Sacramento CA

From Woodland to Rocklin and even Natomas, teachers in the Sacramento region are prepared to strike as soon as the spring.

Roy Waller, the convicted serial rapist known as the “NorCal Rapist,” had his prison term reduced during a Sacramento County Court hearing on Wednesday. Waller’s sentence dropped from 897 years to 858 years to life after one of his convictions was amended on appeal, and legal changes now make him eligible for elder...

A California jury has found Paul Allen Perez, 63, guilty of murdering five of his children. Perez was convicted on Tuesday, Jan. 6, of multiple counts of murder, along with one count of assault of a child under 8 with force likely to produce great bodily injury resulting in death, according to a news release […]

CALIFORNIA STATE -California health officials are warning that influenza is picking up fast across the state, with cases and hospital admissions rising as a new strain of influenza A(H3N2) spreads. (OC Health Care Agency) The warning comes as multiple counties have tragically confirmed flu-related deaths in recent...

When Sacramento Police Department pulled their school resource officers from Natomas Unified School District, the district did not wait around. It is shifting on-campus security to its own roster of school safety officers after the city reassigned the three officers who had been stationed on Natomas campuses....

Sacramento Councilmember Phil Pluckebaum wants to put a firm lid on how many homeless shelter beds can be packed into the River District. His newly introduced draft ordinance would lock the neighborhood’s current baseline at 526 beds, allow only a tightly defined increase tied to a planned safe-camping site, and...

(FOX40.COM) — After months of failed contract negotiations between several Sacramento area school districts and teachers unions, teachers across the community are prepared to go on strike. On Saturday, they teamed up with parents and students this afternoon for a strike-ready art build. “We need to work together,”...

To legally justify chopping down thousands of oak trees to build a controversial solar farm, the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors last year relied heavily on what is now false information — that the project was needed to meet the zero-carbon emissions goal of the Sacramento Municipal Utility District. How wrong...

The ornate blue Victorian at 2321 K St. that houses Midtown’s Cantina Alley and the recently opened Abuela’s is about to get a swank new lounge upstairs called De Caché. All three businesses are under the same ownership. De Caché is a Spanish language term meaning high end or classy, general manager Oscar Escobar...

A man accused of beating and robbing a woman with a gun inside a West Sacramento apartment was taken into custody Thursday afternoon after a regional SWAT team surrounded the unit and negotiated his surrender. The woman was taken to a local hospital with injuries described as non-life-threatening, and officers said...