The News-Sentinel is looking back at some of the top local stories of 2024. Today's review covers September through December. The dates listed are when the stories appeared in the News-Sentinel, ...

The officer-involved shooting happened in the Vineyard neighborhood of Sacramento County just before midnight.

Sacramento County sheriff’s deputies shot ... The man, Eric Oneal Smith, was later arrested and remains in custody at the Main Jail awaiting trial in his felony attempted murder case.

The 39 acre island, currently listed on Sotheby’s for $40 million, has been the subject of considerable court controversy surrounding environmental regulation.

The campaign spin to get Proposition 47 passed in 2014 that upped the threshold for theft to be considered a felony to $950 ...

OWNERS. ANAHITA, THANK YOU SO MUCH. AND TONIGHT, TWO SACRAMENTO COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES ARE ON LEAVE AFTER SHOOTING AND KILLING A MAN THEY SAY WAS ARMED WITH A KNIFE. THIS ALL HAPPENED ON WILD ...

The county will have a new call center for people needing help with both mental health and substance abuse issues.

The U.S. Justice Department announced that it has entered into a court-enforceable agreement with Georgia’s most populous ...

Dr. Ryan Quist is the Sacramento County behavioral health director. He's now in charge of expanding the county's criteria for involuntary detention and treatment to include patients with severe ...

A suspect was hit by gunfire in a shooting involving County sheriff's deputies, authorities said Monday night.

It's called CARE Court. This program, which is now available in all of the state's 58 counties, is designed to get people with severe mental illnesses the help they need before that person might get ...