Nevada County Local News

United Way Nevada County has received a grant from the California Fire Foundation to fund fire preparedness and prevention programs.

Nevada County will be holding public meetings and soliciting comment via online survey as it considers adoption of an ordinance permitting commercial use of home kitchens.

In their September 10 meeting, the Grass Valley City Council voted to certify the final draft environmental impact report for the mixed-use Dorsey Marketplace.

For five years, California officials responding to the homelessness crisis had to work around one big restriction imposed by the federal courts: Because they didn’t have enough shelter beds, cities generally couldn’t make homeless camps illegal.

California’s inland regions are experiencing dangerous heat waves, exacerbated by rapid population growth. As more people move away from the expensive coastal areas to more affordable inland communities, these regions are seeing significant demographic changes and spiking electricity bills.

H5N1 bird flu has been reported in three California dairy herds.

California’s public schools have a numbers problem —and it’s not just that their students don’t score very highly in national tests of mathematics ability.

More than two-dozen California cities passed, strengthened or are considering ordinances that penalize people for sleeping outside, after the U.S. Supreme Court allowed cities to crack down.

An exclusive CalMatters analysis of the latest California homeless count reveals some good news and bad news: Though the growth rate of homelessness appears to be slowing, the overall number of unhoused Californians increased from two years ago.

A California Strategic Growth Council grant of $500,000 to the County of Nevada and the Nevada County Resource Conservation District will fund a 3-year planning local conservation planning cycle.

CalTrans has updated information of upcoming and ongoing projects along Interstate 80 in the Sierra corridor.

The California state goal to conserve 30% of its land and coastal waters has advanced, with conserved lands reaching 25% and coastal waters 16%.

Learn how the Nevada Irrigation District works with state and local partners to improve forest resilience to wildfires to protect local watersheds.

The Interfaith Food Ministry reminds the community that among other things, September is Hunger Action Month and seeks to raise awareness of those who need food assistance in Nevada County.

Amid a Southern California heat wave, about 300 advocates for rent control — with two 10-foot “greedy landlord” puppets — rallied Thursday in downtown Los Angeles, chanting: “The rent is too damn high!”

The controversial idea of cash reparations divided even Black advocates in the legislature this year. Here’s what’s next.

The Tahoe National Forest is asking for public input as it develops proposals for up to 143 miles of designated Class 1 E-Bike trails.

Lawmakers approved two bills to allow some community colleges to provide bachelor’s degrees in nursing. That’s setting up another conflict with the California State University, which already offers these bachelor’s degrees.

The Sierra Nevada Conservancy awarded $250,000 towards fuel reduction utilizing cultural-burning practices outside Nevada City to the California Heritage: Indigenous Research Project.

California has allocated more than $20 billion to alleviate the state’s homelessness crisis since Gavin Newsom became governor in 2019, but there’s precious little data on how the money was spent and what effect it’s had, other than the number of unhoused people has continued to climb.