Sacramento wants to run a 145-mile power line through our backcountry
There is a project moving quietly through Sacramento that will change rural North County forever, and most of the people who will live with it have never heard its name. It is called the Golden Pacific Powerlink. A 145-mile, 500-kilovolt transmission line. Steel lattice towers up to 200 feet tall,...
Sky River Launches Light & Wonder’s Huff n’ Puff Link
ELK GROVE, CA – Sky River Casino is the first Northern California property to install Light & Wonder’s Huff N’ Puff™ Link, the latest addition to the Huff N’ Puff slot franchise. The Huff N’ Puff series, themed around the “Three Little Pigs” story, has...
Bee Appetit: Head to Freeport Boulevard for these slippery, slurpy noodles
Embarking on my crawl of Freeport Boulevard, I started last month with a visit to Taste of Original . For my next stop, I popped into yet another nondescript strip mall to hit up another regional Chinese restaurant, Old Gui Lin . Whereas Taste of Original serves up traditional Cantonese dishes, Old Gui Lin serves the f
El Dorado Hills super commuter spends 25 hours a week driving, with most clients...
Commuting for work is part of life for so many families and – in our coverage area– driving for hours daily is becoming more-and-more common. It's called super commuting– and CBS Sacramento's Charlie Lapastora rode along with a 'super commuter' for a day to see what it's like – and why there's a need to drive so far– f
Auburn Boulevard to close for two nights as crews install new gateway arch
By Sara Beth Williams– — As part of the Auburn Boulevard Complete Streets Phase 2 Project, crews will be closing a section of Auburn Boulevard overnight to install a new gateway arch across Auburn Boulevard at the city’s northern border with Roseville, the city announced Wednesday. To...
K Street shooting defendant Payton takes stand, recounts deadly 2022 shootout
Mtula Payton sprinted down 10th Street toward J Street and his parked car, firing behind him as he ran. He didn’t know who he was shooting or where the gunshots were coming from, he said. “Everybody was running in the same direction as me. People were getting shot around me. I was scared,” Payton told his attorney Reed
Independent jeweler vacates Sunrise Mall
By Sara Beth Williams– — Almost one year after combining businesses, a jewelry company has vacated its space at Sunrise Mall, leaving only A-frame signs and empty jewelry cases behind its closed gates. Kay Jewelers remains the last jeweler standing in the main mall corridor after a recent...
Man in custody following standoff in Sacramento
(FOX40.COM) — A man is in custody following a standoff in Sacramento with Sacramento County sheriff’s deputies on Thursday afternoon. According to the sheriff’s office, the man, identified as Austin Carter, barricaded himself inside a garage at a home on the 4700 block of Goya Parkway around 3:15 p.m. Deputies said Car
No hot water, cockroaches. What else was found at these Sacramento-area eateries?
Sacramento County Health Inspectors gave four Sacramento-area facilities red placards for health food violations including finding 38 German cockroaches and a lack of hot water. Inspectors also cited two eateries for violations including raw marinated chicken left out on the prep counter out of proper holding temperatu
Home Values Are Rising in Sacramento County, But Some Families Fear the Tax Bill...
The new figures show continued growth in the county’s real estate market, driven by rising...

















