Ariane Lange

6 days ago | sacbee.com | Ariane Lange

Adair and Jago Martin walk about 20 minutes to and from their Fair Oaksschool. Every time they do, their mother worries that a driver is going to kill them. Susannah Martin’s daughters — Adair is 18 and Jago is 16 — worry, too. The only route available to them is just under a mile each way, and because most of it has no sidewalk, they’re usually on the shoulder, with only a line of paint between them and speeding vehicles.

2 weeks ago | sacbee.com | Ariane Lange

Sacramento will begin replacing a “functionally obsolete” 98-year-old bridge on Auburn Boulevard on the northeastern city limit, raising the height of the bridge slightly to reduce flooding. The city said in a news release that the Department of Public Works will replace the Arcade Creek Bridge, a 70-foot structure that carries five lanes of traffic over a small creek that eventually flows into the Sacramento River. The replacement is more than a decade in the making.

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Ariane Lange

Sacramento will begin replacing a “functionally obsolete” 98-year-old bridge on Auburn Boulevard on the northeastern city limit, raising the height of the bridge slightly to reduce flooding. The city said in a news release that the Department of Public Works will replace the Arcade Creek Bridge, a 70-foot structure that carries five lanes of traffic over a small creek that eventually flows into the Sacramento River. The replacement is more than a decade in the making.

2 weeks ago | sacbee.com | Ariane Lange

The Department of Public Works could install as many as 40 road safety projects each year as the city of Sacramento charges forward with a more aggressive strategy to end traffic deaths. Megan Carter, the city’s traffic engineer and Public Works’ transportation division manager, said that it had become clear that her department needed to act with greater urgency to address a safety crisis that leaves dozens of people dead each year. “The methodology of the past wasn’t working,” Carter said.

3 weeks ago | sacbee.com | Ariane Lange

Machelle Wilson, a UC Davis statistician who approached her three children and five grandchildren with the same boundless curiosity that propelled her hard-won career in academia, was hit by a car in October and died of complications from her injuries March 24. She was 64. Wilson had been walking her two dogs Oct. 12 in Fruitridge Pocket, not far from the home she shared with her youngest child, Azelyn Failor, 37; her son-in-law; and two of her grandchildren.