(Oroville, CA) – The Butte County Sheriff’s office reports that the search continues for 25-year-old George Wright of Oroville. Wright escaped on foot after a deputy spotted him driving on Table Mountain Boulevard at Cherokee Road, at around 6:00 Saturday morning, and attempted to pull him over, as he has several felony arrest warrants for…
(Yuba-Sutter, CA) — Extreme heat is in the forecast for California this week. An excessive heat watch is in effect from Tuesday morning through Thursday evening for much of Northern California, with Wednesday expected to be the hottest day.A system of high pressure is coming from the Pacific — mainly from the tropics — and…
(Sacramento, CA) — California healthcare workers will be seeing a bump in their paycheck, but they’ll have to wait a bit longer. Governor Gavin Newsom signed the one-month delay to California’s new 25-dollars hourly minimum wage for health care workers on Friday.Under the new law, the pay increase will take effect July 1st instead of…
(Sierra County, CA) – The Sierra County Sheriff’s office reports they are looking for Joshua Paulin “believed to be in the Dobbins area” according to SierraDailyNews.com. Paulin is wanted in connection to a reported break-in and burglary at the Telegraph Mine. The mine’s owner tells investigators two men were stealing tools and fled when he…
(Yuba-Sutter, CA) – The Sites Reservoir Project has received another infusion of federal funding with the U.S. Department of the Interior announcing yesterday a $67-million commitment.Although that brings the total of federal & state pledges to a total nearing a billion dollars or so, it’s less than one quarter of the projected $6.4-billion costs for…
(Sacramento, CA) — California is bracing for the first heat wave of the year. And it’s coming earlier than usual. Temperatures are on track to soar ten to 15 degrees above normal next week, from Wednesday through Friday in the Sacramento Valley, including the Yuba-Sutter area.National Weather Service meteorologists say a system of high pressure…
(Sacramento, CA) — A former California professor will spend time behind bars for starting multiple fires that blocked firefighters responding to the 2021 Dixie Fire. Gary Stephen Maynard, a former criminal justice professor at Sonoma State University, was sentenced Thursday to five years and three months in prison, three years of supervised release and ordered…
(Yuba-Sutter, CA) – At their meeting Tuesday, the Sutter County Supervisors followed the County Administrator’s recommendation and voted unanimously to approve a hiring freeze.Sutter County is operating at a budget deficit projected to reach $12-million by the fiscal year 2027/28, according to The Appeal-Democrat. Exemptions to the hiring freeze will be made “as needed in…
(Paradise, CA) – Paradise officials, responding to “substantial feedback” are adjusting the schedule to the monthly test of the town’s early warning siren system.Instead of the first Saturday of every month at noon, the tests will now be conducted on the 15th of every month, at noon, regardless of what day of the week it…
(Richvale, CA) – The Butte County Coroner has released the identity of the identity of the pilot killed in a crash in Richvale Tuesday afternoon just before 2:00: 63-year-old Hugh Mattingly of Chico.Cal Fire, medical personnel and deputies responded to numerous calls reporting the crash at the Richvale Airport and that the pilot was trapped….
