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.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Sacramento Bee on May 7, 2026, covered major developments across local government, business and public safety, including…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[94730,7,128698,128699,1071,48861,1492,121,2006,123,122],"class_list":["post-307046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-budget-crisis","tag-california","tag-department-of-community-response","tag-ian-parkinson","tag-local-government","tag-pluckebaum","tag-public-safety","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-bee","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307046","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=307046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}