This Week

Could this be the week that Sacramento finally gets some good news about Downtown Plaza, the fading shopping mall in the heart of downtown?

Donning snappy blue blazers and matching berets, U.S. athletes on Friday will parade into London's Olympic Stadium for the festive Opening Ceremony.

They're calling it a "petting zoo," but it doesn't involve animals. The Sacramento Public Library is hosting an event Wednesday at the Central Library where patrons can test various types of eReaders and learn how to download library books.

The folks who run the California State Fair are racing to get ready for Thursday's opening while hoping for cool breezes.

Wednesday is the Fourth of July, and today's column is about the places people in Sacramento can celebrate with fireworks.

Yee-ha! The longhorn steers will be running down Sutter Street in Folsom on Thursday night. Or trotting, anyway.

The California Public Utilities Commission is scheduled to decide Thursday whether to allow a Sacramento firm to store natural gas in a sandstone formation 3,800 feet below a southeast Sacramento neighborhood.

Father's Day is on Sunday, and Dad is about to get shortchanged, again. He'll receive a card, a tie, maybe some golf clubs if the kids are big spenders.

Remember Proposition 14? Chances are, the answer is no. Yet that 2010 ballot measure transformed the ballot you'll fill out in Tuesday's primary election.

Thousands of women and girls will run and walk through midtown and downtown Sunday in the Kaiser Women's Fitness Festival.