Jake Goodrick

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Marysville Police Chief Christian Sachs, who called for tougher laws after one of his officers was killed in March, announced on Thursday that he was retiring as head of the law enforcement agency for the Northern California city of about 12,000 people. Sachs had worked for the Police Department for about 24 years, and he had led the police agency for more than seven years.

1 week ago | sacbee.com | Jake Goodrick

Maria Bravo took her turn to speak and did so in Spanish. As she addressed the crowd through the public comment microphone Tuesday, more than 20 people stood up from the audience seated before Sutter County supervisors. More people stood lining the walls of the packed meeting chambers. “These employees that stand in front of you are dependent on their job, working on the hemp,” said Bravo, a farm labor contractor. “They are good citizens. They get paid. They have homes. They have children.

2 weeks ago | sacbee.com | Jake Goodrick

An agreement to build a waterway allowing fish to swim freely past a dam on the lower Yuba River has moved forward as part of an initiative that also includes returning a threatened salmon species to another part of the watershed. Federal, state and local agencies have partnered on the potentially $100 million project and tout its goal of restoring access for a variety of fish species to parts of the river system walled off for more than a century.

2 weeks ago | sacbee.com | Jake Goodrick

An inmate is suspected of killing another incarcerated man Saturday morning at High Desert State Prison in Susanville. Prison officials recovered an “improvised weapon” from the scene and are investigating the incident in the prison yard as a homicide, according to a California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation news release. Authorities said that inmate Rodger A. Brown allegedly attacked William J. Couste, 54, at about 10:20 a.m. Saturday.

2 weeks ago | sacbee.com | Jake Goodrick

Live horse racing will not take place at the California State Fair this year as Cal Expo and fair board officials voted to opt out of a contract with the fair’s harness racing operator. The decision to cancel harness racing at Cal Expo after the current season, which ends Friday, followed action taken last month to end live thoroughbred horse racing, a 170-year-old fair tradition. “This was an incredibly difficult decision,” said Tom Martinez, Cal Expo’s CEO.