Undocumented immigrants have been going without health care coverage in Sacramento County since budget-strapped officials cut off that aid in 2009. Nearly six years later…
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By Brooke Purves Families waiting to get into a housing voucher program may have to be extra patient. In its annual study, the U.S. Department…
By Brooke Purves Vapers beware: Senator Mark Leno recently introduced a bill to classify electronic cigarettes containing nicotine as a tobacco product, and regulate them…
By Brooke Purves California joined an elite list of states last month in requesting protection of its nearly 140,000 homeless residents from discriminatory law enforcement…
The city of Sacramento doesn’t formally evaluate its 20 departments, including those providing police and water services, but wants to start doing so in the…
By Brooke Purves Russell Bartholow says he was arrested or cited hundreds of times during the 15 years he lived under a bridge in Oak…
A shooting after a concert in downtown Sacramento late Friday night didn’t result in any human deaths. But it may have dealt a critical blow to…
Five infants died during an 11-day span that ended February 15 in Sacramento County, coroner records show. The most recent was reported Sunday night at Methodist…
Step aside, Mac Worthy. A relatively new cadre of residents has forced itself into the rotation at weekly Sacramento City Council meetings, haranguing officials with almost…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
By Kel Munger It’s not surprising that Capital Christian Center pastor Rick Cole decided a publicity stunt was the best way to help Sacramento’s homeless…