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Coronavirus: Sacramento County Gives Up On Automatic 14-Day Quarantines

California’s Sacramento County is calling off automatic 14-day quarantines that have been implemented for the coronavirus, saying it will focus instead on mitigating the impact of COVID-19. The change...

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Gov. Newsom Urges Caution as Protesters Push to Reopen California

Hundreds of protesters lobbying to ease Gov. Gavin Newsom’s tight stay-at-home orders rallied around the California Capitol on Monday, even as Newsom continued to urge restraint, saying the worst thing...

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Assembly Members May Get Tested for Coronavirus Before Returning to Sacramento

California Assembly leaders are considering whether to test all of its members and essential staff for the coronavirus before May 4, when the Legislature is scheduled to reconvene in Sacramento....

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Sacramento County Investigating Deputy’s Use of Force Against 14-Year-Old Boy

The Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department is investigating use of force by a deputy who was recorded on video as he struggled with a 14-year-old boy he was trying to detain. The 15-second video of the...

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Family of Teen Punched by Sacramento Deputy Calls for Officer to Be Fired,...

The family of a 14-year-old boy who was treated roughly by a Sacramento County Sheriff’s deputy say they want the deputy to be fired and charged with child abuse. A short video of the incident, which...

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Protests Mark Growing Unrest with California Stay-at-Home Order

Californians weary of stay-at-home orders that have left millions unemployed staged displays of defiance Friday, with hundreds of flag-waving protesters gathering in Sacramento. Meanwhile, Modoc County...

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Jewish Deli Transforms Into Community Kitchen to Feed Sacramento’s Vulnerable

They’ve been closed to the public for over a month, but early mornings are still busy at Solomon’s Deli in downtown Sacramento. By 7:30 a.m., Solomon’s co-founder and developer, Andrea Lepore, is in...

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Statue of John Sutter, Pioneer Who Enslaved Native Americans, Removed in...

A statue honoring a colonizer who laid claim to the land where the discovery of shiny flakes of gold sparked the California Gold Rush was removed Monday outside a hospital bearing his name in...

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The ‘Can’t-Stand-Up Comedian’: Dan Smith on Finding Comedy in Spina Bifida

For Dan Smith, mundane everyday chores can become fodder for his next comedy routine. On a warm January day, Smith tackled the usual domestic challenges at his home in Sacramento. He began by taking...

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California Lifts Stay-at-Home Order for Sacramento Region

California lifted a stay-at-home order in the 13-county greater Sacramento region on Tuesday following improving hospital conditions, a rare turn of good news as the state pushes through what Gov....

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Several Sacramento Students Are Still Trapped in Afghanistan

The U.S. ended its massive evacuations out of Kabul, Afghanistan, by President Biden’s Aug. 31 deadline — but as many as 27 California public school students remain in Afghanistan. The students, whose...

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Sea Level Rise | U.S. Rep. Jared Huffman | This Week in California Politics

Sea Level Rise in East Palo Alto As the impact of climate change is being felt in the form of bigger wildfires, deeper droughts and longer heatwaves, the community of East Palo Alto is preparing for...

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Scientists Find Traces of Omicron in Sewage From Sacramento and Merced

Update, 12:15 p.m. Tuesday: A scientific research team testing sewage in California reported late Monday that two genetic markers in the new omicron variant were found in wastewater samples from Merced...

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SF Assembly Race | Congressmember Eric Swalwell

U.S. Response to Conflict in Ukraine A group of lawmakers from the House Intelligence Committee recently traveled to the Ukrainian border for a firsthand look at the devastation. Among the bipartisan...

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Second Suspect Arrested in Sacramento Mass Shooting

Updated 10:45 a.m. Tuesday Sacramento police arrested a second suspect in association with the mass shooting that killed six people and confirmed he is the brother of the first suspect, Dandre Martin....

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A Mass Shooting in Downtown Sacramento

It may feel a little far from the Bay Area, but Sacramento is home to our state Capitol. And just a stone’s throw away from that building, in the downtown area, is where the city experienced its...

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Bonus: Your Stories and Solutions for the Housing Crisis

What are your biggest ideas on how to solve the housing crisis? How has housing shaped your life? Throughout this season, we wanted to hear from you — the Sold Out audience. We asked you to get in...

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SF DA Chesa Boudin | CA Extremists

San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin On June 7, San Francisco voters will determine whether the city’s top prosecutor will keep his job or be recalled. Those who want to remove District...

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Rare Monkeypox Outbreak in U.K., Europe and U.S.: What Is It and Should We...

Updated May 20, 2022 at 9:29 a.m. PT Editor’s note: This story was updated on May 23 to reflect the latest case counts. There’s a monkeypox outbreak in the United Kingdom, Portugal, Spain and other...

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CAL FIRE Director Joe Tyler | Mickaboo Companion Bird Rescue

CAL FIRE Director Joe Tyler As firefighters battle the McKinney Fire in Siskiyou County, we talk with CAL FIRE Director and 31-year veteran of the department, Chief Joe Tyler, about the agency’s...

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Farmworkers’ 24-Day March Culminates in Sacramento, Pressuring Newsom to Sign...

Update, 6 p.m. Friday: A broadly smiling California Gov. Gavin Newsom joined about two dozen jubilant, cheering farmworkers camped outside the state Capitol on Wednesday, September 28, to sign a...

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Newsom Launches New Term, Offers ‘Peaceful Contrast’ to Trump and GOP

California Gov. Gavin Newsom will kick off his second and final term on Friday by contrasting his leadership of the nation’s largest Democratic stronghold with that of Republican leaders he’s branded...

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Bay Area Scrambles to Clean Up as Yet Another Storm System Hits the Region

This story will no longer be updated.  Update, 6:15 p.m. Wednesday: The body of a 43-year-old Ukiah woman was recovered from a submerged vehicle in Forestville today, according to the Sonoma County...

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Two Bay Area Men Sentenced to Multiple Years in Prison for Plot to Destroy...

Updated 8 p.m. Wednesday  The two men who plotted to bomb the headquarters of the California Democratic Party, spurred by former President Donald Trump’s false claims of election fraud, were sentenced...

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Migrants Flown to California Were ‘Intentionally Deceived’

The state of Florida picked up asylum seekers on the Texas border Monday and took them by private jet to California’s capital city at taxpayer expense for the second time in four days, California...

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California Child Bride Survivors Protest to Outlaw Underage Marriage

They stood on the steps of the state Capitol, in white bridal gowns and veils, their wrists chained together and their mouths taped shut. They are survivors of forced and child marriages — and they...

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Sacramento DA Sues City Over Failure to Sweep Homeless Encampments

Sacramento’s top prosecutor is suing the city’s leaders over failure to clean up homeless encampments, escalating a monthslong dispute with leaders in the state capital. County District Attorney Thien...

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California Democrats Search for ‘Counter’ to Transgender Reporting Policies

When California’s top education official, Tony Thurmond, showed up at a local school board meeting in Chino this summer, he was ready for a fight. But this conservative school board was ready, too....

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A Tale of Two California Cities: Contrasting Responses to Unexpected Migrant...

Aura Silva was among 36 migrants who in early June were driven from Texas’ border to New Mexico and then flown to Sacramento. She had no family there to take her in and no knowledge of how to find...

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Unhoused Californians Are Living on the ‘Bleeding Edge’ of Climate Change

This story is part of the third season of KQED’s podcast Sold Out: Rethinking Housing in America. You can find that series here and read about why KQED chose to focus a season of its housing podcast on...

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