(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…
(Yuba-Sutter, CA) – The Yuba City Police Department reports the recovery of a stolen vehicle – with the assistance of the LoJack Reporting System. The consumer-purchases electronic system also provided to law enforcement, produces an alert tone when a stolen vehicle is equipped with LoJack activated. The tone gets louder and faster as an officer…
(Oroville, CA) – After reaching just shy of 861 feet on March 17th, The Department of Water Resources has now increased releases out of Lake Oroville to as high as 36,000 cubic feet per second for several days to create flood control space. The releases should reduce the lake’s level down to 856 feet by…
(Manteca, CA) — Three of the four people killed in a crash on Highway 99 near Manteca were U.C. Davis students. The university confirmed the identities of the three students on Monday.The California Highway Patrol says Friday morning’s crash was the result of a chain reaction involving several vehicles. Two of the drivers involved, including…
