West Sacramento pauses work on long-planned riverfront streetcar project

West Sacramento has suspended additional work and spending on the long-planned Downtown Riverfront Streetcar project while city officials assess whether rising construction costs and uncertainty surrounding federal funding have threatened the project’s viability. The pause was disclosed in a staff report prepared for the City Council’s Aug.

Two decades after approval, Lennar advances 198-home Rancho Cordova project

Sacramento zoning overhaul could change where businesses open and how housing is built across the city

Small cafes, markets, gyms and offices could open on qualifying residential corner lots under a citywide zoning overhaul proposed by Sacramento planners. The city would also rewrite design standards for multiplexes and small apartment buildings in neighborhoods dominated by single-family homes. The proposal would allow taller housing near transit,

Sacramento County weighs sweeping zoning overhaul to spur infill housing

Sacramento County has spent years planning for thousands of homes along commercial corridors such as Watt Avenue, Florin Road and Stockton Boulevard. Most of them were never built. County planners are now preparing a zoning overhaul that could increase developer appetite by allowing taller apartment buildings, requiring less parking space,

Roseville planners to consider 58,000-square-foot Sierra View Shopping Center

Roseville planning commissioners will consider a proposal Thursday for a 58,210-square-foot shopping center in the city's growing western neighborhoods, with plans calling for a grocery store, three drive-through restaurants and a 24-hour fueling station. The proposed Sierra View Shopping Center would occupy 14.

281-unit affordable housing project advances in Rocklin

Inside the latest construction progress at Sacramento Railyards

A year ago, much of the northern end of Sacramento’s Railyards was still in the grading phase with construction equipment scattered around an 18-acre site. By July 28, steel for Kaiser Permanente’s new hospital had climbed several stories above Railyards Boulevard and a concrete parking garage was

Sutter County sends 1-cent sales tax measure to November ballot

Sutter County voters will decide this November whether to raise the countywide sales tax by one percentage point, after the Board of Supervisors unanimously placed a measure on the ballot that officials say could generate about $22.5 million a year for local government services. The Board voted 5-0

Sacramento’s $75 million transportation tax falls short of November ballot

A citizen-led effort to raise Sacramento’s sales tax by half a percentage point for street repairs and public transit will not appear on the November ballot after county elections officials determined the campaign did not submit enough valid voter signatures. The Sacramento County Registrar of Voters completed its

Woodland approves 50% average increase in building permit fees

California’s first 7 Brew Coffee planned for Roseville

One of the country’s fastest-growing coffee chains is preparing to enter California through an unlikely front door: a half-acre corner of a Lowe’s parking lot in Roseville. 7 Brew Coffee plans to build a small, double-lane drive-through stand along Fairway Drive, near Highway 65

Sacramento County prepares to seek bids on first segment of Hazel Avenue interchange rebuild

Sacramento County is preparing to seek bids for the first segment of a long-planned reconstruction of the Hazel Avenue interchange at U.S. 50, beginning with bridge, ramp and freeway work expected to start in spring 2027. The county estimates the first segment will cost $27.4 million to