Newsom sending additional California National Guard troops to border in fentanyl fight
Governor Gavin Newsom is stepping up the state's war on Fentanyl by sending additional California National Guard troops to the California-Mexico border.
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Governor Gavin Newsom is stepping up the state's war on Fentanyl by sending additional California National Guard troops to the California-Mexico border.
On Thursday, Newsom announced via a written statement that he is increasing the deployment of California National Guard service members by approximately 40 to 60 soldiers at the four U.S. ports of entry along the border to help with the detection of illegal drugs, including fentanyl. This is a move that builds on the state's billion-dollar investment to tackle the fentanyl and opioid crisis, the governor's office says.
California state lawmakers are considering a plan to cap the cost at $10 or less.
They say they’re fed up by the lack of action by the state legislature, so they’re planning on taking their effort straight to voters.
Amid the ongoing fentanyl crisis, the California legislature is considering an East Bay lawmaker's proposal to cap the cost of overdose-reversing drug naloxone to $10 or less.
San Francisco city officials said more than 100 kilos of narcotics were seized and over 300 suspected drug dealers were arrested in the past three months in the Tenderloin and South of Market, as part of an ongoing drug crackdown.
A group of novel synthetic opioids emerging in illicit drugs in the United States may be more powerful than fentanyl, 1,000 times more potent than morphine, and may even require more doses of the medication naloxone to reverse an overdose, a new study suggests.
The defense attorney for the first fentanyl murder charge in Placer County is not eligible to practice law.
As students head back to the classroom across the Sacramento region, there’s one conversation parents should have to keep children safe.
The drug epidemic has become deadlier than ever in the United States in recent years, and a new poll from KFF captures the significant toll that substance use has had on families nationwide.
A longtime resident of San Francisco's Tenderloin District has made it his mission to document life in the beleaguered neighborhood, in the hope that police and city officials can gain a better understanding of what people living there face on a daily basis.
The Sacramento County Sheriff's Office says they were called Wednesday night to an apartment on Elkhorn Boulevard and Walerga Road in the North Highlands area.
A nine-month-old baby is being treated in the hospital for fentanyl overdose, according to Sacramento County Sheriff's Office.
A person suspected of giving fentanyl to a woman who fatally overdosed in Folsom has been arrested and is facing homicide charges.
An Elk Grove man accused of poisoning his estrange wife with a deadly drug had his first court appearance Friday.
Detectives allege that the man used fentanyl to poison his wife in January.
An Elk Grove man, Glennis Smith, is accused of killing his estranged wife with fentanyl. He allegedly fed her with food laced with the drug twice. He's also accused of setting their travel trailer on fire to commit insurance fraud. He appears in court Friday at 3 p.m.
An Elk Grove man will face a judge or the first time since being charged for what investigators say is the murder of his wife by allegedly poisoning her with fentanyl.
A man has been arrested for killing his wife by putting fentanyl in her food, according to Elk Grove Police Department.
The incident occurred January 12, 2023 when Glennis Smith called 911 and reported that his wife was unconscious and not breathing.
A man has been arrested for killing his wife by putting fentanyl in her food, according to Elk Grove Police Department.
Investigations are underway in North Sacramento after two deadly fentanyl overdoses in one day – including one that killed a 16-year-old boy.
A stop of a car in Rocklin on equipment violations led to the arrest of three people and the seizure of a large amount of fentanyl over the weekend.
Leandro De Niro Rodriguez died after ingesting an oxycodone pill laced with fentanyl, officials said.
The baby ingested enough fentanyl to kill 10 adults, authorities said.
