Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The historic Gold Rush settlement of Norristown located around where Sac State’s campus is today, is almost entirely forgotten.

At the California State Library, librarian Kim Sims carefully holds up a vial of gold flakes, a tiny reminder of the discovery that defined California’s early history. It’s a preview of the Sacramento ...

The small exhibit in the Sacramento History Museum is one of the most popular, according to its executive director.

Have you ever heard of Mary Ellen Pleasant? Known as the “Mother of Civil Rights in California,” Pleasant was born a slave in 1817, but eventually became an entrepreneur and abolitionist, who is ...

CBRE brokers Jim King and Randy Getz are listing the 61-year-old Sacramento County courthouse in Downtown Sacramento for sale ...

Sacramento has it's share of headline-making crimes and serial killers. 3. Dorothea Puente, perhaps one of the most infamous Sacramento serial killers. She was an unassuming grandmother-like woman who ...

No one had used the old North Sacramento School for some time, this much was clear on a crisp February day. At a rear door, a man removed boarding to allow access to the building, which was ...

The future stands just blocks outside of Bunmi O. Awoniyi’s sixth-floor window: a new Sacramento County courthouse, 18 stories tall, decades in the making, a move-in date set for early next year. That ...

Musicians perform in a 1982 Sacramento Bee photograph from the Center of Sacramento History's exhibit on the heyday of the Sacramento Jazz Jubilee. The exhibit will be part of the Sacramento Archives ...