Sacramento CA

The California Highway Patrol has issued a Feather Alert in three Northern California counties for a missing Indigenous teenager who was last seen in Sacramento County earlier this month. Authorities are searching for Journey Cienfuegos, 14, a citizen of the Susanville Indian Rancheria. She was last seen about 9 p.m....

A summer sleepover at a Sacramento home is under investigation after 34-year-old Orlando Guidry was arrested and accused of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl on July 26. According to the Sacramento District Attorney's Office, the girl told authorities she woke up during the sleepover to find Guidry on top of...

A Sacramento family reported that they only learned this month that a relative had died more than three years ago, and that his body had been kept in cold storage during that time without a death certificate. Nancy Louks said she discovered on Dec. 1 that her brother, 67-year-old U.S. Navy veteran Charles Harvey,...

The National Weather Service issued a flood watch for the Sacramento area and a wide swath Northern California as a series of warm, powerful storms — driven by atmospheric rivers — threaten to bring “prolonged” rainfall, elevated river levels and potential mudslides through the Christmas holiday week. The flood watch...

Country Herald is Local News, Independent Pulse. Covering breaking local news, sports, lifestyle and events. California — Mist hangs low over Sacramento this morning as wet pavement reflects headlights and traffic slows. Side streets already glisten, and steady rain is lining up to follow. According to the...

It was an all-hands-on-deck effort Thursday as crews worked quickly to clear storm drains ahead of a long stretch of rain expected to move through the Sacramento region.

The number of people killed on Sacramento County streets so far this year is now up to 148 and police say driving under the influence is one of the top factors.

The Sacramento City Unified School District is in the midst of a financial "crisis," according to a warning from a state oversight agency, which found the district's budget shortfalls could be larger than once anticipated at nearly $125 million by 2028.

I live on a fixed income in Sacramento, and prices have gone up faster than my budget. After housing and medical expenses, groceries became something I constantly worried about. I assumed food assistance meant long lines or complicated rules, so I avoided it.

The city of Sacramento reached a $160,000 settlement agreement with the father of a man who was shot to death by Sacramento police on a Regional Transit light rail train in August 2023. The agreement, signed earlier this month, dismisses the federal lawsuit alleging officers should have known Dante Dwaine Day, 44,...