Sacramento Bee

When the San Francisco Bay Area-based Webcor professional cycling team signed David Clinger to a contract late last year, the team believed they were landing one of the most gifted...

First, there were the inane indecency complaints about the Olympics and about "Saving Private Ryan." Then some wackos went after "SpongeBob SquarePants." "SpongeBob" is a cartoon. Now, PBS, wary of...

The idea seems preposterous, but a California company insists it's true: For $3,000, the Dorean Group says it can wipe your mortgage off the books. Dorean, of Union City, Calif.,...

Not so long ago someone looking to buy a house fit squarely into one of two boxes: Based largely on credit score, the borrower either qualified for a "prime" loan...

Success breeds escape. How else to explain the white-collar urban dweller who retreats to a mountainous log home where the snow piles high against the windows and the living is...

Japanese investors, tormented by plunging real estate values at home and a prolonged domestic banking crisis, are accelerating their pullout of U.S. holdings, putting $6.4 billion of their assets on...

Fierce storms that ravaged California this year left behind the most expensive flood damages in state history-$1.8 billion in losses to property and agriculture, according to the latest estimates. The...

The situation was untenable. Through his work for the state Board of Aging in Wisconsin, Ken Scholen began encountering people who owned their homes outright but barely had enough money...

Charlotte Delgado has survived five cancer surgeries in eight years and tolerates a debilitating lung disease. But the 57-year-old retired Sacramento woman lives these days with yet another gut-wrenching fear:...

Envisioning a K Street Mall with the amenities of its posh neighbor, Downtown Plaza, one of the Sacramento area's largest property owners is striving to make 7th to 13th streets...