Placer County Business, Economy & Jobs Articles

The Placer County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved the scope of work for the county’s 2050 General Plan update, the comprehensive update to the General Plan since 1994.

The California legislature is readying a $15.5 billion bond issue to address climate resiliency for voters to approve on the 2024 state ballot, after the budget shortfall forced billions in cuts to climate spending.

After weeks of negotiations, the governor and top Democrats in the Legislature say they have a budget deal. Legislators will start voting today on bills related to the agreement, which sets spending and policy across a wide range of issues …

As climate change continues to drive temperatures to new extremes, employees in many jobs face increasing risk of injury and death. Here’s what California is doing to take the heat off workers.

A California child care crisis could be coming if subsidies remain at current low levels in the state budget. Providers say home daycare businesses may need to close if increased help is not on the way.

Zoning laws that restrict new housing development cause environmental damage, racial and class segregation, and force people into cars creating traffic. Now, a new movement wants to abolish zoning in the United States.

The Placer County Board of Supervisors approved the introduction of an ordinance proposing to increase the sewer user fee for Sewer Maintenance District 1-North Auburn (SMD 1-North Auburn).

A popular program doubles CalFresh benefits to buy fruits and vegetables at farmers’ markets. It is among the California food benefit programs on the table in the budget negotiations between legislative leaders and Gov. Newsom.

Palisades Tahoe will implement a traffic and parking solution on weekends and holidays to minimize arrival and departure traffic for the 2023-24 winter season, according to a press release. The resort will introduce a mix of free and reserve-in-advance, paid-parking …

While working on the details of the 2023-24 budget, the council voted in a rare 3-2 split to not set aside $500,000 in next year’s budget for solar at the police station and carport.

Zoning laws determine what can be built and where. These laws have shaped California, but are they really just tools for social engineering? The history of zoning is closely tied to racial segregation, as well as the state's shortage of …

As groups representing landlords and real estate pour millions of dollars into political coffers to influence housing policy, tenant groups are celebrating recent victories.

The Loomis Town Council adopted a 9% garbage fee increase. The town has a long-standing contract with Recology Auburn-Placer for waste collection services and the agreement includes annual "cost-of-doing-business" increases.

State workers' say their lower salaries than the private sector were offset by pensions, better benefits, job security. Is the tradeoff still worth it?

More than 170,000 people are homeless in California. Some Democrats want to make the state the nation’s first to declare housing a human right with a state constitutional amendment, but opponents worry it would be costly.

As congressional factions volley responsibility for pandemic breakdowns, Silicon Valley’s home state leads off a new book about “why government is failing in the digital age.”

Two members from the state’s Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team (FCMAT) reported on their study of Auburn Union School District (AUSD) finances this week, and the outlook for their point-in-time study wasn’t great.

As extra pandemic benefits end, food banks say that they're becoming long-term supermarkets for Californians facing food insecurity. Several bills to boost CalFresh are before the Legislature, but the state budget deficit may get in the way.

A bill to ban caste discrimination in California brings a global conflict to the Legislature. While many South Asian groups support the measure, some say it could backfire.