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The Sacramento region will get a new area code. The question is whether people will get to keep their existing ten-digit numbers.

Law enforcement and civil liberties groups have coalesced behind a bill that would set new limits on public agencies that seize and sell cash and property involved in crimes.

Sacramento based American Red Cross chapter is reaching out for donations and supplying volunteers to send Shelter, food, and other supplies to fire victims in Lake County and to Louisiana flood victims.

The city of Sacramento now requires you to pay to park until 10 p.m. in the midtown area where free parking used to begin at 6 p.m. In some neighborhoods, the number of hours you are allowed to park has also been reduced.

Grassroots gun rights advocates in California aren’t just furious about the gun control bills signed by Gov. Jerry Brown in recent weeks. They’re hoping to take action. But the effort they started Friday to overturn the measures faces long odds.

The oil industry’s lead advocate at the California Capitol says the industry supports Governor Jerry Brown’s effort to extend the state’s fight against climate change – but only with some significant changes.

The Political Junkie is turning his analytical gaze west. Ken Rudin, known to NPR listeners from his many years talking all things politics with Neal Conan on "Talk of the Nation," joins Insight host Beth Ruyak for our signature segment.

For a little over a week artists from Sacramento and around the world are taking over walls in alleys and on streets and transforming boring concrete structures into works of art. We'll talk to the people behind Sacramento's first mural festival.

Just in time for the start of Sacramento Cocktail Week comes a new cookbook dedicated to Sacramento cocktails and the mixologists behind them. Authors Garrett McCord and Callista Polhemus join us to talk about how the book came to be.

A village of small houses for the homeless is now open in the city of Marysville.