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All-organic production facility in Citrus Heights now supplying Whole Foods

Thousands of cars pass by it every day on Greenback Lane, although drivers likely haven’t given thought to what goes on inside the 8,500-square-feet building located next to Bubba’s Car Wash. Hawaii-based Life Foods, Inc. opened its all-organic…

Citrus Heights police logs. // CH Sentinel

2017 Citrus Heights Police Logs: domestic violence, grand theft, tire slashing

Latest Citrus Heights police logs include a $3,000 theft at Walgreens, transients harassing boys at an LDS church camp, a woman allegedly trying to assault her boyfriend with a hammer, and an arrest of a knife-wielding assault suspect.…

Citrus Heights News Briefs: cooling center, blood drive, free state fair tickets, affordable housing

Latest local news briefs include the city announcing a temporary cooling center inside the Citrus Heights Community Center in anticipation of an expected temperature spike in the area, an upcoming blood drive across from Sunrise Mall offering free…

Two eyesores in Citrus Heights finally being fixed up after local church buys property

A pair of vacant homes with boarded up windows, peeling exterior paint, and an overgrown yard. The sight has plagued a heavily-trafficked section of Old Auburn Road near Sylvan Corners for too long, but things are changing since…

house fire, oak ave, sunrise

House fire at Sunrise/Oak closes lanes, causes over $100k in damage

Several lanes of traffic at Sunrise Boulevard and Oak Avenue in Citrus Heights were partially blocked off around noon Thursday as emergency crews responded to the scene of a house fire on the west side of the intersection.…

robbery suspects

Suspects sought after video of alleged Citrus Heights AM/PM robbery goes viral

Over 250,000 views were made in just over 24 hours on a local Facebook video that went viral on Tuesday evening. The short, 16-second video appears to show several shoplifters in a physical confrontation with employees at the…

Ben's Hawaiian Cafe

Citrus Heights News Briefs: DUI arrests, 29 minutes, BBQ chicken, missing man

Latest local news briefs include a Citrus Heights Hawaiian cafe offering a lifetime eating pass for $1,000, a local officer being awarded for making 66 DUI arrests in 2016, an at-risk man with schizophrenia reported missing, and the…

Construction, garage conversions

Citrus Heights working to increase affordable housing by easing building regs

In an effort to increase affordable housing in the city and comply with a new state law, the City of Citrus Heights has been taking steps to ease regulations on garage conversions and secondary dwelling units. Last month,…

Citrus Heights police logs. // CH Sentinel

2017 Citrus Heights Police Logs: 7440 Club, stolen vehicles, collision spike

Latest Citrus Heights police logs include trouble at the 7440 Club on Auburn Boulevard, a repo agent encountering a stubborn vehicle owner, more transient trouble, and a collision spike during the rain on Thursday. The following is a…

police, burglary

CHPD officers praised for aiding 72-year-old driver; arresting 3 burglars

It’s late at night. Your vehicle runs out of gas and you pull to the side of the road. Some helpful officers take you to your home to get a gas can, but meanwhile your disabled vehicle has…