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Roof Leak: Buckets set up inside Citrus Heights Walmart to catch rain

By Sara Beth Williams– During heavy weekend rains, the Walmart Supercenter in Citrus Heights could be seen littered with buckets and tubs to collect water from leaks in the store’s roof.

Citrus Heights nonprofit’s rental assistance program aims to prevent homelessness

By Sara Beth Williams– Federal COVID-19 relief funding will provide the Citrus Heights Homeless Assistance Resource Team (HART) with a significant financial boost in 2023, helping the nonprofit expand its rental assistance program to help keep people from…

Rotating winter shelter for Citrus Heights homeless to begin Jan. 1

By Mike Hazlip— An eight-week winter shelter for people experiencing homelessness in Citrus Heights is set to begin on Sunday, Jan. 1, organizers say.

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The Civic Minute: What’s happening at Citrus Heights City Hall

Citrus Heights City Council members will meet via Zoom video conferencing Thursday evening to hold a study session on improving roadway safety around schools, followed by a regular council meeting to vote on a sales tax proposal and…

Sunrise Mall redevelopment could add $1 billion value, up from current $31M

Newly released financial projections show the city’s vision to transform Sunrise Mall into a “21st Century Main Street” would result in a $1.1 billion development value, once completed.

Citrus Heights News Briefs: public hearing, lawsuit, obituary, school closures

Latest local news briefs include a local restaurant being sued for failure to pay rent, an obituary for a local resident who passed away of lung cancer, a public hearing regarding housing density and more.

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Citrus Heights considering new sales tax to boost budget by $12M per year

The Citrus Heights City Council on Thursday will vote on whether to place a local sales tax measure on the November ballot to address budget shortfalls and bring in an estimated $12 million in additional tax revenue per…

Citrus Heights pastor joins other churches in ignoring ban on indoor worship

Churches in Citrus Heights and across California are responding in different ways to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s latest health order which includes a ban on indoor worship services to limit the spread of COVID-19.

Sac Metro Fire truck, fireman. Photo credit: Luke Otterstad

Metro Fire: Citrus Heights residents can expect to see smoke from live fire training

Where there’s smoke, there’s fire, and citizens of Citrus Heights will be seeing smoke this week as firefighters conduct a live fire training at Bayside Church.

Citrus Heights gas station opens new ‘Dog Wash’

While most drop by a gas station for a fill up and maybe a car wash, Pastor’s Gas Station in Citrus Heights is now offering a dog wash option.

Two major collisions, one fatal, shut down Citrus Heights roadways

Two major collisions Friday night kept Citrus Heights police busy, including a head-on collision on Greenback Lane that shut down both directions of the roadway and another collision on Auburn Boulevard that left one man dead.

Fire behind Citrus Heights Dollar Tree displaces six residents

What began as a vegetation fire along a fence line behind Dollar Tree at Auburn Boulevard and Greenback Lane quickly spread to nearby cypress trees damaging residential buildings in the Creekside community of Citrus Heights Friday morning.