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The sequester means that most federal budgets must be reduced by as much as five percent. Housing is taking a huge hit. I’ve been stewing about it for days now. I want to ask the important people in Washington – starting with the one in the...

Hood, California, is a farming town of 200 souls, crammed up against a levee that protects it from the Sacramento River. The eastern approach from I-5 and the Sacramento suburb of Elk Grove is bucolic. Cows graze. An abandoned railroad track sits atop...

A man prepares to move from a Sacramento homeless encampment in 2009. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli) Sacramento’s city council and the county’s board of supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to make homeless people a priority on waiting lists for affordable...

Here is the latest Local News from the San Francisco Chronicle. East Bay conservation champion dead at 71 Ted Radke, the longest-serving board member of the East Bay Regional Park District, died Sunday at age 71, according to a park district statement...

SUPERVISOR JOHN PINCHES, as reported in these pages, has made it clear that he intends to challenge the Sonoma County Water Agency (SCWA) to force them to pay Mendocino County for the water that is exported from Lake Mendocino and then sold as far south...