# Sacramento Bee News California

> The Latest Local CA Articles

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id382902278](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id382902278)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id382902278`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** The McClatchy Company
- **Category:** News
- **Rating:** 4.20 / 5 (4,726 ratings)
- **Version:** 11.1.17
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-13
- **First published:** 2010-07-25
- **Size:** 145 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-03
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sacramento-bee-news-california/id382902278)
- **Website:** [https://www.sacbee.com/](https://www.sacbee.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [http://www.sacbee.com/site-services/privacy-policy/](http://www.sacbee.com/site-services/privacy-policy/)

## Description

The Sacramento Bee News extension provides quick access to local daily news and sports from the Sacramento region, including Sacramento, Roseville, Elk Grove, Folsom, and El Dorado. It features live video coverage, investigative reporting, and national headlines, all curated by the Sacramento Bee newsroom.

Personalize your experience with topic subscriptions, saved articles, search, and category browsing, and enjoy reading in dark or light mode. Additional features include sharing, commenting, access to past issues, and puzzles and games for leisure.

## Rankings

- #28,017 — Overall

## Review summary

Users generally appreciate the Sac Bee's local news content and see the app as a go-to source for reading, especially in the morning, but the overall experience is hampered by persistent ads, frequent loading crashes, and stale editions. Many reviews cite incompatibility with older iPads, frequent updates breaking access, and poor customer support. Recurrent issues include non-closable ad banners blocking content, repeated articles, and login prompts. Improvements exist when the app is functioning, but the prevailing pattern is a reliability and UX problem that undermines a paid subscription.

### Pros

- Strong local news coverage and Sac Bee content.
- Used as a go-to source for daily/morning news.
- When the app works, reading articles is straightforward.

### Cons

- Intrusive ads and overlays (floating ad bar, bottom ads, pop-ups) that obstruct reading and cant be closed.
- Reliability and performance problems (pages/editions not loading, crashes, slow downloads).
- Compatibility/update issues on older devices (older iPads; updates break access).
- Poor customer support and unresponsive service.
- Recurrent content problems (duplicate articles in editions, stale content/not updated).

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