Sacramento News

More than 1,000 farm workers rallied in Sacramento Tuesday in support of placing a $9.3 billion water measure on the November ballot, that might help save the troubled California Delta.

The state capital will host the start and finish of the first stage of a premier bicycle race next year.

City fire investigators said Sunday that they haven't determined what started a fire in the computer lab at Leonardo da Vinci Middle School in Sacramento's Hollywood Park.

A registered sex offender has been arrested for allegedly soliciting a 14-year-old boy for sex in Sacramento, authorities said Monday.

Union Pacific Railroad Co. has agreed to pay $102 million to the U.S. Forest Service for a devastating 2000 wildfire north of Sacramento in a landmark settlement that dramatically increases the stakes in ...

Sacramento city crime rates dropped compared with the same time period last year, but homicide cases are up more than 30 percent, the Sacramento Police Department said Tuesday.

The longtime owner of downtown's historic Sterling Hotel and Chanterelle restaurant is closing the businesses next month - citing a tough economy.

More than 600 people paid their respects yesterday to captain David Harold Kouba, an Iowa man whose dangerous life led him from crop-dusting in Mississippi and Australia to flying missions from 1968 to 1975 ...

Cool, moist weather and steady attacks by firefighters have brought the number of wildfires still burning in Northern California down to fewer than three-dozen. A month after lightning ignited firestorms across ...

Sacramento City Council will consider Tuesday evening a plan to raise the sales tax by a quarter cent for the next 30 years to combat gangs.

Sacramento authorities have made an arrest in a fire of a popular Natomas playground.

In the debate over California's precious water, the talking points are very clear.

Visitors looking for a boat tour along Sacramento's historic waterfront are having trouble finding a boat -- and sometimes even the ticket counter.

Divers have recovered one body and are looking for seven other people believed drowned in a California canal.

Lawmakers on Monday failed to compromise on changes to the $9.9 billion high-speed rail bond voters will take up in November.

SACRAMENTO -- Saying California children shouldn't breathe soot so people across the country can buy cheap televisions, legislators today voted to impose a fee on every container moving through the ports of ...

The southbound lanes of Interstate 5 will not reopen until Thursday afternoon after extreme heat last week caused a hitch in ongoing construction and forced a difficult decision to extend the work calendar, the ...

Personnel at Leonardo Da Vinci Middle School in south Sacramento were cleaning up Sunday after a two-alarm fire damaged the school's computer lab late Saturday, Sacramento Fire officials said.

Seated behind the wheel of a fire engine, Dave Breglia follows a map dotted with expensive homes threatened by wildfires.

Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Jul. 19--When the city of Elk Grove unveiled its new transit buses four years ago, it laid claim to the nation's only all-hybrid municipal commuter fleet.