SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday announced that, beginning May 1, the state’s low-income health insurance would extend full coverage to all qualifying people who are 50 or older, regardless of immigration status. The Medi-Cal…
Sierra Club asks Sacramento County to move homeless, citing tripling of American River fires
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The Sierra Club’s Sacramento chapter is asking city and county officials to move hundreds of homeless residents along the American River Parkway into shelters and safe ground spaces, citing an increase in wildfires it says are ofte…
Gilroy Garlic Festival canceled indefinitely, marking an end to a California summer tradition
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The Gilroy Garlic Festival Association announced Thursday it will no longer be hosting its annual food festival that celebrates the locally grown crop, putting an end to the 42-year-old summer tradition. The organization cited “lin…
California is swimming in tax revenue. Sacramento mayor wants to use more for homelessness
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Two years ago, Owen Newman Jr. was sleeping outdoors and bouncing around North Highlands, Del Paso Heights and south Sacramento. Today he attends American River College, is receiving mental health services, and lives in a new studi…
Sherri Papini’s husband files for divorce after she pleads guilty to hoax
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Keith Papini, who loyally stood by his wife’s side for six years as Sherri Papini maintained she had been kidnapped, filed for divorce Wednesday, two days after she pleaded guilty to charges that the whole thing was a hoax. Online …
Sherri Papini pleads guilty in faked kidnapping, awaits sentencing in Sacramento court
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — An emotional Sherri Papini formally admitted Monday that she made up her 2016 “kidnapping” from Redding, pleading guilty in federal court in Sacramento to a count of making false statements to a federal agent and mail fraud, part o…