Sacramento County Local News

Read on for details about recent progress in the Elk Grove Boulevard Library Improvement Project.

Read on for more details about Sacramento State cutting $45 million from the budget, and next steps.

The Citrus Heights Fire Department dispatched Engine 23 and its crew to assist in the ongoing wildfires in Southern California. Read on for details.

Sacramento area law enforcement and business leaders held a press conference on January 15 to announce a regional collaboration to enforce the recently passed Proposition 36. Read on for details.

Three days after immensely destructive and deadly wildfires broke out in and around Los Angeles, Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed a $322.3 billion state budget with a positive revenue forecast “based on an assumption of continued but slowing economic growth.”

In their January 14 meeting, the Sacramento City Council approved the salary for interim City Manager Leyne Milstein and agreed to keeping ormer City Manager Howard Chan on as a "special advisor." Read on to learn more.

A new bill would remove the right of California’s female transgender athletes in to participate in high school sports teams that match their gender identity.

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s ambitious plan to produce a cheap, generic insulin for the 3.2 million Californians with diabetes is behind the schedule he announced and unlikely to make it to market for several years, industry experts say.

Jennielynn Holmes stood in the middle of a make-shift evacuation center when the scope of the crisis hit her.

Key moisture measurements are only 2% to 5% of average, leaving dusty soils. And the recent swing from wet to dry is among the most extreme on record. This combination of climatic conditions crossed into a danger zone, priming much of Southern California for wind-whipped fires.

In a striking setback to reduce California’s air pollution but a win for trucking companies, state regulators have walked away from their ambitious plan to phase out diesel trucks less than a week before President-elect Donald Trump returns to the White House.

Read on to learn about the measures taken to harden and protect the lone remaining house of the neighborhoodfrom the Pacific Palisades fire in Southern California.

A presumptive case of H5N1 bird flu has been identified in a child who resides in San Francisco, the city’s Department of Public Health announced.The child had a fever and conjunctivitis but did not need to be hospitalized and has since made a full recovery, public health officials said Friday.

Federal funding for rural schools goes to 39 California counties. School districts in those communities consider the money a lifeline.

The City of Elk Grove and the Sacramento Municipal Utilities District announced a grant of $11 million from the U.S. Department of Transportation to be used to add local EV charging stations. Read on to learn more,

Official updated information from WatchDuty about the Eaton Fire in Southern California.

Official updated information from WatchDuty about the Palisades Fire in Southern California.

Fashioning a budget for a state as large and diverse as California is a fraught process under the best of circumstances, involving not only strictly financial aspects but demands from countless interest groups and the internal politics of the Capitol.

Read on to learn more about the periodic Santa Ana winds which whip Southern California every year, and how they are literally fanning the flames of the devastating fires which have so far killed over two dozen people and destroyed over 10,000 structures.

The Newsom administration on Friday is expected to release its next budget proposal. Health care advocates want the governor to fix a Medi-Cal rule that discourages seniors from getting coverage.