Nevada County Local News

Despite efforts by Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass to shelter more than 14,000 people this year, the city's homeless population keeps growing. That does not necessarily mean her signature program is failing. The larger question: How does California measure success?

California is one of the few states that have empowered county grand juries with a civil watchdog function: responding to citizen complaints and initiating their own investigations.

The California Tahoe Conservancy has awarded a $500,000 grant to the nonprofit Wildlands Network, in partnership with Pathways for Wildlife, for a multi-year study of wildlife connectivity in the California side of the Lake Tahoe Basin.

The proposed general sales tax was estimated by city staff to generate approximately $3.4 million and sunset after 10 years. However, public comment was mostly opposed to the proposed sales tax, with the Nevada County Contractors Association and the Greater Grass Valley Chamber of Commerce voicing their concerns.

California ratepayers might have to foot a staggering $45 billion-plus cost to keep the aging Pacific Gas & Electric Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant online beyond its slated 2025 closure, an Environmental Working Group analysis finds.

There’s a possible rise of four invasive animals in California—another consequence from downpours last winter and spring. The California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services warned about a potential population surge due to storm-related flooding.

Thousands of Californians died from opioid overdoses in 2021. In response, many communities are making it easier to obtain life-saving overdose reversal drugs while some families are calling for tougher criminal penalties for fentanyl dealers.

California’s experimental new program targets methamphetamine addiction by rewarding patients with gift cards for negative drug tests.

The Department of the Interior announced the distribution of $24,881,884 to the state of California today as part of the $295,582,830 granted this year from the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) to all 50 states, U.S. territories and the District of Columbia.

The California Department of Conservation released a draft list of orphan wells it proposes to be permanently sealed as part of the first wave of such projects that will be supported by state and federal funding.

Volunteering in late life is associated with better cognitive function—specifically, better executive function and episodic memory. Those are the findings of a new study from UC Davis Health.

The inaugural Nevada County Pride Festival 2023 event is free and open to all, with a suggested donation at the door from 1 to 10 p.m. on Aug. 6 at the Miners Foundry.

Gov. Gavin Newsom said the state will spend $4.5 million on free legal services for undocumented workers involved in state investigations of wage theft or other labor violations. The lawyers can help with their immigration cases.

The lack of enough places for everyone to live has sent coastal rent prices inland, removing large swaths of previously cheaper rental units.

Luis Yauri Oyola hopes one day to buy a tractor to start a business in Peru; he estimates that he is six years away from that goal, for which he will have spent more than a decade of his life living thousands of miles away from his family. He is on call 24/7 and doesn’t leave the job site except for necessities.

Rise Ben Mossman has been found guilty of 13 environmental crimes in British Columbia. It’s unclear how his September sentencing will influence the Nevada County Board of Supervisors, which is expected to hold hearings on plans by Mossman’s company to reopen the Idaho-Maryland mine.

Sound Check Music Center on Maltman Drive in Grass Valley is closing its doors after 17 years. “It’s one of those businesses that the internet has absolutely killed,” Pete Welty, owner of Sound Check Music Center said.

Thirteen Republican state attorneys general have sent a cautionary letter to the CEOs of the 100 largest U.S. companies, highlighting the potential legal ramifications of using race as a factor in employment practices.

Rick L. Callender, president of the California/Hawaii Conference of the NAACP, has announced that the organization is offering free legal advice and consultations to public and private sector employees who have been targets of racial harassment and discrimination.

After five years of success crafting all-naturally fermented hard kombuchas, Gold Vibe Kombuchary in Grass Valley is ready to branch out to other realms of the beverage industry.