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11/09/2024

Another round of Sacramento County election results were released on Friday. Early results show in the race for Sacramento mayor, Assembly member Kevin McCarty holds a lead with 54% of the 113,724 ballots counted so far. Epidemiologist Dr. Flojaune Cofer follows with 45%.

CapRadio will provide updates on preliminary results for the Sacramento County 2024 General Election here.

11/09/2024

The money will fund a variety of projects, including those that boost access to safe drinking water, wildfire prevention and the protection of lands and communities in California.

Proposition 4 funds a variety of climate-related projects, including those that focus on wildfire prevention and the protection of natural lands.

11/08/2024

Proposition 33 would’ve rolled back state-wide restrictions on rent control. Proposition 5 would’ve made it easier for local governments to approve bonds for affordable housing, among other projects. Both have failed, according to respective Associated Press race calls.

Californians voted down two measures this year that would’ve given city and county governments more control in setting housing policy.

11/08/2024

Dawn Foster, director of marketing and communications for the Sacramento SPCA, said their Zoe K. McCrea Animal Health Center is one of the top 10 high-volume spay and neuter clinics in the nation performing more than 20,000 surgeries per year.

The Sacramento SPCA kicked off its fall book sale fundraiser Tuesday to fund the care its rescue animals require. The event will continue through Saturday.

11/08/2024

Advocates said the Sacramento region’s greater focus on treatment and housing services led to this year’s drop. The most recent homeless count found 548 veterans living on the county’s streets, riverbanks and in shelters. That’s down from 645 two years ago.

Advocates say increased treatment and housing services led to the reduction but they caution Sacramento’s high cost of living is pushing more vets into homelessness.

11/08/2024

“The fact that TB still kills and sickens so many people is an outrage, when we have the tools to prevent it, detect it and treat it,” said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO director-general, in a statement issued on October 29.

Dislodged by COVID early in the pandemic, tuberculosis is once again the infectious disease that takes the most lives each year. And the number of cases set a new record. What's going on?

11/08/2024

The Governor’s Office said that the new resources will likely go towards defending civil and reproductive rights, climate action and the state’s immigrant population, depending on what actions the administration takes.

Newsom is asking the California Legislature to approve funds preemptively for potential lawsuits against the incoming Trump administration.

11/07/2024

Bonta said his team had a strategy in place starting from Election Day.

Attorney General Rob Bonta, a longtime champion of reproductive rights, is ready to lead California in the fight to protect abortion under Trump’s second presidency. In a Q&A, he shares how his upbringing prepared him for the role.

11/07/2024

The $175 million stadium is expected to have over 12,000 seats and is part of a larger infrastructure project aimed at making the Railyards an entertainment destination. The project also includes an additional 3,600-seat venue in the railyard's historic Central Shops.

Wilton Rancheria, the Tribe which owns Sky River Casino in Elk Grove, will take over as majority owners of the soccer team. City officials said Wilton Rancheria is the first Tribe to hold majority ownership in a men’s professional sports franchise.

11/07/2024

The nonprofit organization kicked off its book drive fundraiser Tuesday to fund the care its animals require. Now, SSPCA visitors can peruse both books and animals available for adoption.

The Sacramento SPCA kicked off its fall book sale fundraiser Tuesday to fund the care its rescue animals require. The event will continue through Saturday.

11/07/2024

Gov. Gavin Newsom today called newly elected state lawmakers to work as soon as they’re sworn in on Dec. 2 for a special session to “safeguard California values” as the state prepares — again — to be a liberal antagonist to the upcoming Trump administration.

Newsom wants the new Legislature to ‘protect’ California from Donald Trump on civil rights, reproductive freedom, climate action, and immigrant families. The session will start Dec. 2.

11/07/2024

President Biden said Thursday that the American people deserve “a peaceful and orderly” transition and urged Americans “no matter who you voted for to see each other not as adversaries, but as fellow Americans.” More from NPR ⤵️

President Biden plans to address the nation on Thursday at 11 a.m. ET to discuss the election results and the transition, the White House told reporters.

11/07/2024

Californians now face a repeat of Trump’s first term from 2017 to 2021 — another four years of governance consumed by combative showdowns between the state’s Democratic leadership and Washington, D.C., possibly distracting from or even setting back progress on addressing California’s own problems.

Expect four more years of combative showdowns between California’s Democratic leadership and a second Trump White House.

11/06/2024

The California Democrat became a fixture on the national political stage as he stood behind Biden to the bitter end — a boost in profile, long cultivated by Newsom, that made him a serious prospect in conversations about who Democrats could select as a replacement nominee.

California’s governor faces a lot of obstacles to a plausible run for president in 2028, even if he does help lead the resistance to Donald Trump.

11/06/2024

“We’re running against something far bigger than Joe [Biden] or Kamala [Harris] and far more powerful than them, which is a massive, vicious radical-left machine that runs today’s Democrat Party,” Trump said on Election Night.

Trump’s overall closing focus on the economy and immigration ultimately resonated with enough Americans — more than the message from Harris, who called for unity and warned that Trump was a “petty tyrant” obsessed with revenge.

11/06/2024

Polls have closed in California and initial results are starting to come in. It may take days — or even weeks — for many races to be called, with results coming in waves as mail-in ballots are received and counted. Here's what we know about statewide propositions, so far ⤵️

Polls have closed and initial results for the 10 statewide ballot measures have been released.

11/06/2024

Tom Martinez, a co-inspector for the vote center at the Oak Park Community Center, said he’s worked every election since 2018. This time around, he said he noticed an increase in provisional voters — something he thinks has to do with the significance of this election.

Thousands of Sacramentans visited polling places, vote centers and ballot drop boxes across the region on Tuesday to ensure their voices were heard ahead of the 2024 General Election

11/06/2024

Trump won the key states of Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, with a combined 29 electoral votes to clinch the 270 necessary to win the presidency. As of 5:34am ET Wednesday, Trump had 277 electoral votes total.

Becoming just the second president to be defeated and then reelected to a subsequent term, former President Donald Trump defeated Vice President Harris and will be the 47th president.

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