Sacramento County News

Click Here to listen to the report. Sacramento County isn't opening any cooling centers right now, but county offiicals are offering recommendations to you from becoming a victim of the extreme heat.

At least three shots were fired during a Saturday night melee in the 5200 block of Verner Avenue in Foothill Farms, the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department reports.

Wildfire smoke combined with baking temperatures in the triple digits will create extremely poor air quality in the Sacramento region for several days.

For Bill Babbitt, a black man, the question comes down to this: Why did Sacramento County condemn his brother Manny to death for killing a white woman but sentence his cousin Butchie's white killer to a year in ...

A Sacramento man suspected of being the "straw hat bandit" has been charged in seven bank robberies in Sacramento County and one in San Joaquin County, federal authorities said.

The second suspect in last month's robbery-related homicide of William "Billy" Deer of south Sacramento has been identified as Frank Abella, who is in custody and will be tried as an adult, authorities said ...

Convicted child molester David John Sprong Jr. has been sentenced to 26 years and four months in state prison for five counts of lewd and lascivious conduct with a minor under age 14, District Attorney Jan ...

Not only no fireworks allowed for Independence Day, but campfires as well are either disallowed completely or are severely restricted until further notice on federally owned public lands in Sacramento and El ...

A French company that makes helicopter engines has settled a civil lawsuit three years after the fatal crash of a Sacramento County Sheriff's Department chopper.

A 2-year-old boy was discovered alive inside a Sacramento home Thursday with the remains of his mother, who authorities think may have been dead for nearly a week, according to Sacramento police.

Sacramento County animal control officers are putting extra patrols into the area around Tempo Park, along the Citrus Heights-Orangevale border, looking for a stray dog that mauled a woman and her much smaller ...

Brisbane, June 29: In what can be described as a 'miracle', a two-year-old boy survived alongside the body of his mother who had apparently been dead for at least six days - on cat food.

California Highway Patrol Academy cadets worked Saturday to make a difference in the lives of families experiencing homelessness.

The parents of a woman who died, leaving her toddler alone for almost six days, thanked Sacramento County Child Protective Services Friday in a letter.

Sacramento police have found a 2-year-old boy alive nearly a week after his mother died leaving him alone at home.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday discouraged California residents from buying and lighting off fireworks over the Independence Day holiday, in an effort to prevent more wildfires.

A man has been arrested on suspicion of killing his girlfriend's 3-year-old daughter, police said Wednesday.

Sacramento County has been awarded more than $400,000 in a settlement with Safeway Inc.

It's one thing to see a crime in progress. It's another thing if you're the sheriff of a major California county and it's happening right in front of you -- right outside your office.

Same-sex couples lined up Tuesday in Sacramento and elsewhere in the state for the chance to marry, but opponents of such unions have not given up their fight.