Jenavieve Hatch

Jenavieve Hatch is a politics reporter for The Sacramento Bee’s Capitol Bureau. She is a graduate of the UC Davis Creative Writing MFA program and previously worked as a politics enterprise reporter at HuffPost.

Jeff Gorder, spokesman for The Committee to Recall Kevin Crye, speaks in front of recall supporters before a Shasta County Board of Supervisors meeting on Tuesday, May 16, 2023.

In Shasta County, moderate Republicans and union organizers push back on ‘far-right extremism’

May 19, 2023 at 9:03 a.m.

Dawn Duckett sat in the Shasta County Board of Supervisors chamber for more than three hours Tuesday night before she got a chance to speak. The board has five members,...

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Shasta County votes to spend millions manually counting ballots, and not all voters are happy

April 26, 2023 at 2:56 p.m.

The Shasta County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to allocate millions of taxpayer dollars to pay for seven new employees who will assist in the county's switch to manual ballot...

13-year-old driver accused of stealing a car and causing fatal crash in Woodland

April 10, 2023 at 11:01 a.m.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A traffic collision — which investigators say was triggered by a 13-year-old driver — left one person dead and about a dozen more injured, according to the Woodland...

Members of Child Care Providers United, a labor union formed in 2020 to represent California's child care workers, march with children past the state Capitol in Sacramento on Tuesday, June 8, 2021.

Gavin Newsom promised California child care providers pandemic pay. They’re still waiting

April 7, 2023 at 10:29 a.m.

Almost 10,000 child care providers have reached out to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office demanding an update on the hundreds of thousands of dollars that the state promised them. Members of...

A woman holds an abortion rights sign during the Women’s March Action Rally for Reproductive Rights at Mariachi Plaza in Los Angeles on Oct. 8, 2022. (Photo: David McNew/AFP via Getty Images)

In some conservative California counties where anti-abortion candidates win, so does abortion

November 14, 2022 at 12:18 p.m.

In some of California's most conservative counties, where Republican gubernatorial candidate Brian Dahle was the clear favorite over Gov. Gavin Newsom and where anti-abortion Christian conservatives are leading in partial...

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