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Tenants housed at the park use leftover pandemic trailers. This winter’s unusually cold, windy and rainy weather has created big challenges for Sacramento’s unhoused population. Rising water levels at the Sacramento and American rivers have flooded many traditional locations used by unhoused campers. Constant rain has rendered the ground sopping wet everywhere, making it difficult to keep possessions dry.

Sacramento’s Miller Park becomes a safe ground for those experiencing homelessness

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Re: “Money, Snapchat and implied malice: Why a fentanyl dealer was charged with murder as Placer’s deaths soared by 450%” by Scott Thomas Anderson (Crime beat, Feb. 28) Good on Placer County law enforcement for taking a creative approach to hang a murder rap around Schewe’s neck. Takes guts, but implied malice just might work in this case because Schewe’s attitude towards his victims was so despicable.

Letters: Everything sucks everywhere all at once

Sacramento’s Japanese American community gathered in excitement as the “Uprooted: An American Story” exhibit was opened in the California Museum on a recent Saturday. Museum faculty and exhibit contributors said this special exhibit embodies forgiveness, while not forgetting the impact that Japanese incarceration camps had in the region during World War II.

‘Uprooted’ exhibit opens in Sacramento, commemorating the darkest moment – and the tale of survival – for Californians of Japanese descent

San Francisco, CA

Across the street from one another in San Francisco, David Baker Architects created two housing complexes that are indistinguishable — at least from exterior view. One is 388 Fulton, with its units commanding up to $1 million each. The other is Richardson Apartments, providing supportive housing to people formerly experiencing homelessness, and demonstrating how the firm has rethought housing for people with low incomes, according to the firm’s new book, “9 Ways to Make Housing for People.”

Expert architects present new book in Sacramento on how to build better affordable housing

This story is co-published with The Sacramento Observer, a newspaper with more than 58 years of bringing public service journalism to the Capital City. Dozens of local Black men in positions of leadership answered the call of the 100 Black Men organization Saturday to attend its 33rd annual youth and parents conference at John H. Still High School in South Sacramento.

‘What they see is what they’ll be’ – prominent local Black men attend parent and youth conference

Looking for the ultimate tour package that will please from beginning to end? Look no further: Queensrÿche’s ‘The Digital Noise Alliance’ tour will be making its way around the country and descending into the Sacramento Valley with some big support acts in tow. Ex-Megadeth guitarist Marty Friedman will be presenting his solo material as part of the show.

Trauma is on the menu for some heavy-handed hard rock and metal at Sacramento’s Ace of Spades on March 16.

When Jesus Lopez returned to Sacramento after attending San Francisco State University, going to work at his family’s carniceria, he noticed something about the historic corridor it sits on, Franklin Boulevard. “When I came back, I feel like there’s definitely an effort to get more exposure,” Lopez said....

The past and future of Franklin Boulevard

Woodland, CA

Patrick Redmond has some questions to ask before pouring a glass of whiskey. That is, if he’s guiding a person through the generational art and tingling experience of distilled wizardry off the barley. Redmond has a passion for explaining “the Angels’ share,” and he chases it behind an ornate...

From its gleaming whiskey vault to the area’s biggest Celtic party, Father Paddy’s Pub in Woodland is a growing destination

Florida State

It was Irishpalooza and Harlow’s dark curtain was lit green as the jaunty sounds of a tin whistle cut the air. The players of Stout Rebellion were striking up their rendition of “South Australia.”. As the Pogues classic rang out, the band’s percussionist and “minister of fun,” Linda...

Stout Rebellion keeps bringing the Irish musical bravado, and fun, to the Capital region

The year 2020 was a shocking one for Sacramento County as its neighborhoods endured the worst spike in gun-related homicides the region had witnessed in a decade. Now, nearly three years later, prosecutors at the Sacramento District Attorney’s Office are still bringing some shooters responsible for that devastation to justice. The last few weeks at Superior Court have been especially busy on this front.

Sacramento’s gang and homicide prosecutors close out the winter with multiple convictions

California State

Law now mandates the first statewide study of farmworker housing conditions, needs and solutions. When Tonia Ochoa, an agricultural worker in Woodland, arrived in the United States from Colima, Mexico with her two children, she took the first apartment she could find. The building was old, the living conditions were...

After Woodland leads the way, region looks to build more year-round affordable housing for farmworkers

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For those lucky enough to have caught the metal legends Death in a live setting, no introduction to the band’s players is needed; and while its founder, Chuck Schuldiner, passed away from pneumonia and brain tumor complications nearly 22 years ago, his importance in the underground metal scene cannot be understated.

Supergroup tribute act, Death To All, gathers March 6 to pay homage to Death’s late bandleader at Goldfield Trading Post in Roseville

Sacramento County, CA

Carson Schewe held to answer for selling lethal dose even after two people he cared for died. On a late winter afternoon, Kade Webb walked into a Safeway in East Roseville, began charging his cell phone at its Starbucks and then made two trips to its nearby restroom. On the 20-year-old’s second time through the bathroom doors, he started dying in one of the toilet stalls. It would be five hours before anyone realized.

Money, Snapchat and implied malice: Why a fentanyl dealer was charged with murder as Placer’s deaths soared by 450%

Kathy Kasic’s new ‘Lake at the Bottom of the World’ premiers today on Amazon, iTunes. Veteran documentarian Kathy Kasic has found a way to balance teaching at Sacramento State University with answering the call of the wild again – this time following a team of scientists to perhaps the most-desolate and unforgiving part of the globe.

Sac State film professor debuts documentary on exploring environmental mysteries below Antarctica

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Housing advocate Diane Luther says Sacramento region has land on which to build — what it needs is permanent funding

Diane Luther has an extensive background in affordable housing policy and development in Sacramento and Oregon. That includes over two decades of experience in both nonprofit...

Housing advocate Diane Luther says Sacramento region has land on which to build — what it needs is permanent funding

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