Elk Grove News

An Elk Grove woman who apparently drowned while diving off the Sonoma coast on Sunday morning had just entered the water when she began thrashing about in a kelp bed on her way to open water, authorities said.

A young woman killed Saturday when the automobile she was driving went off Power Inn Road and crashed into a utility pole has been identified by the Sacramento County Coroner's Office as Brianna Farrar, 22, of Elk Grove.

Late Wednesday, Elk Grove police traveled to rural Stanislaus County to arrest a drug dealer they suspect of shooting a 19-year-old man in the head outside a record store Sunday night.

Freebirds World Burrito will open its third Sacramento-area restaurant Tuesday in Elk Grove.

Elk Grove police are asking for the public's help in locating 25-year-old Ryan Alan Hays, who is sought in connection with the shooting death Sunday of 19-year-old Joseph Oropesa.

A day after a young father was shot in the head outside an Elk Grove record store Sunday night, police continued their search for the unknown killer and a motive behind the crime.

Schoolchildren watched closely as water flowed from a rooftop gutter and trickled down a chunky copper chain and into a garden bed of plants.

Nguyen Quoc Quan, an Elk Grove man who spent six months in Vietnamese prisons in late 2007 and 2008 for championing democracy, was rearrested when he returned to Vietnam April 17.

After environmental groups strongly challenged the adequacy of an environmental impact review of Elk Grove's bid to expand by 8,000 acres, a county commission is preparing to circulate a revised report.

The Sacramento County Coroner's Office has released the name of the motorcyclist killed Thursday morning on the Capital City Freeway.

Community members are encouraged to dispose of unwanted and expired prescription medications at a drug disposal event sponsored by the Elk Grove Police Department and the Drug Enforcement Agency from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. today at the Elk Grove city administration building, 8380 Laguna Palms Way.

Families in Galt will have to wait a little longer to find out if their children will have a ride to their elementary or middle school come August.

The families of Galt elementary and middle school students will likely have to find a way to travel to school next year.

The city of Elk Grove is preparing to move ahead this spring on a long-held goal of creating a tournament-quality aquatic center and sports complex near the city's proposed Civic Center.

The city of Galt is seeking to draw visitors and boost civic fortunes with an entertainment complex that could include a bowling venue, cinemas, games and dining.

The city of Elk Grove, responding to a Sacramento judge's ruling, has reversed course and granted a maintenance contract for city vehicles to the low bidder – even though firm isn't based in Elk Grove.

The Elk Grove Unified School District will host two immunization clinics for its students in April and May.

Students and parents can learn about the Elk Grove Virtual Academy at four informational sessions.

Elk Grove got a taste this week of hurdles it faces in seeking to grow southward as residents questioned the city's need to expand, the availability of water and the loss of agricultural land.

Having already made three trips to search the banks of the Sacramento River that morning, Shabnam Ahmadyar's family sought some quiet respite in their Elk Grove home Monday afternoon.

The search for an at-risk missing teen, Shabnam Ahmadyar, has grown to include more the 100 people from the Capital Area Community Emergency Response Team, or CERT, the Elk Grove Police Department reported today.

The city of Elk Grove has launched an interactive art guide on its website that allows users to take a virtual tour and explore art in Elk Grove.

Phyllis McGee and Helen Baker, both residents of Camden Springs Gracious Retirement Living, a seniors community in Elk Grove, are walking their first half-marathon this weekend.

The Elk Grove City Council decided Wednesday night that persuasion is preferable to the prospect of barring smokers from lighting up inside their own apartment units in the city.

Jacob Rambo was sworn in as an Elk Grove Unified trustee Tuesday night.

The city of Elk Grove, citing its campaign to make streets safer, has added a new red-light camera east of Highway 99 to the intersection of Elk Grove Florin Road and Bond Road, the Police Department announced Tuesday.

The city of Elk Grove will take a wide-ranging look tonight at the long-fought issue of smoking, including whether to become the first city in the Sacramento region to restrict smoking inside rental units of apartment buildings.

The city of Elk Grove got it wrong late last year when it backed away from a low bid from a Sacramento business and opted instead to pay more to an Elk Grove auto dealership to maintain city vehicles, a judge said in a tentative ruling.

Dickey's Barbecue Pit will open a new restaurant today at 5110 Laguna Blvd. in Elk Grove.

Elk Grove Unified School District and its teachers union have ended a contentious yearlong contract battle that centered on health care premiums, confirming Wednesday they reached a tentative labor agreement.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc., which faced challenges last year in its bid to open a Supercenter in Elk Grove, announced Tuesday that it has hired a general contractor to begin work on an even larger general merchandise store at the same site.

Elk Grove police found a dying or dead man in the roadway at Elk Grove Boulevard and School Street at 3:55 a.m. this morning.

Students at Elk Grove Elementary School joined kids from San Francisco to Los Angeles to blow bubbles Thursday in protest of state budget cuts to education.

She was an aider and abettor of the first degree, the prosecutor said, and that's why Tamara Nicole Bassett was convicted in her retrial Friday of first-degree murder.

Local real estate investor Jared Katzenbarger plans to open a franchised Dickey's Barbecue Pit restaurant at 5110 Laguna Blvd., in Elk Grove.

Staying alert on the road will be even more important today in Elk Grove, when the Police Department will be targeting distracted driving in the city.

For the second time in five months, area elected officials will be asked to adopt the general alignment for a 34-mile beltway linking El Dorado County, Rancho Cordova and Elk Grove.

The Sacramento County Coroner's Office has released the name of a go-kart driver killed Saturday in a collision with a pickup in Elk Grove.

A go-kart driver was killed Saturday evening after being struck by a pickup truck, police said.

Elk Grove Unified school board member Pamela Irey resigned recently with less than a year left on her term.

This time the focus is on Tamara Nicole Bassett. Last time, it was mainly on her gang-member boyfriend, Raymond Thomas Vigel. He's the one who shot up a party in Elk Grove two years ago and killed an innocent 25-year-old woman, Alison Joelle Freeseha. The jury in their joint trial convicted him of first-degree murder, but it hung up on the question of whether his girlfriend stoked him into the shooting frenzy.

Galt City Manager Jason Behrmann's decision to eliminate some top executive posts, and the way in which he reportedly explained it to the Galt Herald newspaper, are elements of an age-discrimination lawsuit filed against the city.

A reward is being offered for the return of a designer snake stolen from an Elk Grove store.

Sheldon High School sophomore Brandon Galarpe watched movies most of the day Friday under the watchful eyes of substitutes. Only his Spanish teacher had showed up to work.

Dwight H. Dawes, a Navy officer on the USS Pillsbury, which captured a German submarine and vital enemy secrets during World War II, died Jan. 26. He was 92 and lived in Elk Grove.

It's not much, they acknowledge, but Elk Grove police hold out hope that an updated description of a pickup truck might spur the one tip needed to solve the killings of two Sikh men almost one year ago.

The Elk Grove City Council on Wednesday night approved one of the most restrictive medical marijuana growing ordinances in Northern California, requiring that any growing operation be conducted in a home or detached backyard building.

A group of Elk Grove residents has announced efforts to slow the city's push to expand its southern boundaries by 8,000 acres of mostly agricultural land.

Parents of students at Ellen Feickert Elementary School were alerted to a spreading flu bug at the school by letter Thursday.

In just a few short years, KOLT Run Productions founders Kelly Ogden and Lisa Thew have made themselves invaluable elements in the Sacramento theater scene.