The Sacramento Convention Center is considering a major expansion that would add a third floor to the facility and help it compete better with its rivals, the center's CEO told KCRA 3.
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The California Highway Patrol is looking for witnesses, as it investigates the death of a man who was impaled by a metal rod while driving on Interstate 580 around Livermore.
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CITRUS HEIGHTS (CBS13) – Two people were killed inside of a Citrus Heights vehicle overnight. At around 11:30 p.m. Tuesday, police received multiple reports of shots fired in the 6000 block of Birdcage Street near Farmgate Way. When officers arrived, they found a man and a woman dead from multiple gunshot wounds inside a vehicle. Family members placed balloons and flowers in the spot where their loved ones were gunned down. “It’s like a dream, you know?
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A federal judge sentenced a Montana man to three years in prison on Wednesday for attempting to board a flight in Sacramento, Calif., with four loaded guns.
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A former South Lake Tahoe police officer faces up to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to multiple counts of witness tampering and obstruction.
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Gov. Jerry Brown called on the California Emergency Management Agency on Tuesday to send specialists from California's Urban Search and Rescue teams to aid in search efforts following Monday's devastating tornado in Oklahoma. This aerial view shows an entire neighborhood destroyed by Monday's tornado, Tuesday, May 21, 2013, in Moore, Okla. A huge tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburb Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary school with a direct blow as children
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In a room at Bruceville Terrace, a skilled nursing home in South Sacramento, 80-year-old Paul Smilanich sits with his daughter, Jane.
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Sacramento police are looking for a hit-and-run driver who killed a man crossing the road in a wheelchair on 18th and X streets in Sacramento.
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River Bend Park reopened Wednesday afternoon, but Sacramento Metro Fire crews continued to deal with the fallout of a wind-whipped blaze along the American River Parkway.
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Two-year colleges are seeing the first signs of relief from years of cost-cutting that produced a virtual stranglehold on students' ability to sign up for needed classes. Getting needed classes could be getting easier than in recent years at community colleges, such as Sierra College, where students waited in line to register, as some schools expands class offerings, especially in high-demand subjects such as math, English and science.
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Californians planning to travel over the upcoming Memorial Day holiday weekend will be watching their pennies ... and staying on the ground for the most part. TTravelers make their way down a hallway to a security checkpoint at Hartsfield-Jackson Airport in Atlanta.
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An armed woman has barricaded herself inside a Sacramento home, and is firing shots, police say.
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Sacramento police have surrounded a south Sacramento home where an armed person is believed to be barricaded. Check out our crime blog, Sacto 9-1-1.
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Temperatures are expected to drop again today, reaching only the low 70s in Sacramento. Alex Evans, 3, and his mother, Stacy play in the American River at Discovery Park in Sacramento, Calif., , Thursday, Sept, 22, 2011. This weekend will see summer-like temperatures.
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Of all the services to take a hit, the upkeep of the Sacramento's vast parks system has been affected perhaps the most. That cycle of cuts now seems likely to end. All but one of the city's 12 pools would open this summer.
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Workers atUniversity of California hospitals around the state are picketing for a second day over staffing and pension issues.
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A man and woman were found shot dead on Birdcage Street in Citrus Heights.
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LIVERMORE (CBS13) — A man’s death is under investigation after he was impaled by a metal pipe while driving on Interstate 580 Wednesday. California Highway Patrol says the accident happened near Livermore around 8:10 a.m. after the pipe — about 2 to 3-foot long, and 1 to 2 inches in diameter — went through the windshield of the man’s car and hit him in the jaw. As a result, the car crashed into an embankment. The 33-year-old
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A Republican has won a hotly contested state Senate contest in the southern San Joaquin Valley, with his top Democratic rival conceding Wednesday that the race will not go to a runoff.
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Sacramento is readying for a big celebration Thursday that will include some new and familiar faces of the NBA Kings.
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