Sacramento City News

A boisterous crowd of 300 people marched to the state Capitol Saturday in celebration of Cesar Chavez, demanding an end to deportation and a path to legalization for undocumented residents.

Assembled hastily in a few weeks, Sacramento's arena financing plan remains a work in progress, with at least one key element yet to be nailed down.

A native New Yorker with extensive experience staging opera, symphonic music and other art forms has been picked to lead the soon-to-be merged organizations of the Sacramento Philharmonic and Sacramento Opera.

Herbert M. Brown, a veteran law enforcement officer who has been in charge of the FBI's Sacramento Division since January 2011, has announced he will retire effective April 30.

Set aside the talk of billionaire executives and flashy plans to redefine downtowns. The final stretch of the Kings saga will likely come down to which city – Sacramento or Seattle – has the more solid arena plan.

Mike Sophia, who has a long record of sports management and event organizing in the South, has been appointed the new director of the Sacramento Sports Commission by the Sacramento Convention & Visitors Bureau.

Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District firefighters rescued a dog that fell down a steep hillside on Wednesday along the American River.

Workers are putting the finishing touches on the Stanley Mosk Library and Courts Building at 914 Capitol Mall, a $49.7 million renovation project.

Elk Grove Unified School District will host a Night at the River Cats on May 3 as a fundraiser to benefit the school district's athletic programs.

Describing the Sacramento Kings saga as too complicated to settle in a day, NBA Commissioner David Stern said Wednesday that the league needs "a lot more data and information" before it can decide whether the team moves to Seattle or stays put.

A Sacramento mother said she felt panic Tuesday after learning that a substitute bus driver for the Natomas Unified School District dropped her 6-year-old autistic son at the wrong elementary school.

Sacramento City Unified School District trustees today will consider converting Rosa Parks Middle School to a K-8 campus to accommodate students displaced when neighboring Mark Hopkins Elementary closes in the fall.

As Sacramento's chief of police, Sam Somers Jr. will be expected to address the latest crime trends and the demands of residents eager for results: Violent and property crimes rose last year for the first time in six years.

Carla Jean Walker's tears soaked up half a box of tissues Tuesday while she sorted through the pain and what-ifs of her husband's murder.

High school students in Colusa, Glenn, Lake, Sacramento, Solano, Sutter, Yolo and Yuba counties can participate in the Congressional Art Competition by submitting entries to the Office of Rep. John Garamendi.

Sacramento County sheriff's deputies arrested a 28-year-old man early Tuesday morning after a robbery at a convenience store and a home-invasion robbery in the Fruitridge area.

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, "Barefoot Contessa" chef Ina Garten and former Vice President Al Gore head the lineup for the Sacramento Speaker Series in 2013-14.

Dueling teams of billionaires and mayors are heading to New York for a pivotal Wednesday showdown over the future of the Sacramento Kings.

A blue-ribbon panel addressing the outsized death rate for African American children in Sacramento County is recommending more education, outreach and community involvement to strengthen kids' odds of growing up.

Public perception has not been kind to Sacramento's central city. A series of high-profile crimes has fueled the notion that the downtown and midtown areas are no longer safe – places where even unsuspecting people can fall victim to violent crime.

The threat of rain didn't put a damper on this year's Easter Bonnet Promenade in Old Sacramento.

Sixty years ago today, the doors of Tot Town swung open. Tuition was $25 a month. Today, it's $760. But, while fees have gone up, some things have not changed.

The campaign to keep the Kings in Sacramento has developed into a larger civic plan, with some of California's richest business leaders promising to inject money and energy into the neglected heart of the capital city.

Sacramento's Howe 'Bout Arden shopping center is about to be sold to a Bay Area company that may convert the center and several adjacent properties into a massive "lifestyle" complex.

Life was perfectly fine at Good Faith Ranch in West Sacramento, where Patrick the spotted horse once grazed, lounged and entertained his human companion, animal writer Gina Spadafori.

The folks at the Sacramento-based state appellate court had begun to wonder whether Thomas Wolfe was right when he wrote his best-known novel, "You Can't Go Home Again."

Two of six defendants in a shootout that claimed the life of a young mother as she sought to shield her child from flying bullets were sentenced Thursday in Sacramento Superior Court.

Celeste Roseberry-McKibbin teaches speech pathology at California State University, Sacramento, by day and collects books for children by night.

Tenaya Ledeux and Cathy Grahnert chained themselves Thursday to a stagecoach.

A man who died in a standoff with police in Washington state was wanted in Sacramento for alleged real estate fraud.

The basketball war between Sacramento and Seattle ratcheted up Wednesday as both cities made moves to strengthen their claim to the Sacramento Kings.

Supervisors changed Sacramento County's overall housing policy Tuesday, laying the groundwork to possibly ease low-income housing requirements on developers.

Mayor Kevin Johnson wanted the Sacramento City Council to send an unmistakable message to the NBA about the city's commitment to a new arena for the Kings.

On the eve of a historic and controversial City Council vote, yet another "whale" has joined Sacramento's eleventh-hour push to keep the Kings basketball team in town.

The downtown properties that Sacramento officials are proposing to give to developers as part of a $448 million arena deal will increase sharply in value once the arena is built, several commercial real estate experts said.

One person was killed and two were wounded during a shooting at a party in a Natomas apartment early Sunday morning.

The Sacramento City Unified School District faces a $5.6 million budget gap next school year, smaller than in recent years but still leading to cuts such as the closure of seven elementary schools.

Walter Johnson was an active, 26-year-old man – a former high school track athlete, a tennis lover, an aspiring California Highway Patrol officer – when a bullet fired during an Oak Park robbery left him a paraplegic.

Sacramento's vivid poetry scene make it clear that people of all ages still want to connect in face-to-face settings to share a sense of community, exchange ideas and express themselves through creative use of language. Sacramento's vivid poetry scene offers that chance.

Team members all speak wistfully about the summer of '83, the last time a Sacramento team made it to the Little League World Series.

A former Sacramento police officer on Friday admitted falsifying three drunken driving reports and lying at a state Department of Motor Vehicles administrative hearing.

The name of the man who was hit and killed by a car Thursday morning while crossing Auburn Boulevard has been released by the Sacramento County Coroner's Office.

Sacramento County officials expressed disappointment Friday with a federal government decision to close the control tower at Executive Airport.

As Josiah Humphreys' loved ones struggle to make sense of his brutal death, they wonder, too, how it is that his attackers remain free.

A Sacramento Superior Court jury convicted Marquis Deonta Greenwood of felony murder Thursday in the shooting death of his partner during a Dec. 27, 2010, store robbery in Alkali Flat.

A Sacramento federal magistrate judge has found that negligence on the part of National Park Service officials caused a 9-year-old boy to plunge to his death off a mountain trail in Lassen Volcanic National Park in July 2009.

A teenage victim is suing the Sacramento City Unified School District and a former special education teacher convicted of child sex crimes.

Sacramento's drive to keep the Kings took a dramatic detour Thursday as a new lead investor emerged for the team and the city missed its self-imposed deadline for wrapping up a deal for a new arena.

The emergency room in Sacramento County has become the primary care clinic for many of the region's poor.

A reward of $100,000 is being offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of whoever killed Jessica Funk-Haslam, the Rosemont girl found dead a year ago.