Yet another setback for PG&E wildfire victims
By Emily Hoeven for CalMatters All roads lead to Sacramento. That’s one takeaway from the convoluted series of events that led to tens of thousands…
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A stand in Sacramento: Stand.earth, Amazon Watch demand California end role in rainforest destruction
Youth activists and environmental groups hang 75-foot banner on city’s famed Tower Bridge to challenge Gov. Newsom’s Big Oil affiliations By Dan Bacher On…
California oil and gas industry leans on political heavyweights to drill wells
New well count rises as governor appoints oil lobbyist to top role. By Aaron Cantu, Capital & Main This story is produced by the award-winning…
Journalist from Sacramento takes readers behind the conservative media curtain in ‘Write Wing’
J.P. Ba sets his literary aim on a news landscape gone awry By Scott Thomas Anderson A journalist who was raised in Sacramento – cutting…
Q&A: Doug Kobold of the California Product Stewardship Council discusses how products can be disposed of properly without harming the environment
What do unused medications, batteries, cell phones, paint and motor oil have in common? For one, if they are dumped in the wrong place, they…
Grow Your Own for 4/20!
It’s Spring, and good Cannabis is relatively easy to grow By Ken Magri They don’t call it “green gold” for nothing. At $4.6 billion, Cannabis…
Duplex housing law met with fierce resistance by California cities
By Manuela Tobias for CalMatters The state housing department is gearing up to send stern warnings to cities trying to skirt a new housing law…
Metropolitan Water District votes to fund embattled Sites Reservoir project in Sacramento Valley
Environmental groups continue to slam the project as irresponsible By Dan Bacher The Board of Directors of the Metropolitan Water District, or MWD, the main water…
Revisiting the Watch: In the wake of a numbing, gang-related murder, the Hawk Institute keeps pulling youth triumphs from the shadow of tragedy
Following the horrific mass-causality event in Downtown Sacramento on April 3, community interest in meaningful gang-prevention initiatives is at an all-time high. The following in…
After Sacramento shooting, a state prison release proposal is even more contentious
By Ben Christopher for CalMatters Timing is everything. Since the early months of the pandemic, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has been scrambling to…
Four months after Sacramento redistricting, coverage chaos descends on City Hall
The Mayor: “We have a real problem here.” Who’s the Sacramento City Council member representing your district until November? Ask that one question in City…
Alone on the Atlantic for 70 days, man fought wind and waves for kids with cancer
Owen Gray’s 3,000-mile voyage raised $196K for the Okizu Foundation By Frank X. Mullen As he neared the end of his 10-week solo trip across…
It was Saturday night: The shadow of death
A slow return to the scene that changed everything They just prayed their way through the wind. It was the first Saturday night in Downtown…
‘Antidote to hopelessness’: Emmy-winning investigative journalist from the region pens book on climate change miseducation
By Ashiah Scharaga When Katie Worth began working on her book about climate change education in America, she did not anticipate ending up back in…
Wages rise for many, but not for Californians most hit by inflation
A state secret comes into the open: how inflation targets the poor. By Mark Kreidler, Capital & Main This story is produced by the award-winning…
A healthy kind of help: Vegan program brought 70,000 meals to the Sacramento area during COVID
Program found a niche reaching undocumented families in need of food By Tyra Willis When Anthony and his dad Don needed help during the pandemic,…
Editorial: ‘True at first light’
Sunday morning was like a bad dream. But not a person’s rough, restless hours in the dark, rather the horrible hallucination of an entire living city….