• Old Sacramento to ring in 2026 with countdown and "close-up" fireworks show

  

• How Sacramento set the course for "A Charlie Brown Christmas" to become a holiday classic

  

• Democrats visit ICE facility in Broadview after court order granting access

  

• Pavement collapses on 111th Street in Mount Greenwood

  

• Wissahickon School District closer to firing principal accused of antisemitic comments

  

• How a Georgia family's "Elf on the Shelf" tradition became a holiday empire

  

• Amazon customers complain about packages stuck for weeks in Armstrong County

  

• Christmas week in Colorado begins with unusually warm weather