Sacramento CA

The long-awaited thunderstorms are headed to the Sacramento area. The weather system is expected to trigger isolated thunderstorms with “lightning, gusty winds, brief heavy rain and small hail,” according to the National Weather Service. San Joaquin and Stanislaus counties were under tornado warnings for part of Friday afternoon. But the weather service’s Hanford office said the system moving west “may intensify.” What should...

Steven Hanson bought a showplace in one of the most coveted neighborhoods in Lincoln, 30 miles north of Sacramento, in 2008. He then transformed it into a flowing hub for entertaining — starting with taking down a wall. “It was a formal living room, which nobody ever uses anymore,” the founder of Hanson Truss Components said. “We incorporated that into the pool table room so...

Construction is officially underway on PG&E’s Momentum substation in west Placer, a high-voltage project billed as the power backbone for the massive Placer One development and Sacramento State’s planned Placer Center. County officials, utility crews and U.S. Rep. Kevin Kiley showed up for the ceremonial kickoff as heavy equipment rolled onto the site.

A severe thunderstorm warning rolled across the Northern Sierra foothills early Friday, pelting the region with quarter-size hail and powerful gusts that forecasters warned could damage vehicles and property. Small mountain towns from Downieville and Alleghany through nearby foothill communities were put on alert as a tense line of storms pushed through.

Sacramento is rolling into the weekend under mostly cloudy skies and about 55°F at Sacramento Executive Airport as of Friday morning, April 10, and Mother Nature is not easing into things. Rounds of showers and thunderstorms are marching through the Sacramento Valley into the weekend, with the heaviest rain expected Friday into Saturday and snow levels dropping in the Sierra. Gusty southerly winds...

A Kentucky judge has blown up a plea deal in a murder-for-hire case linked to the killing of a Sacramento HVAC business owner, saying the case belongs in front of a jury. The accused, a Napa man, had been ready to plead guilty to conspiracy charges in a plot prosecutors say involved a former California Highway Patrol captain. Instead of a quiet...

Shortly after I started at The Sacramento Bee in December, I cornered Sean Timberlake, our food and drink reporter. I needed a list of brunch recommendations. While it’s not uncommon for me to go out to new restaurants by myself, there’s something deeply romantic to me about trying out a new place for brunch, book in hand and The Sacramento Bee mobile app open...

Pizza Factory is moving into Folsom Village, taking over a storefront that previously housed a martial-arts studio and bringing its West Coast pies to the Oak Avenue Parkway retail strip. The new spot will give locals another quick-serve pizza option in a corridor that is not exactly short on slices.

In an industrial corner of Sacramento, neighbors say they were blindsided when they learned of plans to install a human crematory inside a funeral home less than 1,000 feet from houses and D.W. Babcock Elementary School. Residents say they are worried that routine cremation can release toxic metals and particulate matter, and that the proposed unit would sit uncomfortably close to homes and schoolchildren...

What started as a brazen hit on a neighborhood mailbox in Elk Grove ended with two people in handcuffs just a couple of hours later, after a neighbor’s video and a license-plate reader helped police track down a suspect car. Officers say a probation search then turned up more evidence and pointed to additional victims, and the pair now face a stack of...