Ariane Lange

As Californians sweltered in a heat wave driven by climate change, the California Transportation Commission approved highway projects.

2025 marked another outstanding year for Parking Enforcement Officer Grant Nakamura, the hardest-working man in Sacramento.

One mourning mother, Allison Lyman, said that with California’s lax response to vehicle crashes, “There is no accountability.”

The latest death, of a 31-year old, comes as the city approaches 2027 — the “Vision Zero” deadline the Sacramento City Council previously set for ending traffic fatalities.

Black women still face maternal death rates that are four times higher than the overall rate, even after post-pandemic improvements.

“If there was a barrier, my son would be alive.”

A proposed sales tax to fund street safety in the California capital cleared the first hurdle to land on the November ballot.

One woman has slipped through a weak social safety net in California again and again.

For decades, California has had a type of homicide just for drivers. Criminal sentencing for fatal car crashes is relatively light.

To justify a car-centric culture, California has to downplay most fatal car crashes. Is the one that killed Connor Lopez different?