Sacramento CA

Sacramento police are seeking the driver who struck and killed a pedestrian on Bannon Street early Saturday morning in a hit-and-run. Officers found the unidentified man with life-threatening injuries about 4:45 a.m. Saturday in the 400 block of Bannon Street, near Union Gospel Mission Sacramento in the city’s River District. Officers and Sacramento Fire Department responders tended to the man, who died at the scene, the Sacramento Police Department said in a statement. The Sacramento County Cor

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California homeowners who embraced tiny homes as an affordable housing solution say they were left with unfinished projects, mounting bills, and significant financial losses after paying thousands of dollars to a company founded by two brothers. One customer was left with an empty backyard after paying more than $40,000 for...

A gambler at Thunder Valley Casino Resort in Lincoln near Sacramento won a six-figure jackpot Saturday, Oct. 24 on a $5 slot machine. The player won $102,917 on a $50 bet on a “Dragon Link Happy Prosperous” slot machine, the casino said in a news release. “Every jackpot creates a special moment, but there is something particularly exciting about seeing a $5 bet turn into a six-figure payday,” said Dawn Clayton, CEO of Thunder Valley Casino Resort. “We love celebrating these incredible wins with

It took ten years, a trial, an appeal and a fraud case, but California says 136 people who lost their jobs and final paychecks when a West Sacramento printing company shut down are finally getting paid. The state Labor Commissioner’s Office announced on October 16, 2026 that it has recovered about $1,988,000 for former workers […]

On the morning of Nov. 17, 2024, Nyota Koya, a 66-year-old Black woman from Roseville, lost consciousness during an encounter with a Sacramento police officer named Matthew Sterling. She died a week later without ever regaining consciousness. Nearly two years later, the Sacramento Police Department still has not told her daughter and the public whether it disciplined the officer. Now Koya’s daughter is left to seek damages through a lawsuit. Koya had been stranded in a parking lot at Haggin Oaks

Temperatures were spot-on average across California this past weekend, but cooler air will arrive this week and create a window for rain as Halloween nears. On Monday morning, a few showers will fall along the northern Coast range near Eureka and into the Klamath mountains in far Northern California. These showers won’t make their way to Sacramento, but a few passing clouds over the region are expected late morning and early afternoon as the decaying pulse of earlier rain passes. Otherwise, it w

Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 1000 held a one-day strike in downtown Sacramento on Wednesday. The statewide strike comes after months of unsuccessful negotiations between the union, Gov. Gavin Newsom and the California Department of Human Resources (CalHR), according to a Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) Unfair Practice Charge filed by the union Friday, Oct. 9, 2026.

LOS ANGELES — Another potentially impactful Pacific storm is taking shape for California and the Southwest late this week into Halloween weekend. Confidence is growing that a developing low-pressure system will bring cooler temperatures, more moisture, and unsettled weather. Southern California has a high chance of widespread rain sometime from Friday through Monday, with Saturday and Sunday currently favored. The storm could also bring heavy mountain snow to the Sierra Nevada.

Dennis Godby walked into Seattle's Pier 62 last month and finished something that took him five years, five separate trips and one open-heart surgery to complete. The 70-year-old naturopathic doctor from West Sacramento had just closed out a roughly 3,450-mile trek across the United States, broken into stages so he could keep treating patients and stay close to his wife of nearly 40 years back home.