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Three rhesus macaques hang out in their enclosure at the primate research center at UC Davis on July 26, 2016.<\/p>\n
Randy Pench<\/p>\n
Sacramento Bee file<\/p>\n
The Sacramento Bee on May 7, 2026, covered major developments across local government, business and public safety, including the city of Sacramento\u2019s budget crisis and a look at how remote work has affected California\u2019s job market.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s a quick digest of the day\u2019s top stories.<\/p>\n
Sacramento Councilmember Phil Pluckebaum floated cutting the city\u2019s entire homeless agency<\/a> during a Tuesday council meeting as the city grapples with a $66.2 million budget shortfall. Pluckebaum later walked back the idea, calling it \u201cheartless,\u201d but said restructuring the $41.5 million Department of Community Response is still needed.California is missing roughly 200,000 jobs because of remote work trends<\/a> tied to the COVID-19 pandemic, the nonpartisan Legislative Analysts Office found. Employment in remote-heavy sectors grew 16% nationally from 2019 to 2024 but only 7% in California.A USDA inspection of UC Davis\u2019 California National Primate Research Center revealed that monkey fights potentially had been caused by human error<\/a>, including one incident in which a monkey required amputations after a welding failure let another monkey escape. The facility was also cited for keeping two monkeys in an enclosure smaller than federal regulations require.Ten Sacramento-area hospitals earned \u201cA\u201d grades in the Leapfrog Group\u2019s 2026 hospital safety report<\/a>, One hospital received a \u201cC,\u201d and eight hospitals received \u201cB\u201d grades, including two that previously held \u201cA\u201d ratings. Our story also delves into how the rankings have become controversial.San Luis Obispo County Sheriff Ian Parkinson said the search at convicted killer Paul Flores\u2019 Arroyo Grande home could last days as investigators \u201coverturn every rock\u201d<\/a> related to the Kristin Smart case. Parkinson said advances in ground-penetrating radar and other technology over the past 25 years prompted this most recent search for Smart\u2019s remains. <\/p>\n This report was produced with the assistance of a proprietary tool powered by artificial intelligence based on our own originally reported, written and published content. Before publishing, journalists reviewed this content in compliance with McClatchy Media\u2019s AI policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n Related Stories from Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three rhesus macaques hang out in their enclosure at the primate research center at UC Davis on July…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-305211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}