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  • Sacramento area home prices rising fastest in nation

    Sacramento metro-area home values rose a nation-leading 3.4 percent from March to April, Seattle-based data tracker Zillow said today.Zillow put the Sacramento area's median home value at $252,900 last month, with the monthly percentage surge topping the 30 largest U.S. metro areas tracked by Zillow.That was up 9.7 percent from the most recent quarter and a whopping 25.4 percent year over ...

  • Things to do Hunger in the U.S. gist of documentary to screen at Crest

    ," which screens May 29 & 30 and June 1 at the Crest Theatre. The Sacramento Hunger Coalition is presenting a showing of the film tonight at 6, followed by a panel discussion as part ...

  • UC hospital techs go on strike

    At 4 a.m. Tuesday, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees asked its nearly 13,000 members to leave their posts at five UC hospitals across the state for two ...

  • San Francisco Bay Area picked to host 50th Super Bowl in 2016

    BOSTON - As expected, the Super Bowl is officially returning to California. At their spring meeting on Tuesday, NFL owners awarded Super Bowl L in 2016 to the Bay Area and the San Francisco 49ers' Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, ending what will be a 13-year drought for the state that has hosted 11 Super Bowls. The last Super Bowl in California was in January 2003, when Super Bowl ...

  • Benefical Insects for Your Garden

    In our weekly gardening tips, Alisa Becerra heads to Green Acres Nursery & Supply in Sacramento to learn what insects are the best to keep your garden ...


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Movie Review

The Children Are Watching Us (I bambini ci guardano) [DVD]

The Children Are Watching Us (I bambini ci guardano) [DVD]

The child knows. Although just a diminutive four-year-old, utterly nave about the world around him, he senses--he knows--that something is not right with the way his mother is talking to the man in the park. It is wrong, and when he takes his two-wheel s ... ...

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  • Overturned Cement Truck Blocking Traffic Along River Road

    Scene of the crash. SACRAMENTO COUNTY-- An overturned cement truck has closed down Twin Cities Road near River Road Tuesday. The crash was first reported just before 11:30 a.m. A driver who has only been with the truck company for a week was with an instructor when CHP says the truck came up on a curb too fast. The payload of cement in the truck sloshed around, shifting the center of gravity ...

  • 49ers’ New Stadium Selected to Host Super Bowl 50

    The 49ers’ new home, as envisioned in a digital model. SAN FRANCISCO-- The 49ers will have a chance to play a hometown Super Bowl, as the NFL owners have voted for Levi Stadium to host Super Bowl 50. Team owners made the vote in Boston Tuesday, as a part discussions on other league business. Levi Stadium, the replacement for Candlestick Park, is expected to be open for the 2014 ...

  • Helping in Crisis Search and Rescue Teams

    Paul Robins and Bethany Crouch talk to Captain Chris Quinn and Jason Cornell with Metro Fire. They discuss the Urban Search and Rescue Team and how they help out in crisis ...

  • Appeals Court Strikes Down Arizona’s 20-Week Abortion Ban

    permanently struck down Arizona’s ';fetal pain'; law that would have criminalized abortion services after 20 weeks of pregnancy. The panel of judges determined that the 20-week ban is unconstitutional ...

  • Court strikes down Arizona 20-week abortion ban

    The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the law violates a string of U.S. Supreme Court rulings starting with Roe v. Wade that guarantees a woman's right to an abortion before a fetus is able to survive outside the womb. That's generally considered to be about 24 weeks. Normal pregnancies run about 40 ...

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