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A news crew getting ready to report from the scene of a crash on westbound Interstate 80 in Sacramento County watched as several vehicles crashed while the cameras were rolling.
California's unemployment rate continues its steady decline, reaching 8 percent in February.
With two State Senators taking leaves of absence, California Democrats have had to bid farewell to their prized supermajority in Sacramento. But what does that mean? Probably just business as usual.
A state senator on Thursday proposed repealing Proposition 227, the 16-year-old law that banned most bilingual education in public schools.
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A Sacramento area man wanted on outstanding warrants was tackled by a police officer while attempting to escape on a bicycle.
The Solano County Sheriff's Office has identified the Sacramento man who was shot by a California Highway Patrol officer in Dixon Monday evening as 42-year-old Webster Lee.
Sacramento authorities have arrested a 32-year-old woman on suspicion of fatally shooting an apparent stranger on a light-rail train.
A robust economic recovery and surging revenue propelled by voter-approved tax increases has sent California's general fund spending to a record high, but Gov. Jerry Brown is pledging a somber approach to the windfall.
The Corti Brothers store in Sacramento comes up with the most unusual combination of goodies from all over the world.
State Sen. Ron Calderon is striking back at the FBI claiming, in a file to the federal government, that the bureau purposely leaked the affidavit that he took $88,000 in bribes because he refused to take part in a federal sting operation targeting President Pro Tem Derrell Steinberg and Sen. Kevin de León.
A video obtained by KPIX 5 shows a Northern California teenager who was interrogated by authorities admitting to a crime he didn't commit. Experts said teen suspects are more likely to give false confessions.
State capitol watchers think the allegations of bribery and corruption against State Senator Ron Calderon could be problematic for other Democrats in the Legislature in next year's elections.
A federal immigration officer was shot and three local police officers were wounded Friday during a violent confrontation with a suspect in a Sacramento suburb.
California's governor has vetoed a bill that would have allowed some sex abuse victims who are now barred by the statute of limitations to file lawsuits against private institutions who employed their abuser.
School buses in two Sacramento area districts are going high-tech.
CA Dem. party communications chair Allan Brauer tweeted Amanda Carpenter, a speechwriter for Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, "May your children all die from debilitating, painful and incurable diseases."
The former home of Sacramento serial killer Dorothea Puente has become a tourist destination, with visitors touring the dining room where she drugged her victims and the yard where she buried them.
Supporters of a California ballot measure that softened the nation's toughest three-strikes law say some 1,000 prisoners have had their life terms significantly reduced and are out of prison.
State lawmakers will take their annual recess in less than two weeks, at the end of the work day Sept. 13. And, with that date looming, the push was on in Sacramento to deal with hundreds of pending bills.
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A magnitude-3.6 earthquake struck rural Northern California but no damage or injuries were reported.
California water officials are proposing changes to a multibillion dollar plan involving two water diversion tunnels for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.
The rights of California sperm donors were put into law 20 years ago. Now a Bay Area state legislator is involved in revising those rules with a new bill to be presented in Sacramento on Tuesday.
A California political watchdog agency says an immigrant rights group didn't violate lobbying laws, contrary to allegations from a company owned by the world's richest man, Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim.
