Ian Rankin’s research and hardened realism has universal appeal I first learned of Scotland’s literary shadow weaver while strolling down Edinburgh’s Young Street in 2015. I’d…
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By Scott Thomas Anderson In its nearly 70-year history, Walmart has added groceries, prescriptions and even on-site oil changes to its discount portfolio. Now, at…
A controversial proposal to limit what people can bring to protests is back after being pulled a Sacramento City Council agenda last month. But the…
By Scott Thomas Anderson Donis Whaley woke up one recent night and realized it was all happening again. Whaley was born and raised in Port…
From urban development to safety and public health, suburban mayor sees big possibilities in tech By Scott Thomas Anderson West Sacramento Mayor Christopher Cabaldon recently…
Lack of land acquisitions, billions in cost overruns make some lawmakers trouble one of Jerry Brown’s largest infrastructure projects By Scott Thomas Anderson Just days…
The Trump administration on Tuesday granted a mother’s desperate appeal to be allowed into the United States to hold her dying infant son one last…
The hikers stopped when they saw the skeleton splayed out along the manzanita and scrub brush. It was weather-beaten. A cervical vertebra was missing from…
By Scott Thomas Anderson A question has haunted towns and marinas along the Delta for five months:What happened on June 23 in the waters near…
By Scott Thomas Anderson, Karlos Rene Ayala and Pachia Lucy Vang In conjunction with the USC Annenburg Center for Health Journalism, The Sacramento News &…
Sacramento and Amador among 31 California counties claiming that Big Pharma companies perpetrated an organized criminal conspiracy For Chris, it started with a trip to…
Psychologist’s refugee story remains a motivating force behind her trauma work in Sacramento When Dr. Carolee Tran recalls her last glimpse of Vietnam as a child, the most…
In 1976, Robert By Khang was lost in a city where no one spoke Hmong, where no one could tell him that he’d gotten on…
On March 10, Sacramento police Detective Michael Severi sat in a courtroom describing a crime scene from last summer, after officers rushed into a house to…
A Roseville police officer shot in the face by a .45-caliber Glock in October 2013; a 13-year-old gunned down on the streets of Stockton with…
By Scott Thomas Anderson Seventeen bodies were hauled out of the tunnel, some charred by fire, others choked in soot. The men killed that day…
Hidden money, weaponized disinformation and a strange turn in Folsom It was a cold night in February, and my car was inching through a rope of…