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…
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By Scott Thomas Anderson, Karlos Rene Ayala and Pachia Lucy Vang In conjunction with the USC Annenburg Center for Health Journalism, The Sacramento News &…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
“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…
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…
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…
A former police officer looks to tackle untraceable assault weapons Mike Gipson smiled as he walked through a lamp-studded hallway inside the state Capitol. Not…
Almost every district attorney had a personal story about the monster with many names. Anne Marie Schubert remembered being a 12-year-old suburban girl in the…
Performer’s situation draws sympathy from the judge handing out the sentence At 25 years old, Deandre Rogers is officially out of strikes. The South Sacramento…