Sacramento County Local News

Amid a Southern California heat wave, about 300 advocates for rent control — with two 10-foot “greedy landlord” puppets — rallied Thursday in downtown Los Angeles, chanting: “The rent is too damn high!”

The controversial idea of cash reparations divided even Black advocates in the legislature this year. Here’s what’s next.

The new trains are designed to be easier to use by disabled and mobility-challenged riders.

This city is lending residents e-bikes for up to three weeks and sponsoring a purchase voucher program for qualified applicants.

The striking Sacramento County criminal attorneys paused their strike on September 6 to return to negotiations with the county.

The Elk Grove News reports on the continuing strike by Sacramento County criminal attorneys.

Learn what candidates for Sacramento Mayor had to say in their September 5 debate in this CapRadio report.

Lawmakers approved two bills to allow some community colleges to provide bachelor’s degrees in nursing. That’s setting up another conflict with the California State University, which already offers these bachelor’s degrees.

A look at what it takes to successfully manage a community garden.

A City of Citrus Heights survey indicates overwhelming support for free Neighborhood Cleanup services.

CapRadio reports on an air monitoring program seeking to determine the cause of respiratory illnesses in South Sacramento.

California has allocated more than $20 billion to alleviate the state’s homelessness crisis since Gavin Newsom became governor in 2019, but there’s precious little data on how the money was spent and what effect it’s had, other than the number of unhoused people has continued to climb.

The California School Dashboard makes it hard for the public to see how schools and districts are performing over multiple years, concludes the report's lead author.

Information about how the state’s K-12 students are performing is located on several sites and is difficult to understand, a new report finds.

Inland communities with big population booms will experience the most extreme heat days under climate change projections. The combination puts more people at risk — and many cities are unprepared.

The Elk Grove News reports on the details of the recent settlement between the State of California and the City of Elk Grove over the July 2022 denial of the Oak Rose affordable housing project.

California voters passed Proposition 22 four years ago. The ballot initiative, backed by Uber, Lyft and other gig companies, promised the state’s more than 1 million gig workers new benefits, such as guaranteed minimum earnings, health care stipends, occupational accident insurance and accidental death insurance.

The Sacramento Bee explains the "involuntary servitude" measure on the November Ballot, Proposition 6.

Almost everyone in California has health insurance. That trend reflects about a decade and a half of policymaking designed to expand access to health care. The state’s average uninsured rate has dropped from nearly one in four Californians in 2009 to less than one in ten today.

The Sacramento Bee presents a guide for requesting speed bumps or other traffic calming options to increase road, bike and pedestrian safety in your neighborhood.