Sacramento News

A California couple is facing prison time after juries convicted them of luring an acquaintance to their home and strangling her to kidnap her 2-month-old boy.

Bee file, 2013. Mayor Kevin Johnson and other local officials today announced a new campaign that will lobby the state and federal governments to provide more funding to local infrastructure projects that defend cities from extreme weather.

An avant-garde classical concert at a nightclub, an opera production at the Crocker Art Museum – these are a couple of ways that the soon-to-be-merged Sacramento Opera and Sacramento Philharmonic are trying to draw in more families and a larger audience for the 2013-2014 season.

Kerry Kassis opened Slocum House in Fair Oaks Village in May 1986 and ran it for 23 years, taking it from an aspiring but underperforming restaurant to one of the great dining destinations in the region.

The tenants at the Westlake Apartments say the fire started on the deck and quickly moved to inside their home along Shoal Court.

Police in Northern California say they have arrested a 16-year-old boy on suspicion of killing an 87-year-old attorney and his wife.

A member of the "Broderick Boy" and "Northern Ryder" street gangs was found guilty in the killing of another gang member in West Sacramento, the District Attorney's Office announced Monday.

A man who stabbed and bludgeoned his mother to death nine years ago has been recommended for placement in a community group home by a state-contracted agency.

One century after its incorporation, the Capital City Motorcycle Club continues to celebrate the freedom of the open road and the joy of riding.

Several opposing groups have filed lawsuits against a broad, long-range plan to manage the ailing Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta that was adopted in May. The four suits, filed over the course of the past month by environmental groups and water users, argue the Delta Plan does not fulfill its two co-equal goals of providing a more reliable water ... (more)

A psychiatric patient has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit in Nevada accusing state officials of giving him a one-way bus ticket to Northern California, where he arrived, scared and disoriented, without money and identification in a city where he didn't know anyone and had never been.

The Sacramento County Coroner's office has released the name of the man killed when shots rang out Saturday at a South Sacramento gas station.

Aaron Cabrera drove all the way from Los Angeles to be at the Royal Peacock tattoo parlor on P Street on Saturday night.

On Saturday, June 15, 2013, at 11:31 a.m., officers responded to reports of a shooting in the 6600 block of Mack Road.

The Sacramento fire department explains why it is so important for children under 13 to wear life vests when in or on the Sacramento River.

Whenever the conversation turns to the nation's top thriller writers, the short list invariably includes New York Times best-selling author Karin Slaughter.

The pilot of a small aircraft suffered severe injuries Saturday morning when his plane crashed in a field by a rural landing strip near the town of Elverta.

In fact, 33 percent of people said their main source of guidance on money matters was from "my parents or at home," according to a recent financial literacy survey by the National Foundation for Credit Counseling.

The French Order of Arts and Letters has designated Cécile Mouette Downs – longtime heroine of the Sacramento film community – as a chevalier, or knight.

Anh Phan, 78, was last seen near Stockton Boulevard and Lemon Hill Avenue around 1:30 p.m., Sacramento police said.