Elk Grove

The baseball post-season gets underway this afternoon with several single-elimination "play-in" games around the area. I'll be tweeting updates from Vintage vs. Elk Grove this afternoon. There's a couple good stories worth reading. Joe Davidson wrote ...

May 12, 2013 | Five alleged pothouse growers were arrested yesterday after firefighters from the Cosumnes Community Services District Fire Department and the City of Sacramento Fire Department responded to a structure fire at a home in ...

  By Erma Brombeck |  May 12, 1974 - Mother's Day column | When the Good Lord was creating mothers, He was into his sixth day of “overtime” when an angel appeared and said, “You’re doing a lot of fiddling around on this one.” ...

ELK GROVE—

Crime scene tape surrounds an Elk Grove home that went up in flames, with police are investigating whether a legal or illegal marijuana growing operation was being run inside.

“I walked outside to the pool, iPod and towel …

By Michael Monasky | May 11, 2013 When suburban sprawl and feuding agribusiness interests deplete water supplies, bureaucrats seek a scapegoat. This time it's science. The Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) and the S.D. Becht...

Seattle, Wash. - Cal senior Jolene Henderson entered the pitching circle Thursday for the first time since April 21, taking the loss in a 7-4 defeat against Washington. She gave up one run in her one inning of work. Henderson (29...

May 11, 2013 | from Maplight By a vote of 69-27, the Senate passed  a bill on Monday that would require online retailers to collect and distribute sales taxes according to the tax laws of the fifty states. Under current law, retailer...

May 10, 2013 | During Wednesday night's Elk Grove City Council meeting two citizens sought information on procedures for obtaining use of the city's recently purchased lot in Old Town and how one can get an item placed on the city council agend...

By Gary Chew | May 10, 2013 | The most salient point in F. Scott Fitzgerald's great novel, “The Great Gatsby,” comes when Nick Carraway admonishes Jay Gatsby: “You can't repeat the past.” Making sure to abide by that admoniti...

Typically the team to beat every year for the Sac-Joaquin Section's Division I softball championship hails from Elk Grove. Over the past seven years the champion has been Sheldon (four times), Elk Grove (once), Pleasant Grove (once) or Franklin (once)....