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Sacramento City Councilmember Mai Vang, a candidate for the 7th Congressional District, celebrates early returns with former City Councilmember Katie Valenzuela during her election night party at The Lock & Key in midtown Sacramento on Tuesday, June 2, 2026.<\/p>\n
HECTOR AMEZCUA<\/p>\n
hamezcua@sacbee.com<\/p>\n
From a new return-to-office policy, to an indigenous tribe reclaiming ancestral land, here\u2019s a roundup of the top Sacramento Bee stories from this past week.<\/p>\n
Gov. Gavin Newsom\u2019s order to bring state workers back to offices four days a week is hitting roadblocks as several departments lack sufficient space to accommodate returning employees. The Employment Development Department and California Department of Public Health have acknowledged space constraints, while unions and workers are ramping up opposition to the mandate<\/a>.A former Sacramento City Unified kindergarten teacher has filed a lawsuit alleging her predominantly minority class at David Lubin Elementary was segregated from two white teachers\u2019 classes during lunch, recess and field trips. Lanisha Barney also claims she was denied disability accommodations and was terminated on June 13 while on approved medical leave, according to her complaint against the district<\/a>.The Glenn County Sheriff\u2019s Office will end its $2.3 million law enforcement contract with the City of Willows on June 30, saying the actual cost of services is $3.4 million annually and the arrangement is unsustainable. After the contract expires, calls for help from Willows residents will be routed to the California Highway Patrol or the Willows Fire Department, the Sheriff\u2019s Office announced<\/a>.The Mechoopda Indian Tribe of Chico Rancheria has reclaimed 450 acres of ancestral land<\/a> in Butte County after roughly seven years of negotiations. The return, within the Big Chico Creek watershed, marks one of the tribe\u2019s largest land restorations since it began rebuilding its land base in 1996.Sacramento Councilmember Mai Vang is leading the primary for California\u2019s 7th Congressional District with 30.9% of the vote, narrowly ahead of longtime Democratic incumbent Rep. Doris Matsui at 29.1% (as of Tuesday, June 9). Both will advance to November in what is shaping up to be Matsui\u2019s toughest electoral challenge<\/a> since she arrived in Congress more than 20 years ago. <\/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":"Sacramento City Councilmember Mai Vang, a candidate for the 7th Congressional District, celebrates early returns with former City…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-359330","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\/359330","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=359330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}