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More than 300 people marched from Southside Park to the state Capitol this morning, calling on politicians to implement "common sense immigration reform."

Cloudy skies will dominate the weekend in Sacramento, but that should give way to sunny skies starting Monday.

When he had two working legs, Steve Martin didn't care much for skiing.

Tuvya Bergson-Michelson won the 2013 California Geographic Bee on Friday after a grueling five-hour contest that included more than 100 students from across the state.

The Sacramento Zoo is throwing a party for the planet.

Sacramento County airport officials said Friday they are looking into ways they can pay to keep the Sacramento Executive Airport traffic control tower open if the federal government follows through on a plan to cut tower financing.

Paul William Walden had just driven cross-country from North Carolina, looking to buy some heroin and possibly talking on a cellphone at the time he crashed his car into Harison Long-Randall and killed him last year, according to court testimony Friday.

Davis illegally imposes high sewer fees on residents to subsidize treatment of wastewater from city government facilities, a Davis group alleges in a newly amended lawsuit.

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.

A Rancho Cordova facility that serves as a transfer station for hazardous waste has been ordered to cease its waste consolidation operations following two fires and an explosion in two years.

To raise money to replace aging band instruments, Laguna Creek High School will host a recycling event from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. April 20.

Rancho Cordova-based GenCorp Inc., parent company of rocket maker Aerojet, reported a net loss of $14 million, or 24 cents a share, for its first quarter ended Feb. 28.

Sacramento area residents continue to pay off their credit card debt … albeit somewhat slowly.

Fortune Garden, the El Dorado Hills restaurant that sustained massive damage in a fire more than a year ago, will have its grand reopening today.

A Family Funday Sunday will be the centerpiece of an expanded Festival of the Arts from April 12-17 at Sacramento State.

The Sacramento State Police Department is warning of a fraud involving fictitious checks that use identifying information of the University Foundation of Sacramento State.

Elliott Ranch Elementary School in Elk Grove will be the site of a summer computer camp for fourth- through seventh-grade students.

A concrete island in front of Spataro distanced the white-linen restaurant from its environs. That changes now, as Hock Farm Craft & Provisions takes over the building at 1415 L St. in downtown Sacramento

Trustees of the Sacramento City Unified School District voted 4-2 Thursday to convert Rosa Parks Middle School to a kindergarten through eighth-grade campus to accommodate students displaced when nearby Mark Hopkins Elementary closes at the end of the school year.

It's clear that Richard Nelson still suffers deeply the loss of his daughter, who died trying to protect her 2-year-old son in a 2010 shootout at a Stockton Boulevard barbershop.

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

Stu Bryant, a popular coach in the baseball community who inspired players on teams from Little League to Sacramento City College, died March 22. He was 61.

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.

At the McGeorge School of Law's first senior financial and health safety fair Saturday, experts as well as volunteers from the school's elder law clinic will address older adults' concerns about financial abuse.

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.

The rain that made for hazardous commute-hour travel Thursday morning likely will give way to patchy fog early today.

While the nation crumpled under waves of flu viruses this year, the Sacramento region fared far better, with only a mild increase over last year's influenza rate, county officials said Thursday.

The California Highway Patrol said a fatal collision occurred on the Capital City Freeway near Arden Way during Thursday's commute.

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

Imagine making a video call with a 911 dispatcher.