By Marie-Elena Schembri In 2023, the city of Sacramento ranked in the top three U.S. cities for percentage of unsheltered homeless individuals and families and…
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Beauty 2 The Streetz visits Sacramento to provides local homeless with beauty supplies, essentials By Katerina Graziosi Dusk falls as Shirley Raines sits at the…
The state has matched fruit and vegetable purchases at farmers markets for low-income residents for seven years. That may soon end. By George B. Sánchez-Tello,…
By Sterling Davies Airrea Craven, 24, has just secured a hotel with government funds for her and her two daughters to stay for the week,…
For many, premiums and deductibles now take three times more out of one’s budget than 20 years ago, UC Berkeley study shows. By Mark Kreidler,…
Community members rally against ‘superficial stereotypes’ in mural project By Hannah Ross Wide Open Walls is finally having its day of reckoning, according to many…
By Scott Thomas Anderson The lines for Sacramento’s District 4 have been redrawn and local politicos are waiting to see what that means for representation…
By Carolyn Jones for CalMatters California schools will have to spend $2 billion of their remaining Covid relief funds on tutoring and other measures to…
A $33 a month average rate hike took effect Jan. 1. Now PG&E wants up to $20 a month more. Reformers say it is time…
By Keyshawn Davis Several years ago, Nadia Niazi met a woman who had been homeless for 19 years. For Niazi, the experience proved life-altering as…
By Lynn La for CalMatters Describing California’s homelessness crisis as “inhumane” and “unhealthy,” Senate GOP leader Brian Jones of San Diego and Democratic Sen. Catherine…
By Hannah Ross The Greater Sacramento Economic Council has launched a new partnership with the Sacramento Entrepreneurship Growth Alliance that will work to enhance the…
While promising to boost local health care and tech economies, UC Davis’s Aggie Square project raises concerns for Oak Park community By Keyshawn Davis Discussions…
By Keyshawn Davis In 1982, Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency was formed by the city and county as a joint powers authority. These local governments…
By Dan Bacher As the Delta Smelt has become virtually extinct in the wild – and as spring-run, winter-run and fall-run Chinook salmon populations on the…
Facing eviction after 30 years, Mike Balog says moving out would mean losing his community, part of his identity and having nowhere else to go….
By Ken Magri Maisha Bahati stands proudly inside her new storefront. “We took so many risks,” she says. After four years of hard work and…