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The last time so much gold was pulled out of this town, the place was known as "the richest square mile on earth," a Gold Rush jewel north of California's Mother Lode.

The British-based Fresh & Easy grocery chain is making its Sacramento-area debut March 7, opening two stores with plans to open three more a week later.

Sacramento developer Angelo K. Tsakopoulos on Thursday blamed a lenders agent for the loan default on an office complex Tsakopoulos controls, saying the agent was unwilling to negotiate an extension on the debt.

Vida en el Valle, the bilingual weekly newspaper published in the Central Valley, was the winner of two President's Awards in the annual competition for community newspapers in the McClatchy chain.

A Yolo County jury on Wednesday convicted a West Sacramento resident and 25-year employee of The Sacramento Bee of workers' compensation insurance fraud.

A Sacramento Superior Court jury failed to reach a verdict Thursday on three defendants accused of murder in the shooting death of a man who prosecutors say was targeted over a $16,000 Indian casino win.

The memory of Auburn Symphony conductor Michael Goodwin will be honored Saturday when the orchestra performs a scheduled Kinderkonzert at Placer High School Auditorium, 275 Orange St.

Nominations for the Salute to Senior Service program, recognizing older adults who volunteer in their communities, continue through March 15.

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.

Local pastor Cornelius Taylor was convicted Thursday on eight counts of sexual assault on a minor, the Sacramento County District Attorney's office reported.

A thorough Sacramento police officer followed up on a good eyewitness description and netted a strong-arm robbery suspect Thursday.

In the lives of conductors, there is always one work that they desire to perform most of all.

A vacant office complex controlled by Sacramento land baron Angelo K. Tsakopoulos has defaulted on its mortgage and is facing possible foreclosure.

Wildlife is thriving on wide swaths of land in North Natomas that was cleared for development but left vacant, in some cases for years, because of the real estate bust and a building moratorium related to flood control.

Sacramento City Unified School District trustees have approved $28 million in budget cuts that call for hundreds of employee layoffs, increasing class sizes and eliminating sports and extracurricular activities.

Sutter County is known for being rice country, but nestled in the folds of the world's smallest mountain range could be the ingredients for good wine – and a budding business opportunity.

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.

Nadine Salonites, a noted opera soprano who was a Woodland kindergarten teacher and volunteer, died Jan. 25 of complications from diabetes and heart problems, her family said. She was 81.

Robert Neal-Anderson caught a break Wednesday when a jury convicted him of second-degree murder in the stabbing death of David Maxey in the victim's South Natomas apartment.

A Saturday event organized by Sacramento County Supervisor Phil Serna raised $30,000 for area nonprofit groups.

The city of Rancho Cordova has transformed a long vacant site into ultra-green affordable rentals.

Sutter Medical Center in Sacramento said it has become the second cardiac care center in the nation and the first in California to receive full atrial fibrillation certification status from the Society of Chest Pain Centers.

Brewster's Bar & Grill in downtown Galt, housed in a 19th century renovated building that once was the post office and a general store, will be closed until Monday as the business undergoes an ownership change.

Brittany Wiltz, a student at Natomas Charter School, was named the winner of Sacramento Poetry Out Loud for 2012.

The Sacramento region will receive more than $19 million in federal funds for water and flood-control projects.

Mark C. Anderson burned up hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of fine wine and then burned his bridges with the Sacramento federal judge who would sentence him for arson and other crimes.

A Yolo County judge sent convicted cop killer Marco Antonio Topete to death row Tuesday, after rejecting a defense motion for a new trial and hearing how the murder of Deputy Jose Antonio Diaz traumatized relatives and a co-worker.

Maggi Moreno lost two aunts and an uncle in an early Monday crash on Highway 50 caused by a wrong-way motorist suspected of drunken driving.

The Sacramento City Council prefers a 15-person commission to suggest overhauling the city constitution over anything Mayor Kevin Johnson has proposed.

Sacramento attorney Howard Dickstein is catching heat from U.S. Sen. John McCain over the millions of dollars Dickstein has earned representing Thunder Valley Casino and the Indian tribe that owns it.