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(YWA release) — Yuba Water Agency engineers are meeting with approximately 60 Yuba County middle schoolers this week as part of a new pathway program to expand engineering education opportunities for Marysville Joint Unified School District students.“We already have many of these courses, like robotics and coding, at some sites and we have started expanding…

(Roseville, CA) — A planned Sacramento State University extension in Placer County would include a crime lab.The Sacramento State Placer Center is slated to be built on 301 acres of land just northwest of Roseville. It will feature academic buildings, a library, a conference center, a performing arts center and a forensic science lab, which…

(Yuba-Sutter, CA) – CHP Yuba-Sutter reports last Friday, heading into the holiday weekend, an alarming number of DUI arrests were made, with nine people taken into custody for driving under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs.A press release notes that 9 DUI arrests in Yuba-Sutter “is far above the daily average for our office.”Four DUI…

(Lake Oroville, CA) – The Department of Water Resources has once again opened the Lake Oroville spillway to create flood storage space. That means levels on the Feather River will be somewhat higher than the last few weeks.Current releases are in the 10-14 thousand cubic feet per second range, with inflow as high as 30,000…

(Oroville, CA) — Eastern Butte County and southwestern Plumas County saw a rare tornado warning on Monday. The warning lasted less than an hour and expired at 4:30 p.m.At about 3:40 p.m., the National Weather Service announced there was a thunderstorm detected near Oroville Dam that could produce a tornado. But, it doesn’t appear that…

(Yuba-Sutter, CA) – The Sutter County DA has issued a press release informing that 38-year-old Adrienne Rose Maloney of Yuba City, who was arrested January 27th following a fatal DUI collision, is now charged with 2nd degree murder & DUI/alcoholic beverage causing injury or death.The collision occurred at 4:05 in the afternoon on South George…

(Yuba-Sutter, CA) – The Yuba County Sheriff’s office reports they received a call late Wednesday morning from an employee at the Linda Walmart, reporting the discovery of a card skimmer in their self-checkout aisle.According to a media release, the responding deputy is investigating the origin of the skimmer. That will include a review of all…