A busy weekend brought everything from fireworks picks and school restroom bill updates to a major lawsuit and UFC\u2019s return announcement.<\/p>\n
Here’s what you may have missed this weekend:<\/p>\n
State officials confirmed Saturday that invasive golden mussels have been found in and around the Port of West Sacramento<\/a>, the northernmost detection of the species to date. The freshwater mollusk, first spotted in North America in the Delta in 2024, threatens water systems by clogging pipes and altering the food web.The Bee\u2019s summer interns ranked the top \u201cSafe and Sane\u201d fireworks for 2026, with Discount Fireworks Superstore\u2019s \u201cDragon Dreamscape\u201d taking the crown thanks to a perfect 5.00 \u201coooh\u201d score from all 11 reviewers. See the full rankings of pop, crackle and boom<\/a> before sales open at noon Sunday.California schools must have at least one all-gender restroom on each campus by July 1 under Senate Bill 760, and Sacramento City Unified has spent more than $100,000 bringing its sites into compliance, with only two elementary schools remaining<\/a>. Twin Rivers Unified and Folsom Cordova Unified say all their schools already meet the requirement.Mia Settles-Tidwell, Sacramento State\u2019s former chief diversity officer, spoke out about her discrimination and retaliation lawsuit<\/a> against President Luke Wood and the CSU board of trustees. She says she was \u201cshocked and bewildered\u201d by Wood\u2019s treatment; the university calls her claims \u201cbaseless and devoid of merit.\u201dThe Paperworks, a 26,000-square-foot mixed-use shopping complex and museum exhibition space at 1115 Front St., opened Friday morning in Old Sacramento<\/a>. The upstairs Death by Natural Causes exhibit, in partnership with the Houston Museum of Natural Science, opens June 27 and explores poisonous plants and animals. <\/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":"A busy weekend brought everything from fireworks picks and school restroom bill updates to a major lawsuit and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-380328","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\/380328","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=380328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}