…
Ace of Spades takes over Assembly
Things at K Street’s newest music venue, Assembly, just got … newer. Ace of Spades will be taking over shows at the Randy Paragary-Bob Simpson nightspot…
Sacramento's gun store regs are a matter of consistency, not politics
The national gun debate ties people into knots. Enduring modest protest, the Sacramento City Council last month adopted new requirements for firearms dealers wanting to operate…
Police avoid biting attacks, hatchet job during Sunday Sacramento patrol
“I’ma bite your hand!” As the great Oakland poet MC Hammer never said, “Stop! It’s hammer-crime.” Sacramento police contended with weird weaponry while on patrol…
Local Pastafarians question the use of prayer in Rancho Cordova City Council meetings
Sacramento is home to at least 52 Pastafarians—aka followers of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. And they’re boiled over. Of course, 52 is…
Mac Worthy celebrates his birthday by saying the n-word. A lot.
Mac “Pimping the People” Worthy turned an energetic 72 yesterday, and boy was our favorite public speaker in rare form. He spent his birthday doing what…
Test your taxi driver skills
Over the grumbles of struggling taxi drivers and some immigrant-owned cab companies, a Sacramento city committee pressed on with a multi-year effort to reform the…
New, contentious Darrell Steinberg bill to give special treatment to Kings arena
The proposed Sacramento Kings arena will soon receive a Kevin Johnson-worthy assist from Darrell Steinberg: The state senate leader plans to introduce an 11th-hour bill…