Why has the white working class embraced Trump?
By Kelly Candaele,, Capital & Main This story is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main and co-published here with permission. What do…
Read MoreBy Kelly Candaele,, Capital & Main This story is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main and co-published here with permission. What do…
Read MoreBy Dan Bacher Representative Josh Harder (CA-9) is leading a group of his Delta region colleagues to urge the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to…
By Keyshawn Davis Seven months ago, Joseph Rival drove to California from Oregon with his mother, who’d recently had a stroke, because she wanted to…
By Hannah Ross On an overcast Saturday afternoon, two kites hover above a 41-acre swath of lush California green dotted with the remnants of a…
Rejecting years of unequal treatment, 20,000 low-paid California State University student assistants and workers vote to organize. By Mark Kreidler, Capital & Main This story…
Working on the crime podcast ‘Trace of the Devastation’ meant revisiting events some would rather forget. But is forgetting them even possible? “I wasn’t sure…
With mass layoffs tearing through US media, here is what we need to save a crucial journalistic ecosystem. By Alissa Quart, Economic Hardship Reporting Project The…
In Placer County’s main courthouse, just past its front metal detector, there is a document pick-up area with stacked metal baskets. One basket is marked…
By Hannah Ross In Roman lore, Minerva, goddess of wisdom, commerce and arts, was born out of Jupiter’s head, split with a hammer to release…
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…
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…