The past and future of Franklin Boulevard
Efforts afoot along the historic corridor By Graham Womack When Jesus Lopez returned to Sacramento after attending San Francisco State University, going to work at…
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New cost estimate for high-speed rail puts California bullet train $100 billion in the red
By Ralph Vartabedian for CalMatters When Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled his scaled down blueprint for the California bullet train four years ago, he proposed building…
Rolling on the rivers: Tyre Nichols’ love for the Sacramento River carried into his life and legacy
By Douglas Cazaux Sackman At dusk, Tyre Nichols used to ask his friend Angelina Paxton for a ride down the Sacramento River Delta to catch…
Got Snow? The huge Sierra snow-pack is creating new and future problems
By Ken Magri While the Sierra snowpack has mostly ended California’s three-year drought, it is creating big problems for people who live in the mountains….
Housing California’s Chione Flegal on the ‘growing’ and ‘persistent’ lack of affordable housing
By Ben van der Meer Chione Flegal is executive director of Housing California, a nonprofit advocacy group on housing issues and a policy institute. She…
Upcoming Polar Plunge at Folsom Lake fuels dreams, inclusion by supporting the Special Olympics
The 2023 Greater Sacramento Polar Plunge & 5K Trail Run goes down on March 11 at Browns Ravine It might look like a madcap party…
Money, Snapchat and implied malice: Why a fentanyl dealer was charged with murder as Placer’s deaths soared by 450%
Carson Schewe held to answer for selling lethal dose even after two people he cared for died On a late winter afternoon, Kade Webb walked…
Sac State film professor debuts documentary on exploring environmental mysteries below Antarctica
Kathy Kasic’s new ‘Lake at the Bottom of the World’ premiers today on Amazon, iTunes Veteran documentarian Kathy Kasic has found a way to balance…
Will California leaders take a hard look at tax breaks?
Foregone revenues add up to more than double the amount of the expected deficit By Jessica Goodheart, Capital & Main This story is produced by…
How climate change threatens California wine
Longstanding varieties like Cabernet Sauvignon just can’t take the heat By Mark Schapiro, Capital & Main This story is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit…
After Woodland leads the way, region looks to build more year-round affordable housing for farmworkers
Law now mandates the first statewide study of farmworker housing conditions, needs and solutions By Jennifer Junghans When Tonia Ochoa, an agricultural worker in Woodland,…
Q&A with Sacramento County’s new Sheriff, Jim Cooper
Last December, Sheriff Jim Cooper was sworn in at the Sacramento State Ballroom, thereby becoming the first Black Sheriff in the county’s history.
Could shared homeownership work for Sacramento?
It could be on the rise in the Capital Region through apps such as Cher By Graham Womack Roshaun Davis is looking around Sacramento for…
California homelessness: Where are the state’s billions going? Here’s the new, best answer
By Ben Christopher for CalMatters In Sacramento, there’s a word that keeps popping up during discussions about the state’s homelessness crisis: “accountability.” Gov. Gavin Newsom…
Millennial Gangsters: Remembering the year heroin first exploded into body bags
It was the summer of Mohammad “Young Dros” Noor. The northern California heroin dealer had cash in his pockets, guns in his car and plenty…
Silicon Valley sits on the sidelines in the fight against homelessness in California
With the right app, you can get anything you want. So why can’t the unhoused find one to help them get a roof over their…
Second try at killing ‘a zombie’ – Rep. Josh Harder swings the axe again, trying to bring down the Delta Tunnel in Congress
By Dan Bacher Last Thursday, Democratic representative Josh Harder reintroduced his Stop the Delta Tunnels Act, a bill that would prohibit the Army Corps of Engineers…