The Public Eye

Experts say that while a total collapse seems unlikely, if Caltrans miscalculated corrosion estimates a major quake could cripple sections of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.

The San Juan Unified school board on Tuesday will privately discuss employee complaints that Superintendent Glynn Thompson created a hostile work environment for some female administrators, according to district officials.

Local politicians, lobbyists and business leaders from the Sacramento region fly across the country each year to meet federal officials – and eat at some of Washington, D.C.'s, best restaurants.

The troubled Rio Linda/ Elverta Community Water District recently settled lawsuits brought by its former general manager for $264,000 – a payout that could undermine its ability to restore liability insurance.

In a dramatic change to their controversial discharge practices, Nevada health officials no longer will send state psychiatric patients alone on buses to cities across the country, they said Wednesday.

Despite the Brown administration's edict last year to sweep out nearly all retirees from the state workforce, more than two dozen departments still use them to fill some of the highest-paying positions in government, according to state data reviewed by The Bee.

A Sacramento County safety inspector alleges county workers may have suffered asbestos exposure last year after managers did not take proper steps when cleaning up fallen ceiling material.

Natomas Unified School District made the state's Top 100 list, but it's not good news.

Twin Rivers Unified School District board President Cortez Quinn was fined once by the state's political watchdog agency. Now he faces additional scrutiny for paying at least part of his initial fine with a donation from the teachers union.

The state of California's proposal to build two massive water diversion tunnels beneath the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta is a major undertaking by itself. But the current plans also call for rerouting and reconfiguring three state highways to handle a decade of heavy construction traffic.

It may invite criticism as public pensions draw increasing scrutiny, but the city of Folsom has become the latest in California to offer a limited number of workers enhanced retirements to save budget dollars.

Two years ago, Sacramento County owed the federal government $18 million in back taxes – money that New Jersey payroll processor Ingentra stole rather than paid on the county's behalf.

Classes keep getting bigger at Sacramento State, the teaching corps keeps getting smaller, and the time to a degree for students keeps getting longer, new figures from the university show.

For nearly 17 years, Silvia Cata cared for elderly clients in her home on a dead-end street in Sacramento's Gardenland neighborhood, a residential enclave flanked by tire shops, lube and oil joints and a check-cashing store on the corner.

Assemblyman Richard Pan is required to live in the district he represents, but he apparently is spending little time in the residence he purchased to comply with the law, a Bee investigation shows.

A watchdog panel charged by the state Legislature and courts with investigating local government in El Dorado County won't be issuing a report this year.

Sacramento County is spending $1.5 million to renovate its Community Development Department, with much of the money going to high-end furniture in its downtown Seventh Street offices.

They stood in the crisp morning air clutching Red Bulls and bearing arms: Bushmaster rifles poking from backpacks, HK pistols nestled in cases, Colt semi-automatics propped on shoulders.

More than 60 years after Sutter's Fort became part of the California parks system, you would think the city and county of Sacramento would know who the owner is.

Any way it was sliced, the numbers used by Sacramento City Unified School District to close under-enrolled schools were destined to be met with a critical eye.

Fraser West and his family are engaged in a legal battle with a multibillion-dollar company over plans to build a 278-acre rock quarry 50 feet behind his property line and construct an asphalt plant on 113 acres down the road from his ranch.

The consent form allowing UC Davis doctors to open Terri Bradley's skull and infect her with bowel bacteria was hand-delivered on a single page with a 300-word warning.

A stretch of landscaped levee where the city of Elk Grove plans to remove 140 trees and plants at a cost of about $20,000 is barely a quarter of a mile long.

An analysis from a team of California Department of Transportation experts, released Thursday after more than a year of preparation, confirmed data problems involving radiation-based tests of reinforced concrete foundations for nine bridges or other freeway structures, including the Benicia-Martinez Bridge.