Sacramento news you may have missed: new Asian grocery store, Newsom’s ICE bill veto and more

From a new Asian grocery store in south Sacramento to a federal investigation at UC Davis, this week brought developments that affect shoppers, students, workers and wildlife across the region. Here’s a quick recap of stories Sacramento-area readers shouldn’t miss.

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• SF Supermarket, an Asian grocery chain, officially opened a south Sacramento location at 7960 Gerber Road on Sept. 18, taking over a space that was a Save Mart until July. The store sells seafood, produce, meat and other groceries from China, Japan, Vietnam and the Philippines.

• California wildlife officials are taking public comment through Nov. 1 on a proposal to lift a 2019 moratorium on hunting and trapping bobcats. A state monitoring project found the bobcat population healthy and steady at an estimated 62,000 animals.

• Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed AB 1896, the “GTFO Act,” which would have barred former federal immigration officers from state and local jobs including police and sheriff’s departments. Newsom called the Trump administration’s immigration tactics “horrific” but said the bill was “a step too far.” On the same day, Newsom also rejected a measure that would have stopped federal immigration enforcement officers from using their experience to obtain a state training waiver. He did sign more than 20 other immigration-related bills this week.

• The Trump administration has launched a visa fraud investigation into UC Davis and eight other universities, including Harvard, Yale and Stanford. Vice President JD Vance accused the schools of overusing the J-1 exchange visitor visa to undercut wages for American graduate students and researchers. A UC Davis spokesperson said the school complies with all federal visa laws and will work with the government to confirm it. More than 13% of the campus’s nearly 40,000 students are from outside the U.S.