The Willow Clinic provides ‘critical, life-saving’ services to Sacramento’s unhoused
By Ken Magri Once a week, UC Davis students, many of them medical majors, team up with an attending physician to offer free medical services…
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California’s freshwater ecosystems are in urgent peril: new report suggests a portfolio of tools may help
By Jennifer Junghans In California, nearly 4,000 native plant and animal species depend on the state’s freshwater ecosystems. Trout, salmon and smelt run the rivers…
CleanStart’s Thomas Hall and Christina Granados on the importance of community outreach in clean-tech development
By Hannah Ross As Sacramento looks to build a more sustainable and inclusive economy, in part thanks to an influx of state funding set to…
Rocklin’s ReCreate helps turn trash into treasure with ‘hot glue and imagination’
Store diverts waste from landfills with little shop of wonders By Russell Nichols Everything — and everyone — that comes through the doors of the…
After heated battle with alum and community, UC Davis changes course with KDVS relocation
Cherished radio station will still move, but to a space more suitable for critics By Casey Rafter The scent of dust and decaying adhesive fills…
Under the radar – having gone by an alias, suspect in 40-year-old Roseville cold case makes his first appearance in court
Four decades and four-hundred miles of space had separated Richard Moore from the Roseville alcove where Madeline Garcia was savagely killed in 1984. On Monday,…
Gavin Newsom backs down on crime measure
Report from CalMatters In a stunning, last-minute reversal, Gov. Gavin Newsom is scrapping the anti-crime measure he and Democratic legislative leaders just announced. It had…
Healthy food choices need more than new recipes
Group cooking and exercise classes help low-income Californians treat chronic conditions. By George B. Sánchez-Tello This story is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital…
Mobile shower program offers hope, dignity for Sacramento’s unhoused community
By Chris Nichols Seven days a week, Mark Lytal starts his day before dawn cleaning shower stalls at the Sacramento Pipeworks property in the River…
Trump’s environmental agenda: Embrace big oil, ignore the climate crisis
Project 2025 plan to gut climate policy and boost fossil fuels could set back global efforts for decades, say scientists and analysts. By Marcus Baram,…
Doxxing victims in California may gain right to sue to ‘bring some power back’
By Jenna Peterson When Kathie Moehlig’s personal information was leaked online five years ago, she didn’t believe she had enough options to fight back. “There…
‘What’s done in the dark will be brought to the light’: After 40 years, investigators make arrest in shuddering murder of Madeline Garcia
Cold case SN&R has been covering breaks open with apprehension of man who was teen suspect in unrelated arson near killing scene ‘You may throw…
CalRecycle’s leader, Zoe Heller, on battling plastic pollution and working for a cleaner climate
In May, Gov. Gavin Newsom appointed Zoe Heller as the new head of CalRecycle. Heller is a circular economy and zero waste specialist with a…
Will California’s largest oil well owner get a pass on paying to clean up Its mess?
A new state law mandates that oil companies put up money to plug wells before acquiring them. It could fail its first big test, putting…
Prison and Reentry Education Program at Los Rios colleges may not continue
By Keyshawn Davis In 2016, Mule Creek State Prison in Ione introduced an education program for its inmates to earn their associate degrees. David Cable…
California hits Amazon with fines under warehouse worker law
By Jeanne Kuang for CalMatters California workplace regulators are fining Amazon $6 million over alleged violations of a recent warehouse labor law at two of…
In Deep Water: New documentary looks at how water and food resources are being snatched up by powerful interests around the world
‘The Grab’ director Gabriela Cowperthwaite discusses her documentary that is both a geopolitical thriller and a call to action. By Alex Demyanenko, Capital & Main…