By Jane Braxton Little -
Published: Friday, July 10 2009 - 12:00 am
SUSANVILLE An octogenarian water tunnel that has not deliberately carried water for 74 years is facing federal scrutiny to determine how and whether it should operate in the future.
By Robert Lewis -
Published: Thursday, July 9 2009 - 12:00 am
For the first time since the taxpayers' revolt of the 1970s, the total assessed value of properties is dropping in Sacramento and across California.
By Loretta Kalb -
Updated: Thursday, July 9 2009 - 9:11 am
The Wilton Miwok Rancheria, fresh from winning federal tribal recognition, has tripped alarms among Sacramento County and Elk Grove officials about effects on local communities if the tribe eventually opens a casino.
By Andy Furillo -
Published: Thursday, July 9 2009 - 12:00 am
A witness in the murder trial of the man convicted of shooting and killing a UC Berkeley scholarship student pleaded no contest Wednesday to perjury charges.
By Marissa Lang -
Published: Thursday, July 9 2009 - 12:00 am
Excited laughter and frenetic play among more than 200 children in Rancho Cordova's White Rock Park paused just long enough for the children to form a crooked, single-file line.
By Carrie Peyton Dahlberg -
Published: Thursday, July 9 2009 - 12:00 am
A class on daily life in Japan has become a lesson in life under quarantine for 20 students from UC Davis and other California colleges who are confined to a Japanese dorm because of swine flu.
Published: Thursday, July 9 2009 - 12:00 am
A 56-year-old Yreka man drowned Tuesday after falling from the Klamathon Bridge and into the Klamath River near Hornbrook, a Siskiyou County Sheriff's Department spokeswoman said.
Published: Thursday, July 9 2009 - 12:00 am
Authors, artists and a local winery will join forces to raise funds Sunday for the El Dorado County-based American Mustang Foundation.
Published: Thursday, July 9 2009 - 12:00 am
A new tent city populated by about 100 homeless people along a Sacramento street has prompted a charity agency to propose that the city allow it to lease land to establish a legal place for those people and others to stay.
Published: Thursday, July 9 2009 - 12:00 am
In need of help: Teach Peace Foundation, a nonprofit group in Davis that seeks to educate children and adults about peaceful solutions to problems and issues around the world.
Published: Thursday, July 9 2009 - 12:00 am
Opponents of a planned $1.5 billion, 600-mile electrical transmission line across Northern California vowed Wednesday to keep fighting even after the plan suffered possibly a fatal blow last week when its largest partner pulled its support.
By Loretta Kalb -
Published: Wednesday, July 8 2009 - 12:00 am
An education summit, a proposed external audit of city finances and a sister-city relationship with Tel Aviv were on tap Tuesday in Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson's weekly news meeting.
By Kim Minugh -
Published: Wednesday, July 8 2009 - 12:00 am
Two Folsom police officers who shot and killed a 23-year-old man in his family's home Easter Sunday did so lawfully and will not be prosecuted, the Sacramento County District Attorney's Office said Tuesday.
By Denny Walsh -
Published: Wednesday, July 8 2009 - 12:00 am
A federal appellate court on Tuesday gave new life to the lawsuit of a former UC Davis football player who sustained severe eye injury from a projectile fired by university police.
Published: Wednesday, July 8 2009 - 12:00 am
The Auburn Police Officers' Association, the city of Auburn and Auburn Police Department officials have reached an agreement allowing union members to return to a shift schedule based on members' seniority and bidding preferences, according to a statement from the union's lawyer.
Published: Wednesday, July 8 2009 - 12:00 am
Park rangers are hosting a Volunteer Trail Day Friday to help construct a portion of the new Shasta Trinity Trail within Whiskeytown National Recreation Area.
Published: Wednesday, July 8 2009 - 12:00 am
Want to honor a fellow citizen and provide a good thrill at the same time?
Published: Wednesday, July 8 2009 - 12:00 am
Nevada County has its first case of swine flu, and the patient is quickly recovering.
By Marissa Lang -
Published: Wednesday, July 8 2009 - 12:00 am
Cancer patients unable to afford the latest, and perhaps more effective, forms of oral chemotherapy might have to wait only a few more months for relief.