Nevada County Local News

The Tahoe Regional Planning Agency has selected Kimberly Chevallier as the agency’s deputy director and chief partnerships officer, filling a position left open when the Governing Board chose Julie Regan to lead the agency,

The Nevada County Board of Supervisors approved Truckee Fire Protection District fee changes that apply to residential and commercial properties.

One of the greatest skiers to come out of the Tahoe area, Travis Ganong, 34, says this will be his final season competing on the Stifel U.S. Alpine Ski Team.

California lawmakers thought they cracked the code last year on a construction union stalemate holding up housing bills. But rifts within labor could reignite the war over how best to craft affordable housing policy.

To support disaster response in areas affected by severe winter storms, Governor Gavin Newsom proclaimed a state of emergency in the counties of Amador, Kern, Los Angeles, Madera, Mariposa, Mono, Nevada, San Bernardino, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Sierra, Sonoma and Tulare.

Truckee Donner Public Utility District and Truckee Fire Protection District are joining forces to encourage community “adopt” a fire hydrant this winter.

The Incline Village General Improvement District Board of Trustees talked over a number of items related to the district’s budget and received multiple presentations.

The Nevada County Board of Supervisors took the next steps to bring broadband technology to Grass Valley, Nevada City, Truckee and unincorporated areas. The fiber optic lines will be underground wherever feasible.

“Blackbird,” released Feb. 28, will be available in local bookstores and online. Carson’s column, “Joyful Aging,” appears monthly, and readers may also know her as the leader of the 2004 Nevada County Meltdown.

Wildlife Ecology Institute was awarded $236,000 to assist in the recovery of the endangered canine in concert with state and federal agencies and Sequoia and Kings Canyon national parks .

Public transit is a lifeline for low-income Californians, and the key to realizing reduced carbon emissions. But the state’s major public transit agencies are facing myriad issues and are looking to state lawmakers for a solution.

Thousands and thousands of DVDs line the shelves and walls at Nevada City Video. Owner Debbie Atwell-Tavares, turned her love for the movies into a business in 2010. Just 13 years later her store is the only one of its kind for 100 miles in every direction.

Incline Village’s Inclined Burgers and Brews has expanded to the Village at Northstar Resort, and owners Mitch Penning and Scotty Beck are thrilled to bring their laid-back mountain lifestyle to Truckee.

A $4.4 billion project on the Sacramento River to add dams and store more water that will be sent south, the Sites Reservoir is still years away from completion. The final environmental report is expected this year.

Late at night a cell phone lights up, its ring alerts one of several volunteers from Tahoe Nordic Search & Rescue—a lost skier is in need of help.

New legislation supported by U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) would enable the USDA Forest Service to retain some fees paid annually by ski areas and use it for local projects.

Hospice of the Foothills, a provider of nonprofit hospice care in greater Nevada County, is marking the first anniversary of its popular Gift and Thrift Store in Grass Valley.

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife and many wildlife rehabilitation centers have received reports of sick and dead band-tailed pigeons from locations along California’s Central Coast, the San Francisco Bay Area and Sierra Nevada foothill communities.

The race to replace Sen. Dianne Feinstein is shaping up to be a close contest between two congressional colleagues who have built national profiles but appeal to different generations of Democratic voters.

A new Stanford-led study shows that about a fifth of all Sierra Nevada conifer forests are a “mismatch” for their regions’ warming weather. These “zombie forests” are likely to be replaced other tree species after one of California’s increasingly frequent catastrophic wildfires.