This Week

On Tuesday, the public will get its first chance to weigh in on a proposed Sacramento city budget that would include the layoffs of 62 firefighters and 34 police officers.

The pink-clad crowd of runners and walkers planning to gather Saturday at Cal Expo for the Komen Race for the Cure looks to be considerably smaller than last year's.

This could be a big day in the eight-month-long labor negotiations in the Northern California supermarket industry.

Joey Chestnut may be a hot dog-eating champion, but he doesn't turn his nose up at vegetables.

This Sunday marks the 42nd annual observance of Earth Day, which debuted in San Francisco in the ecology-conscious 1970s and has since gone global.

Attention, taxpayers. If you're just waking up to next week's tax-filing deadline, here's a welcome reminder: You've got two extra days.

Skinny jeans and Uggs will give way to white gloves, parasols and flowered hats Saturday when the Historic Old Sacramento Foundation stages the 17th annual "Living History" Easter Bonnet Promenade, which will be fol- lowed by a Spring Ball.

People who need medical, dental or eye care can get it free from Friday to next Monday at Cal Expo in Sacramento.

Find out how you can go to college – and get some free food – at the 12th annual Cesar Chavez Youth Leadership Conference on Saturday in Roseville.

The UC Davis police officers union heads to court this week with its objections to the public release of a report on the pepper- spraying of students in November.

On Tuesday, UC Davis plans to announce the results of an investigation into the pepper spraying of students and other protesters on the campus in November.

On Saturday, the Undy 5000 comes to Sacramento for the first time. It's a 5K run/walk sponsored by the Colon Cancer Alliance in cities around the country. And, you guessed it, many participants run or walk in their undies.

It's Presidents Day: The kids are off school, the grown-ups are off work and the stores are promoting big sales with patriotic themes. But whom, exactly, are we celebrating?

Tuesday night marks another test in the city's quest to prove by the NBA's March 1 deadline that it can build an arena for the Kings in the downtown railyard.

The Sacramento County Board of Supervisors Tuesday is expected to formally start a planning process that could lead to development on thousands of acres of farmland north of the Sacramento city limits.

Between 25 and 30 high school football players from around the Sacramento region are expected to sign letters of intent Wednesday, accepting scholarships from four-year colleges.

You don't have to be a serious bird-watcher to appreciate the majesty of a towering sandhill crane or a tundra swan that has flown from Alaska to winter in the Central Valley. Those big, showy birds are among the many migratory species that abound in the Central Valley during January.