Elk Grove News

Environmental groups and land stewards will join in an afternoon-long forum Sunday in Elk Grove focused on south Sacramento habitat and farmland.

The Elk Grove City Council adopted an 2009-10 budget of $203.8 million Wednesday night, an amount 20 percent below that of a year ago, City Manager Laura Gill said Thursday.

The city of Elk Grove, while better off fiscally than many jurisdictions in the region, nevertheless is girding for a long economic downturn.

Elk Grove Unified will stop its controversial practice of separating students by race for rallies designed to pump them up before they take state exams.

The Elk Grove Unified School District honored retiring trustee Brian Myers at Tuesday's board meeting.

The Sacramento County Coroner's Office has identified a couple who died after a head-on collision Saturday in Rancho Cordova.

Elk Grove Unified School District has reported its first outbreak of the H1N1 virus after three elementary school students and a teacher tested positive for what is commonly called swine flu.

Elk Grove detectives arrested a 20-year-old man after investigators said they found evidence of marijuana and LSD sales at a residence.

A grass fire Thursday afternoon consumed about 200 acres near Interstate 5 by Hood Franklin Road.

A grass fire consumed about 200 acres along Interstate 5 and Hood Franklin Road on Thursday afternoon, fire officials said.

The Elk Grove group could use donations to its Mothers to Mothers Fund, which benefits MOMS Club members facing difficult financial times.

The FBI announced Monday that aggravated assaults in Elk Grove jumped 50 percent from 2007 to 2008, a trend police attribute to an increase in domestic violence.

An Elk Grove police officer allegedly lied on his mortgage and refinance applications to obtain loans with cash-equity totaling tens of thousands of dollars, according to an affidavit in Sacramento's federal court.

The city of Elk Grove is laying off four workers at the end of this month, helping close a budget gap brought on by falling retail sales.

The Elk Grove Police Department on Wednesday released surveillance photos taken during the armed robbery Tuesday of the Walgreens at 7299 Laguna Blvd.

Gary Davis, first-term city councilman for Elk Grove, said he will formally announce his candidacy today for the 3rd Congressional District seat held by Republican Rep. Dan Lungren of Gold River.

An Elk Grove Unified School district employee has been arrested on suspicion of embezzlement, the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department said today.

Custodians in the Elk Grove Unified School District went green before it was trendy. The district started using healthier cleaners 10 years ago.

A murder case nearly 18 years old came to a conclusion Friday when a judge sentenced Roland Gallego to a 16 years-to-life term for the 1991 knifing death of the defendant's aunt in her Elk Grove home.

Army Sgt. 1st Class Bryan Hall, who was killed in Iraq, is laid to rest Thursday at Pleasant Grove Cemetery in Elk Grove after a full military service.

Before the junior prom, some girls save their sweetest anticipatory flutter for the dress, or the boy, or the tribe of friends who will celebrate beside them.

Services for Army Sgt. 1st Class Bryan Hall, who was killed in Iraq on April 9, will begin at 1 p.m. today at the First Baptist Church of Elk Grove, 8939 E. Stockton Blvd.

The bleachers in the Laguna Creek High School gym were filled earlier this week with students gazing at an outline of Africa on a big screen.

Whenever Alison Freeseha rumbled up the road driving a dump truck, her 5-foot-4 frame could barely be detected in the giant cab.

A shooting in Elk Grove left a woman dead and three men wounded early Sunday, following what police said was a fight between partygoers in a residential neighborhood.

The body of an Elk Grove soldier who was recently killed in Iraq will be returned today via a motorcade from Executive Airport, 6151 Freeport Blvd., officials said.

The body of an Elk Grove soldier who was recently killed in Iraq will be returned Sunday via a motorcade from Executive Airport, 6151 Freeport Blvd., to Elk Grove, officials said.

Adding to the uncertainty at Elk Grove's long-delayed regional shopping mall, the mall's developer filed for bankruptcy protection Thursday.

DNA evidence has led to the arrest of a Sacramento man in an Oct. 31 "takeover" bank robbery in Elk Grove, police said today.

Elk Grove agencies are planning to turn tennis shoes into tennis courts.

The Elk Grove Police Department is asking for the public's help in finding a 70-year-old at-risk adult.

Elk Grove police are looking for a suspect who allegedly exposed himself Monday to a juvenile walking home from Monterey Trails High School, according to a police report.

The porch of the mint-green and brick ranch house on Lark Street in Elk Grove was beginning to fill with potted plants, flowers and cards Monday morning as word spread of the death of Staff Sgt. Bryan E. Hall, 32, who was killed in a suicide attack in Iraq on Friday.

Elk Grove resident Bryan Edward Hall, a U.S. Army staff sergeant, was among five American soldiers killed Friday in Iraq when a suicide bomber in a truck attacked a Mosul police station, military officials said Sunday.

The Elk Grove Automall, coming off a rough 2008 that saw the exit of its Ford and Saturn dealerships, is experiencing a rebound in 2009.

Contractors still say they're owed millions by the developer of Elk Grove's stalled Promenade shopping mall, but the developer is whittling down the debt it owes the city.

Representatives from area colleges, universities, vocational schools and professional organizations will be at Elk Grove High School, 9800 Elk Grove Florin Road, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. Thursday for its annual College Career Fair.

Judith Labarbera, arrested Wednesday in Elk Grove for shoplifting, should know the criminal justice system really well, according to a police report.

Things went so bad for Christopher Garcia that even his grandmother wanted to press charges against him, according to an Elk Grove police report.

A dispute over missing property between two Elk Grove men escalated into violence, leaving one man beaten and the other arrested, according to a police summary.

The arrests took a helicopter, K-9 units and several other officers, but Elk Grove police finally arrested four suspect car thieves who tried to flee through a residential area.

Elk Grove police said officer arrested two Sacramento men on suspicion of violating a number of weapons and related laws after a loud party was shut down.

The theme was bad driving earlier this week as Elk Grove police busted a suspected car thief and a juvenile driving without a license but with illegal drugs, police records show.

Sacramento's latest environmental watchdog is, it turns out, your local plumber.

Elk Grove Police Department officers have arrested two juvenile burglary suspects, thanks to a witness who decided to get involved, according to a watch summary.

It isn't easy being a school safety patrol officer.

An 18-year-old Laguna Creek High School student was arrested this morning for bringing a gun on campus, according to authorities.

The Elk Grove Auto Mall is one of 32 North American sites chosen to sell the Fisker Karma sedan, a luxury plug-in hybrid.

Watch Elk Grove Mayor Pat Hume's State of the City address on a live Webcast at 7 tonight.

Elk Grove police arrested a 20-year-old Sacramento man whose actions delayed a train and closed two major roads.