{"id":333974,"date":"2026-05-27T05:07:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T05:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/333974\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T05:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T05:07:10","slug":"sacramento-californias-top-stories-roundup-for-may-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/333974\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento, California\u2019s, top stories roundup for May 26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sacramento Bee published a range of stories Tuesday covering sports, local government, agriculture, politics and transportation.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a quick digest of the day\u2019s coverage:<\/p>\n<p>The Sacramento Zoo <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/news\/local\/article315895194.html\">released revised expansion plans<\/a> that no longer replace a historic statue of Charles Swanston and an adjacent garden in William Land Park. The zoo will instead seek land north of its entrance along Land Park Drive and 15th Avenue, using about 0.2 acres less of the park than originally proposed.Invasive glassy-winged sharpshooters were <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/news\/california\/article315897739.html\">found on grapevines sold at Costco stores<\/a> in Sacramento County and other Northern California counties. While 160 grapevines have been destroyed, hundreds more remain unaccounted for in the possession of community members, raising concerns about Pierce\u2019s disease spreading to local vineyards.Former Sacramento Kings head coach Mike Brown <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/sports\/nba\/sacramento-kings\/article315892786.html\">thanked Kings owner Vivek Ranadiv\u00e9<\/a> after leading the New York Knicks to the NBA Finals in his first season with the team. The Knicks swept the Cleveland Cavaliers in the Eastern Conference finals with a 130-93 Game 4 victory, just 17 months after Brown was fired by Sacramento.State Sen. Angelique Ashby <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/news\/politics-government\/capitol-alert\/article315898253.html\">endorsed Mai Vang<\/a> in her challenge against longtime Rep. Doris Matsui for California\u2019s 7th Congressional District. Matsui has reported $1.5 million in contributions plus a $1.4 million loan, while Vang has raised more than $800,000 in the race framed as a generational battle.  <\/p>\n<p>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/news\/nation-world\/national\/article280707640.html\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">McClatchy Media\u2019s AI policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Sacramento Bee published a range of stories Tuesday covering sports, local government, agriculture, politics and transportation. Here&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-333974","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\/333974","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=333974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}