Sacramento News

A Republican has won a hotly contested state Senate contest in the southern San Joaquin Valley, with his top Democratic rival conceding Wednesday that the race will not go to a runoff.

A federal judge sentenced a Montana man to three years in prison on Wednesday for attempting to board a flight in Sacramento, California, with four loaded guns.

William Raymond De La Ossa, who served in the U.S. Army in Vietnam, is among those presented with a diploma on Tuesday.

Sacramento's core public services have been devastated the past five years, the result of persistent, historic budget deficits at City Hall.

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Thousands of law school graduates cannot find jobs as law firms cut back, as government agencies are squeezed, as corporations trim legal expenses and as technology handles rote legal work.

Sacramento police have arrested a man who they say has made more than 100 calls to 911 in the past several weeks.

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A Sacramento, California girl was killed and her parents were injured when gunmen opened fire on their home Saturday night.

Mayor Kevin Johnson had announced Friday that Sacramento rock band Cake would be headlining a rally for the Kings - previously scheduled for Wednesday - at downtown's Cesar Chavez Park.

A new report from the Legislative Analyst's Office says the state needs to assess its role in the MyCalPays debacle.

Why are so many so angry over the Kings staying in Sacramento? Judging by online reaction of Bee readers, you would think someone had stolen their firstborn.

The slaying of 10-year-old Elvira Campos as she sat and watched TV on Saturday night in her North Highlands house was not an accident, according to Sacramento County sheriff's homicide investigators.

Noel Coward once sang that only "mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun," but he never attended the Pacific Rim Street Fest, where more than 10,000 visitors poured into Old Sacramento on Sunday.

Modern technology may have triggered the desire by a group of Sacramentans to trek across northern Spain, but inspiration has always come in many forms to pilgrims who have walked the Way of St.

Immigrant-rights activists from the Inland area and across the state are in Sacramento today for a rally on the state Capitol steps and to meet with legislators.

The California Senate passed a bill today that would shield pot shops following state guidelines for dispensing medical marijuana from prosecution for marijuana possession or sale.

Years before a Las Vegas psychiatric hospital bused a homeless, schizophrenic man to Sacramento without arranging contacts or a plan for care, a different hospital ditched Gabino Olvera on Skid Row in Los Angeles.

Authorities say a Temecula man who apparently shot and killed his wife and then turned the gun on himself has died.

A Northern California man faces up to six years in prison after pleading guilty to reckless driving causing the death of an Incline Village couple who was hit in a pedestrian crosswalk at Lake Tahoe in December 2011.