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...
View ArticleGov. 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...
View ArticleAssembly 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....
View ArticleSacramento 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...
View ArticleFamily 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...
View ArticleProtests 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...
View ArticleJewish 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...
View ArticleStatue 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...
View ArticleThe ‘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...
View ArticleCalifornia 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....
View ArticleSeveral 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...
View ArticleSea 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...
View ArticleScientists 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...
View ArticleSF 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...
View ArticleSecond 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....
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleBonus: 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...
View ArticleSF 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...
View ArticleRare 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...
View ArticleCAL 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...
View ArticleFarmworkers’ 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...
View ArticleNewsom 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...
View ArticleBay 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...
View ArticleTwo 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...
View ArticleMigrants 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...
View ArticleCalifornia 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...
View ArticleSacramento 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...
View ArticleCalifornia 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....
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleUnhoused 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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