(Yuba-Sutter, CA) – A fresh fruit & pie destination for decades in Yuba-Sutter – the last two as Stephen’s Farmhouse – has new owners for the first time since 2002. Cherie and Jeff Stephens have announced that Allison and Troy Hickman have bought it and taken over operation already.Cherie writes in a social media post…
(Yuba-Sutter, CA) – The state yesterday announced 11 more communities joining the so-called “Prohousing Designation,” making theme eligible for funding incentives and additional resources through state grant programs to speed production of housing.Yuba County is included in that list of eleven new prohousing jurisdictions, bringing the state total to 22.A community achieves the prohousing designation…
(Nevada County, CA) — A campaign is being launched with a goal of reducing deadly fentanyl overdoses. The Nevada County Public Health Department launched “Know Overdose Nevada County” yesterday.At least 15 organizations received training from the county on how to distribute Narcan, the medicine that reverses opioid overdoses.
(Truckee, CA) — The Tahoe National Forest in Northern California will become the beneficiary of an agreement between a state and national forest agency. The nearly 120-million-dollar grant will go towards reducing wildfire risk.The agreement means the National Forest Foundation will fund the treatment of the North Yuba Landscape Resilience Project, a project that manages…
(Yuba-Sutter, CA) – April is Distracted Driving Awareness Month and the Yuba City Police Department has announced they’re ramping up distracted driving enforcement, particularly, motorists violating California’s hands free cell phone law.YCPD also notes that other distracted driving violations include, “talking with passengers in the back seat, eating, grooming, reaching for something that fell on…
(Yuba-Sutter, CA) – At their meeting yesterday, the Yuba Water Agency Board of Directors voted to allocate $1.8-million to the Browns Valley Irrigation District. The money will be used to upgrade and modernize its hydropower facility at Collins Lake Virginia Ranch Dam.They also moved forward with plans to relocate Yuba Water’s current headquarters “from an…
(Oroville, CA) – An Oroville pedestrian hit by a vehicle on Nelson Avenue Saturday night and hospitalized, has died.The unidentified woman was crossing eastbound at Nelson and 2nd Street .Drugs and / or alcohol are not suspected and the driver remained on the scene.
(Sacramento, CA) — It has been over one year since the deadliest shooting in Sacramento’s history. Families and local activists gathered Tuesday in the downtown area to mourn for their loved ones and call for an end to gun violence.The mother of one of the victims said the shooting was dismissed as a gang shooting.Six…
(Nevada County, CA) — One of possibly the largest snowpack in state history was recorded earlier this week. The California Department of Water Resources said on Monday the measurement shows possible record setting snowfall this year.The survey was conducted at the agency’s Phillips Station in El Dorado County. DWR’s manager of the Snow Survey unit…
(Yuba-Sutter, CA) – Yuba County is providing an update and more specifics on the road work in Linda, which began yesterday at the intersection of North Beale Road & Feather River Boulevard: Daily construction activities will take place from “approximately 7am to 5pm” initially at that location. Then, “somewhere around mid-April” work will begin moving…
