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(Undated) — Pacific Gas and Electric has warned over 15-thousand Northern and Central California customers of possible public safety power shutoffs beginning tonight due to high winds that increase wildfire risk.Areas potentially impacted include parts of Yolo, Colusa, Glenn, Tehama, Butte, and Plumas counties, with outages possibly extending to 17 counties by Wednesday. As well, the…

(Sacramento, CA) — It may take a while to get the results of California’s General Election. Local election offices will verify that the signatures on the ballots match registered voters to ensure no one votes twice. If there are any issues with a signature, workers will contact voters to confirm their ballots.A new California law…

(Yuba-Sutter, CA) – A silver alert for 78-year-old Donald Haight of Yuba City was lifted yesterday afternoon at 3:23, when he was located by authorities. The alert had been issued at around 4:00 Saturday afternoon, when he was last seen driving a gray & gold 2004 Toyota Tundra. Action News reports the alert had been…

(Yuba-Sutter, CA) – The Yuba County Library reopens today in their new, temporary location, at the Yuba County Government Center, 915 8th Street, in Marysville. The move to this location is due to the library building itself undergoing extensive renovation.Hours at the new location are 9 to 5, Monday thru Friday and closed on weekends.

(Yuba-Sutter, CA) – The Sutter County Children & Families Commission is announcing over $350,000 in grant funding: $170,000 to enhance pedestrian & bicycle safety and $194,000 to promote child passenger safety, both from the California Office of Traffic Safety.The grants will enable the commission to host car-seat checkup events and, “ensure low-income families have access…

(Oroville, CA) – The Oroville Police Department is investigating a series of copper thefts from HVAC units over the past week or so. That includes thefts from the Oroville VFW, multiple merchants in the Las Plumas Shopping Center and Big Red’s California BBQ. In addition to the copper theft and HVAC destruction at the Oroville…

(Sacramento, CA) — A man was arrested near Sacramento International Airport last week with roughly 330-thousand fentanyl pills, according to the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office. Officials estimate this amount could yield up to 15 million lethal doses, enough to kill the Sacramento Metro Area population multiple times over.Sacramento County reported 173 fentanyl-related deaths this year,…

(YCPD release) — The City of Yuba City is proud to be the home of the Annual Sikh Festival and Parade which is held on the first Sunday of November in Yuba City since 1979. The parade and the events leading up to it bring in thousands of people. To help manage the influx of…

(Yuba-Sutter, CA) – Follow up to an early morning accident yesterday, at North Beale Road and Griffith Avenue, involving two big-rigs which KUBA reported on.CHP investigators have ruled out drugs and/or alcohol as factors. However, as much as $100,000 in damage was done to the Gospel Christian Center Church, when one of the big-rigs careened…

(Yuba-Sutter, CA) – In Federal Court in Sacramento, 11 foreign nationals, 9 from Chile, 1 from Peru and another from Venezuela, have been indicted for using blowtorches, heavy-duty power tools and cell phone jammers to commit a total of 29 bank, credit union and ATM robberies.Their total haul amounted to over $4-million-dollars in cash. The…