blindelof@sacbee.com (Bill Lindelof)

Every Sacramento public library will be closed March 30 due to staff furloughs. In addition to the closure of all 28 public library locations, the library system's telephone information service also will not be in operation March 30. However, the l...

Ireta Black is a first-time published author at 89 years old. In her long and active adult life, she had confined her writing to things such as letters and grocery lists. Now she's the author of a story in "Not Your Mother's Book … On Be...

The annual Nite Brite Bike Parade in east Sacramento has been canceled. A story in Monday's Bee said the parade, in which people decorate their bikes with lights and holiday cheer, was scheduled for tonight. However, this year's parade will not...

Huell Howser, maker of upbeat PBS shows about California for public television, is retiring from producing new shows about his adopted state. It's not "amazing," as Howser would say, that he has decided to hang up his microphone without issuing a n...

For the second year in a row, the Sacramento region has been shut out of the Amgen Tour of California, organizers announced Tuesday. The eighth edition of the road cycling race next year will cover about 750 miles from May 12 to May 19. The 2013 ro...

The disappearance of Clear Channel-owned stations from the radio airwaves Wednesday morning was traced to a software problem, a local spokesman for the media company said. "It was quite a morning for a lot of people here, scrambling to fix what hap...

Rush Limbaugh at KFBK's 80th birthday partyThe disappearance of Clear Channel-owned stations from the radio airwaves Wednesday morning has been traced to a software problem, a local spokesman for the media company said. "It was quite a mornin...

Rush Limbaugh at KFBK's 80th birthday partyTechnical problems have knocked some Sacramento radio shows off the air. KFBK 1530 and its Clear Channel sister stations have been off the air since about 7 a.m., according to one KFBK tweet. Station...

Sacramento Bee Publisher and President Cheryl Dell will be the keynote speaker at Drexel University's commencement ceremony in Sacramento on Saturday. Dell will deliver the keynote address at the Crocker Art Museum as the university awards 110 grad...

The Bee took home four first-place prizes and two second-place awards in the 2011 Better Newspapers Contest sponsored by the California Newspaper Publishers Association. Investigative reporter Marjie Lundstrom won a first place and a second place. ...