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(Yuba-Sutter, CA) – The Yuba Water Agency yesterday committed another $1-million grant for levee improvement, specifically, this million goes toward further strengthening the east bank of the Feather River, north of Marysville in District 10.The latest improvements will focus on increasing access for maintenance, inspection & flood fighting operations during high water events, increased embankment…

(Sacramento, CA) — Bird flu is officially at Land Park. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife says three geese recently found dead in the Land Park pond all tested positive for avian flu.Judy McClaver, a waterfowl advocate who visits the park nearly every day, sent the dead geese in for testing. She says she…

(Yuba-Sutter, CA) – In Yuba County Court yesterday, John Manuel Cardoza, Jr. was sentenced to 101 years to life, for eight separate charges related to child molestation.The abuse began when the victim was 8-years-old in 2018, and continued until last year, when the victim wrote their mother a letter detailing what had happened. That included…

(Yuba-Sutter, CA) – Follow up to the 2 fatal, pre-dawn collisions we reported on yesterday morning. The first occurred at around 2:30 when a 32-year-old Yuba City man, identified by The Appeal-Democrat as Sukhvir Singh Hundal – citing the Sutter County Sheriff’s office – collided with a tree while headed south on Garden Highway, just…

(Wheatland, CA) – The Wheatland Police Department reports meth and marijuana seized in a traffic stop.It occurred last Friday when an officer spotted a motor vehicle violation at HWY 65 & Dairy road. The driver is on probation out of Lassen County, on a vehicle theft conviction and a probation search turned up approximately a…

(Wheatland, CA) – Following a Friday night traffic stop resulting in a meth and marijuana seizure and one arrest, the following day (Saturday), Wheatland Police pulled over a vehicle for expired tags, at HWY 65 and State Street. The driver, a 53-year-old Citrus Heights resident, whose name is not given, “admitted to possessing a firearm…

(Yuba City, CA) — Yuba City’s Sikh festival and parade drew an estimated two-hundred-thousand visitors this year. It is the world’s largest Sikh festival outside India. This year’s event follows a crackdown on organized crime in the Sikh community.The FBI and California Highway Patrol assisted with security.

(Yuba-Sutter, CA) – The Yuba County Sheriff’s office reports an arrest, predawn, yesterday morning, following a high-speed pursuit which ended in Sacramento.Officers responded at around 1:30 to a report of a burglary in the 2200 block of Swaisy Drive in Linda. The victim told deputies it was her boyfriend, 52-year-old Tawn Saephan of Sacramento, who…

(Yuba-Sutter, CA) – The Yuba City Police Department reports a cocaine and firearm arrest at around midnight Wednesday. Officers pulled over a vehicle for running a stop-sign at Clark Avenue and Ainsley Avenues. One passenger, 25-year-old Jorge Soto-Mayor was arrested for a parole violation, while another passenger, 25-year-old Daniel Garcia, was arrested for possessing a…