Sacramento’s mayor said that the U.S. Supreme Court ruling to uphold the power of governments to impose civil punishment for camping outside would not change the city’s “balanced, compassionate approach” toward homeless people. However, the city and county adopted ordinances in 2022 that allow officers to move and fine people even if no shelter beds […]
Sacramento has roughly 3,000 fewer homeless people on its streets and in its shelters than it did two years ago, a new report has found. There are now an estimated 6,615 homeless people living in Sacramento, a steep 29% decrease from the 9,278 people volunteers counted during the preceding survey in 2022. Elected officials are […]
Sacramento’s Southside Park Pool will get the money it needs to reopen after sitting empty for the last two summers. On Tuesday, Sacramento City Council approved a roughly $600,000 contract to repair the community pool at 2107 Sixth St. under Adams Pool Specialties. Construction starts in June and staff will “work diligently to ensure the […]
A century-old fixture in Sacramento’s River District will soon be no more. Work is underway to demolish the City Incinerator, a recognizable landmark amid the drab industrial buildings making up the district. A face-lift for the area has been underway in recent years as development along Richards Boulevard and areas around the Railyards grow. New […]
How is it possible that in one year, the city of Sacramento gave its top executive 64 weeks of paid leave that he could cash out whenever he wanted? The Sacramento City Council did this for City Manager Howard Chan with little public discussion or pushback from duly elected council members. They did this while […]
The former president and chief executive officer of Goodwill Industries of Sacramento Valley & Northern Nevada accused of diverting $1.4 million from the charity now faces additional federal charges alleging he embezzled money from two other nonprofit organizations in California. On Thursday, a federal grand jury returned a 16-count superseding indictment against Richard Alan Abrusci, […]
Aaron Ward, a man so generous that he once gave a cigarette to a stranger when two cigarettes were just about all he owned, was hit by a car and killed in south Sacramento Jan. 26. He was 40. The fatal Meadowview crash occurred shortly after 6 p.m. at the intersection of Florin Road and […]
“Putin = killer” read a large banner as dozens of Russian immigrants honored the memory of Alexei Navalny near the Tower Bridge in downtown Sacramento on Tuesday night. Navalny died earlier this month in a remote Arctic penal colony. His funeral will take place on Friday in Moscow, the Associated Press reports. The Sacramento region […]
(FOX40.COM) — With another year in the books for the Sacramento region it is time to look back at the rather history-making year for Northern California. Unpredictable and Intense Weather As Sacramento said goodbye to another drought year in 2022 and looked forward to a more productive weather year in 2023, Mother Nature was gearing […]