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(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…

(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…