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Amid fight with oil industry, Newsom makes a last-minute pitch to harden California's climate goals

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom this week urged California lawmakers to harden the state's climate and energy goals, releasing a five-point legislative plan that promises to intensify the governor's clash with the state's powerful, billion-dollar oil industry.

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Sacramento teacher aligned with antifa received 3 years of pay to resign

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — After facing a nationwide backlash, the Natomas Unified School District paid a teacher three years’ salary to resign after he was secretly recorded professing his allegiance to antifa and saying it was his goal to turn his students into “revolutionaries,” records show.

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California just banned marketing of guns to minors. Hunters’ groups are challenging in court

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill in June banning the marketing of guns to minors in California — and felt so strongly that he issued a video of himself holding an AR-15 and standing in front of an advertisement for a youth weapon.

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2 Paso Robles wineries are among the best new wineries in the nation, USA Today says

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Two Paso Robles wineries are among the best new wineries in the nation, according to USA Today.

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In California, abortion could become a constitutional right. So could birth control

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Californians will decide in November whether to lock the right to abortion into the state constitution.

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Anita Chabria: These families are flaming the ACLU as California debates mental health care

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Bob Britton doesn't look like the kind of guy to be cursing out the American Civil Liberties Union, but there he was outside the state Capitol this week, offering up some choice four-letter words for the civil rights organization.

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Bill Russell’s worst NBA moments came during his short stint with the Sacramento Kings

The worst chapter of Bill Russell’s otherwise charmed basketball life played out in Sacramento.

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Commentary: Monkeypox is not the next COVID. But it’s spreading from the same failures

The recent discovery by Stanford scientists that wastewater in Palo Alto, Sacramento and other cities in the Bay Area contains monkeypox DNA means that the outbreak has gained traction in California, where Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a monkeypox emergency on Monday.

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Wildfire evacuation orders relaxed after rain falls on Northern California’s McKinney Fire

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — McKinney fire evacuation orders in Yreka and Hawkinsville were reduced to warnings Wednesday afternoon, allowing residents to go home after rain dampened the blaze Tuesday evening.

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Nancy Pelosi’s husband pleads not guilty to misdemeanor charges after DUI arrest

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Paul Pelosi, husband of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, pleaded not guilty Wednesday to misdemeanor charges two months after a vehicle collision in Napa County.

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Video shows Sacramento police shoot homeless man advancing with hands under a blanket

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — New video released by Sacramento police shows officers were confused by a homeless man who concealed his hands during a warrant search before an officer shot shot him in the River District.

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COVID-19 surge continues slow decline in California

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Coronavirus activity is gradually declining in California after having surged from about the beginning of April through mid-July, state health data show.

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A Black boy was tackled by officers at California State Fair. His family alleges racism

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A mother demanded answers Monday after she says her 11-year-old son was chased, tackled and bloodied by California State Fair officers during the fair’s Kids Day. The incident on Tuesday, July 19, brings up fresh allegations of racism and excessive force from officers.

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A California union president sent $25 gift cards to members. An uproar and reprimand followed

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Five months ago, members of AFSCME Local 2620, the union representing therapists and social workers in California state government, received preloaded $25 debit cards in the mail.

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‘Incredibly prejudicial’: Why Sacramento courts have caged cells, and why that’ll change

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The steel-bar cells inside the courtrooms of Sacramento County Main Jail’s Patino Justice Center and Gordon Schaber Courthouse are some of the busiest spaces in a bustling Sacramento Superior Court. The cells are as much a part of the courtrooms as the judge’s bench or jurors’ box.

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Why a Sacramento-area restaurant owner brought in a priest to talk to his workers

Last November, a few weeks after the U.S. Department of Labor had notified owners of Taqueria Garibaldi restaurants in the Sacramento area that it had evidence of overtime and record-keeping violations, one of the chain’s owners showed up at the Howe Avenue eatery with a priest, the government says.

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Did Russia provide funding and support for booster of California secession movement?

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — In February 2018, as organizers of the so-called “CalExit” campaign to have California secede from the union and form its own country, a Russian national named Aleksandr Ionov sent electronic messages to a secession supporter, court documents say. Ionov offered funding for a protest that would have…

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom declares state of emergency due to monkeypox outbreak

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday declared a state of emergency in California due to the spread of the monkeypox virus in order to "bolster the state's vaccination efforts."

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What’s Next In The NBA For Utah State’s Neemias Queta?

Neemias Queta is gearing up for his second season in the NBA and could be primed for something big. The 7-footer from Portugal played three years at Utah State before he was drafted by the Sacramento Kings in 2021. In his debut season in the ...

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A Major League Soccer 'Cupset' as Sacramento Republic advances to U.S. Open Cup Final

Sacramento continues its dream run as the first lower-division soccer team to get to the final since 2008 - with a chance to become the first non-MLS champion since 1999.

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After decades of failure, California dusts off controversial Delta tunnel water project

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Here we go again.

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Sacramento Kings announce multiyear partnership with Grammy Award-winning rapper 50 Cent

Grammy Award-winning musician and entrepreneur Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson sat courtside with Kings owner Vivek Ranadive during a Las Vegas Summer League game earlier this month. Apparently, they had business to discuss.

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California’s COVID-19 numbers show some improvement. Has the latest surge hit a peak?

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California’s COVID-19 numbers are showing early signs of improvement, after the state’s case and hospital rates climbed steadily from early April through mid-July, though some regions of the state are faring better than others.

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Alaska Airlines launches digital bag tag program to fast-track airport check-in

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Those flying Alaska Airlines this fall may get the chance to fast-track their way through luggage check-in with the company’s new electronic bag tag program.

Los Angeles Times

California private school and staffers indicted in death of 13-year-old autistic boy

A now-shuttered Sacramento-area private school for special needs students and three of its former employees have been indicted in connection with the 2018 death of a 13-year-old autistic boy, who was held in a face-down restraint for nearly two hours, authorities said.

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