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Country Herald is Local News, Independent Pulse. Covering breaking local news, sports, lifestyle and events. Sacramento, California – Temperatures are set to plunge to 28 degrees by 4 a.m. Friday across parts of the Sacramento Valley, creating freeze conditions that could damage crops and leave icy patches on area...

Origin Materials, the West Sacramento maker of PET bottle caps and other carbon‑negative packaging, is cutting local staff at its Riverside Parkway facility by what executives call "a little more than half" as part of a sweeping companywide reorganization. The move will sharply shrink the plant's headcount as the...

In a meeting closed to the public, the Sacramento City Unified School District decided to lay off hundreds of workers amidst its budget deficit. Around 400 positions will be cut, including teachers, paraprofessionals, and counselors. Three members of the board were not present during the 3-1 vote. Some positions,...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The United States Department of Justice says that on Thursday, federal charges were filed against 20-year-old Brian Richard Girardot Jr. of Sacramento for possessing a firearm within a school zone. Court documents revealed that on February 18, 2026, Girardot, a former student of St. Mary Parish...

Back in 2000, city councilmembers made $600 a month, which is $7,200 a year, and that amount has never been changed.

When Sara Granda crashed on the freeway between Davis and Woodland in 1997, she was paralyzed from the neck down. It took over a year for her to recover enough to receive care at home. “I was life-flighted to UC Davis Medical Center, where they did actually save my life,”...

By Sara Beth Williams– — A gas station previously owned by a prominent local businessman in Citrus Heights and then taken over by ARCO AM/PM last fall, has been listed for sale with a price tag exceeding $11 million. The long-standing gas station on the corner of Sunrise...

A scare on Ash Wednesday at St. Mary's Church in East Sacramento where a person with a gun was detained while trying to get inside.

Two workers became trapped outside a building in Sacramento, California on Wednesday, Feb. 18

Sacramento County health inspectors closed an Ethiopian restaurant and sandwich shop after they found more than 55 live German cockroaches and 22 dead cockroaches. Meanwhile, a total of six received yellow placards for health code violations ranging from an employee not washing their hands to old food debris on the...