Sacramento’s haunted history is more than a ghost story
It’s October in the Capital City and there’s a scarlet flair coloring sycamores and Japanese maples, ushering in a witching season for harvest moons and…
Read MoreIt’s October in the Capital City and there’s a scarlet flair coloring sycamores and Japanese maples, ushering in a witching season for harvest moons and…
Read MoreYou can glean a lot from a culture by how it remembers its dead. In our corner of California, most ghost stories involve unlucky prospectors,…
Old Town Edinburgh was once known as the murky fishbone, a medieval fossil spine that descends in a deformed slope from its castle-head to the…
In mid-September, cable news networks became fixated on the disappearance of Gabby Petito, a 22-year-old YouTuber who’d vanished somewhere in the American high west. A…
Roseville brewery to host a big event this weekend, but its bourbon bravado is generating its own excitement The gold-glinting allure of whiskey flows from…
Oakley Hall’s ‘Warlock’ remains a towering achievement in California literature Writers, like cowboys, can find themselves penned-in. They get locked in corrals of category. They…
The Black Swan epoch of 2020 saw homicide rates in California hit a 13-year high, with Sacramento police and sheriffs responding to nearly double the…
Four years after California created a legal, regulated marijuana industry that’s largely shepherded by contentious growers, its public lands continue to be decimated by criminal…
From the outside, Joseph John Deaser IV looked like the model of a reasonable gun dealer. He’d testified before the California legislature and Congress about…
No matter how many Americans have had their rights trampled through the forfeiture legal anomaly, Capital City leaders can’t get enough of the profits Law…
The waning days of the Gold Rush were overshadowed by tense journalistic standoffs around the Civil War In 1861, California’s Capital region was far from…
El Dorado County won’t say what happened to 29 dogs that were rescued The liberation of 29 dogs reportedly destined to be mauled – or…
Tale of first responder who worked in the Capital City in 2017 suggests that some supervisors ignored the department’s official goals The Sacramento Fire Department…
For investigators, it was two shocking discoveries in a 24-hour window – a pair of women who’d vanished from the quiet ranchlands east of Sacramento…
Sometimes our present woes are best understood through the pain others felt in the past For 45 years May has been the month of the…
Sheriff’s Office warns the public to be vigilant, Noied considered extremely dangerous UPDATE Patrick Lavell Noied Sheriff’s investigators have announced a suspect in the May…
T.J. Wellman-Holochwost had a wanderlust that made him want to experience the world. From the lagoons of Venice to the spires of Barcelona, the former…