Living on a Fixed Income in Sacramento Isn’t Easy
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.
Sacramento pays $160k settlement in death of knife-wielding man on light rail train
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,...
Pursuit of stolen dump truck from Roseville ends with Highway 50 crash in Sacramento
A police pursuit of a stolen dump truck that started Wednesday in Roseville ended with the same vehicle crashing and overturning on the same busy stretch of Highway 50 in Sacramento where a helicopter crashed two months ago . The pursuit began near Angus Road in Roseville, where officers tried to pull over the stolen...
Elk Grove police motorcycle officer in crash taken to hospital as precaution
An Elk Grove police officer on a patrol motorcycle was involved in a crash with another vehicle Thursday and taken to a hospital as a precaution. The vehicle crash occurred in the westbound lanes of Kammerer Road just west of Highway 99. Westbound vehicle traffic was being diverted onto Promenade Parkway, the Elk...
Sacramento police investigate El Camino Avenue shooting that wounded a man
Officers continue to investigate a shooting that wounded a man and involved a vehicle crash Wednesday evening on El Camino Avenue in North Sacramento. The shooting was reported shortly before 5 p.m. in the 1600 block of El Camino Avenue, between Princeton Street and the Capital City Freeway, in the Ben Ali section of...
Much of Northern CA under flood watch. How’s that different from flood warning?
As a series of winter storm systems sweeps through the West, Northern California residents are bracing for rain , mountain snow and possible flooding. The National Weather Service issued a flood watch for much of the region on Friday, Dec. 19, warning of rising river levels, rockslides and more. “Never drive across...
Data Report: How the City responded to homelessness Dec. 8-14
The City of Sacramento has released its weekly progress report for the City’s Incident Management Team (IMT) responding to homelessness. From Dec. 8-14, the City of Sacramento received 542 calls to 311 customer service related to unsheltered individuals. These calls resulted in 2,001 “cases” being opened, a new data...
Which Sacramento eateries offer Christmas meals? These 9 spots will be open
Christmas is already less than 10 days away. Santa Claus has made his list and checked it twice, while some Sacramento residents review their gift and grocery lists for holiday get-togethers. But if visions of sugarplums and freshly cooked ham feel like a nightmare before Christmas, some Sacramento-area eateries will...
Blue Diamond looms large in Sacramento. The site’s future is an open question
Before a series of upgrades beginning in the 1990s, more than 80 people stood shoulder-to-shoulder over the conveyor belts at Blue Diamond’s plant in midtown, sorting and grading the stream of incoming almonds, picking out stray sticks and rocks. Now, equipped with more efficient machinery, this section of the plant...
Camera stolen from Sacramento film training center for people with disabilities
A Sacramento media and film training center for people with disabilities is dealing with the loss of one of its cameras after it was stolen in broad daylight.
