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California lawmakers target fentanyl as opioid overdoses surge

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California lawmakers are responding to a surge in fentanyl overdoses and deaths in their cities with a list of bills that include imposing stronger penalties for distributing the synthetic opioid and easing access to safer consumption and treatment.

Los Angeles Times

Who should receive reparations in California for slavery? Answers raise more questions

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Antoinette Harrell has spent nearly three decades of her life verifying cases of slavery in the South before and after emancipation.

Los Angeles Times

Kings at Rockets: Prediction, point spread, odds, over/under, betting picks (March 30)

Jalen Green and the Rockets are slight home underdogs (+2.5) versus Sacramento in an unpredictable game where most veterans on both teams are not expected to play.

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Cannabis comestible contra hierba para fumar: ¿en qué se diferencian y cuáles son los efectos sobre la salud?

SACRAMENTO, California— El panorama actual del cannabis comestible ha pasado de ser el estereotipo casero de "brownies de marihuana" a una industria innovadora, que empuja las papilas gustativas tanto de los fumadores como de quienes consumen marihuana por primera vez.

Tribune News Service

Edible cannabis vs smoking weed: How are they different and what are the health effects?

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Today's edible cannabis scene has evolved from your stereotypical homemade "pot brownies" into an innovative industry, pushing the tastebuds of both stoners and first-time marijuana users.

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom broadens drought order — but again stops short of mandatory urban water cutbacks

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom, acknowledging the severity of the drought, ordered California cities and other local water agencies Monday to reduce their water usage and tighten their conservation rules.

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A Sacramento woman was evicted from a city homeless shelter. She died in a tent 10 days later

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Tammy Couisan lost everything over the past four months.

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Should rich Californians get gas price, inflation relief? Newsom, Democrats weigh options

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California leaders all agree that residents need some kind of relief from inflation and soaring gasoline prices — but who should qualify? Drivers? Those in lower income brackets? All taxpayers?

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Abortion access in California: What to know about the system, costs and resources

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — It's been more than six months since Texas enacted a near-ban on abortions, and California is catching a glimpse of how such decisions, state by state, can affect its role in providing the service to people living outside the state.

Tribune News Service

Sacramento teachers strike as Minneapolis walkout continues

Thousands of teachers and other school workers have walked out in Sacramento

The Independent UK

News analysis: In California, the cost of driving has always been a political hot potato

SACRAMENTO — Few California cultural touchstones have had more staying power over the years than the state's affinity for cars and its aversion to taxes.

Los Angeles Times

Want vulnerable Californians to have healthier pregnancies? Doulas say the state must pay up

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — This was supposed to be the year that low-income Californians could hire a doula to guide them through pregnancy and advocate for them in the hospital.

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Helene Elliott: Next wave of American men give U.S. tennis fans hope

INDIAN WELLS, Calif. — Stefanos Tsitispas didn't seem all that impressed by Jenson Brooksby after the precocious 21-year-old from Sacramento had upset him in the third round of the BNP Paribas Open.

Los Angeles Times

Power shut off to homes near Yosemite. ‘Anyone with a heart knows this is wrong’

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Power was shut off to homes near Yosemite National Park on Tuesday, the latest blow to a group of homeowners who were told in December by Yosemite that they’d have to remove or surrender the mobile homes they own without compensation by March 13.

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George Skelton: California must stop taking away child support from kids and families

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — This seems counterintuitive in such a liberal state, but it's a fact: California rips off child support payments intended for moms who receive government aid.

Chicago Tribune

Chicago Bulls open a 3-game West Coast trip with a 112-103 loss to the 25-45 Sacramento Kings

The Chicago Bulls began their final West Coast trip of the season on a low note, losing 112-103 to the Sacramento Kings on Monday night at the Golden 1 Center.

Los Angeles Times

Newsom promised to address California's high gas costs. But the politics are tricky

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Just how Gov. Gavin Newsom plans to make good on his promise this week to put money "back in the pockets" of Californians stung by the sharp rise in gas prices remains murky, but suspending or lowering the state's highest-in-the-nation gas tax appears less and less likely.

Los Angeles Times

Erika D. Smith: Of course, Black people should get reparations. The question is which Black people

Jonathan and Matthew Burgess had a story — well, a truth — to tell, and they wanted to tell me at Sutter's Fort State Historic Park in Sacramento, California.

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Editorial: Domestic abusers still have access to guns. That has got to change

Seven months before a man shot and killed his three daughters and a family friend in a Sacramento church last week, a man in Kern County shot and killed his wife, two sons and a sheriff’s deputy responding to violence at their home. In July 2020, a Madera County man…

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Steph Curry wills Warriors to thrilling win over Denver Nuggets

DENVER — Thursday was a good a time as any for the Golden State Warriors to get their first win against the Nuggets. Denver arrived early Thursday morning from Sacramento on the second leg of a back-to-back.

Los Angeles Times

Facing reelection, Newsom touts the ‘California way’ and teases gas tax rebate

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom cast the state as a beacon of democracy in a turbulent world in his annual address to lawmakers Tuesday, contrasting the “California way” through its embrace of diversity and inventive solutions with the politics of division and rising “authoritarian impulses” in America.

The Guardian - US

A father used a ghost gun to kill his three daughters. It’s a sign of a growing crisis

Homemade firearms continue to proliferate despite California lawmakers’ efforts to ban them

Tribune News Service

California governor’s big promises on drug prices are slow to materialize

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — When Gov. Gavin Newsom took office in 2019, he promised to lower prescription drug costs for all Californians.

Los Angeles Times

George Skelton: California has the toughest gun laws in the U.S. That's irrelevant if they're not enforced

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — How much money are we willing to spend to seize guns from the likes of the disturbed father who shot and killed his three daughters in a church?

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Julius Randle explodes for career-high 46 in wild comeback win over Kings

Two NBA games broke out in Sacramento Thursday, both decisive blowouts.

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