California Assemblywoman Shannon Grove (R-Bakersfield) is firing back against attacks suggesting she told a pro-life group that California’s drought is the result of abortion, a claim she says she never made. Grove spoke at the June 1 California ProLife Council
Both houses of the California legislature have agreed to a budget deal to forward to Governor Jerry Brown by the June 15 deadline. The ball is now Governor Brown’s court to use his line-item-veto to decide how much he wants to protect taxpayers from irresponsible spending.
Democrats in the California State Assembly passed a bill this week that would increase the filing fees for ballot initiatives (or referenda) from $200 to $8,000, thus excluding most ordinary citizens from filing a petition and leaving the field open for unions and corporations, according to Capital Public Radio.
Sacramento commuters got an unexpected and unwelcome surprise during their Memorial Day weekend when a major commuter highway was shut down for nearly half an hour as several cars decided to put on a “sideshow.”
Approximately a dozen pro-Palestinian protesters held up flags and used drums, megaphones and other loud instruments to protest against the state of Israel outside a celebration of Jerusalem Day in Sacramento’s Raley Field. A similar celebration in Los Angeles proceeded peacefully and without disruption.
Former NBA basketball player and current Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson is being accused of sexual harassment by a city employee who had previously worked as an aide in the Sacramento city manager’s office. The alleged harassment reportedly took place over the course of seven months.
In Sacramento, one man has an idea of how to keep lawns green during the drought, and he’s selling that idea to those wanting to restore their verdant lawns; paint the grass green.
Moms fighting vaccine mandate bill SB277 in the California legislature may have found an ally with the state’s branch of the ACLU given that both question its constitutionality. Moms, some with children, journeyed again to Sacramento on Wednesday to protest the bill
On Saturday, an Easter Egg Hunt in Sacramento that was attempting to become the world’s largest prompted parents to push other children aside as they maneuvered to grab the hidden eggs and prizes for their own children.
Animal control is hunting down the culprit behind 13 recent incidents of animal mutilation. The incidents are growing bolder in nature with the most recent, a bowl of dead bird heads topped with a 2-foot machete, provoking concern over the community’s safety.
In a little-noticed move this week, California State Assembly Minority Leader Kristin Olsen, completed a purge of “conservative” policy staffers. The dramatic reversal—in both function and ideology of the Assembly Republican Caucus—mirrors the California GOP’s leftward shift, which has eschewed social conservatives as a “fringe” element.
Two Sacramento-area schools are preparing to test 200 children for tuberculosis (TB) next week after it was discovered that two kids tested positive for the infectious disease and may have exposed others. Several students have also been infected with whooping cough (pertussis) in Salinas.
“I had to do it,” said Robert Dixon after tearing down symbols of hate from the home of one of his Sacramento neighbors. “As an American, I just had to do it.”
Community leaders and lawmakers will join Sacramento’s Jewish community on Monday afternoon on the State Capitol’s steps to rally against antisemitism in California. The rally coincides with a proposed law that would require all student government bodies in California to provide and take part in mandatory training in discrimination and civil rights.
By a vote of 861 to 293, the Log Cabin Republicans, a group representing lesbian, bisexual, gay, and trangender (LGBT) Republicans, were approved as a charter organization of the California Republican Party Sunday at the close of the weekend convention in Sacramento.
An American flag using swastikas instead of stars, and Israeli flags with swastikas instead of Stars of David, are flying outside the home of a man living in Sacramento’s River Park neighborhood. Despite protests from neighbors, the man has refused to remove them.
German engineering company Siemens is assembling a 50-foot, life-size model of California’s as-yet-unbuilt high-speed train on the steps of the state Capitol in Sacramento.
SACRAMENTO, California — Breitbart California marked its first year on the statewide media and political scene with a happy hour across the street from the State Capitol on Tuesday evening. A bipartisan crowd of legislators, staffers, political activists, journalists, think-tank scholars and well-wishers joined the Breitbart California staff at Chops Sacramento.
Motorists driving through Sacramento this past Presidents Day holiday weekend got an eyeful as they drove down U.S. Route 50. The R-rated, box office smashing film “50 Shades of Grey” could be seen in plain sight from a projection screen at a nearby drive-in movie theatre.
A student at Florin High School in Sacramento tested positive for tuberculosis last week, prompting the school to schedule testing for the disease among 150 other students beginning Tuesday, according to Capital Public Radio.
Thursday’s suspected Ebola patient, who was monitored at UC Davis Medical Center Sacramento, tested negative for the virus in results released Friday morning, according to officials from the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) the Sacramento County Department of Health and Human Services, and the medical center.
The University of California Davis Medical Center received a suspected case of Ebola Thursday morning when a patient exhibiting symptoms consistent with the disease was transferred from Mercy General Hospital in Sacramento.
One of the few pro-police rallies to take place in the midst of a plethora of anti-police protests throughout California was almost interrupted by counter-protesters in the state’s capital city of Sacramento on Sunday.
The basement cafeteria in California’s State Capitol, which was shut down because it harbored a cockroach infestation, has been given permission to reopen, although it has not done so yet. Griselda’s World Café was inspected twice, on December 18 and December 30, revealing numerous health code violations, including a cockroach infestation, heavy grease near the plumbing and storage area, a stove hood that was filthy, and a floor slippery with water from an ice machine.
A Sacramento man firing a gun to celebrate the New Year accidentally shot his girlfriend and is now under arrest, facing charges of involuntary manslaughter.
