Tour infamous Puente home, UFC to return: Your Sacramento weekend wrap

A busy weekend brought everything from fireworks picks and school restroom bill updates to a major lawsuit and UFC’s return announcement.

Here's what you may have missed this weekend:

• State officials confirmed Saturday that invasive golden mussels have been found in and around the Port of West Sacramento, the northernmost detection of the species to date. The freshwater mollusk, first spotted in North America in the Delta in 2024, threatens water systems by clogging pipes and altering the food web.

• The Bee’s summer interns ranked the top “Safe and Sane” fireworks for 2026, with Discount Fireworks Superstore’s “Dragon Dreamscape” taking the crown thanks to a perfect 5.00 “oooh” score from all 11 reviewers. See the full rankings of pop, crackle and boom before sales open at noon Sunday.

• California schools must have at least one all-gender restroom on each campus by July 1 under Senate Bill 760, and Sacramento City Unified has spent more than $100,000 bringing its sites into compliance, with only two elementary schools remaining. Twin Rivers Unified and Folsom Cordova Unified say all their schools already meet the requirement.

• The former home of serial killer Dorothea Puente at 1426 F St. will be featured on Preservation Sacramento’s 50th Annual Historic Home Tour on Sept. 20. Seven bodies were unearthed at the boarding house in 1988, and current owners Barbara Holmes and Tom Williams have welcomed a steady stream of visitors since buying it in 2010.

• Mia Settles-Tidwell, Sacramento State’s former chief diversity officer, spoke out about her discrimination and retaliation lawsuit against President Luke Wood and the CSU board of trustees. She says she was “shocked and bewildered” by Wood’s treatment; the university calls her claims “baseless and devoid of merit.”

• The Paperworks, a 26,000-square-foot mixed-use shopping complex and museum exhibition space at 1115 Front St., opened Friday morning in Old Sacramento. The upstairs Death by Natural Causes exhibit, in partnership with the Houston Museum of Natural Science, opens June 27 and explores poisonous plants and animals.

• UFC Fight Night will return to Sacramento on Aug. 22 at Golden 1 Center, the first such event in the city since 2019. Middleweights Anthony Hernandez and Gregory Rodrigues will headline the card, with tickets going on sale July 9.