Placer County Public Safety Articles

California grants school boards much local control, but recent events have pushed the state to take steps to stop local school board meetings from turning into potentially dangerous culture war battlegrounds.

According to the district, Placer had 65 positive mosquito samples and 11 positive dead birds as of Monday. Positive detections have been confirmed in rural west Placer, west Roseville, Lincoln and Newcastle.

A Placer County Superior Court judge granted a classified Sexually Violent Predator, William Stephenson, conditional transient release into Placer County.

Climate change caused by human use of fossil fuels is the major reason California wildfires have burned 172 percent more land than they would have over the last five decades, according to new research.

The Auburn City Fire Department received an equipment upgrade this week, thanks to a donation from the Mother Lode Model T Club.

A yearlong investigation shows that a $100 million-a-year rehabilitation program for former California prisoners grew with little oversight from the state corrections agency. It's unclear how many parolees wind up back in prison.

Marie Heilman of Winters, who is happy to be alive, wants people to guard against mosquitoes and the deadly virus they carry.

Rocklin Police reported they have experienced a higher-than-normal amount of incidents, including illegally parked vehicles, loud music, fireworks and exhibition of speed (cars doing donuts) in the area of the park, which has views that span the area foothills.

The $1,276,837,090 budget is $55.6 million - or 4.6% - higher than in fiscal year 2022-23.

Gov. Gavin Newsom poured ‘unprecedented’ money into homelessness, but providers say his use of one-time grants does not allow for long-term solutions to the state’s biggest crisis. That's what happened in Grass Valley.

CAL FIRE has suspended all burn permits for outdoor residential burning within Alpine, Amador, El Dorado, Eastern Sacramento, Nevada, North-Eastern San Joaquin, Placer, Sierra and Yuba counties.

The suspension takes effect Monday at 8 a.m. and affects all residential burning within the State Responsibility Area of Nevada, Yuba, Placer and Sierra counties.

You have to be 18 to get divorced in California, but there’s no minimum age to get married. Child marriage survivors protested at the state Capitol, but the Legislature likely won’t act until next year.

Gov. Gavin Newsom took to his Twitter account to propose an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would regulate gun sales and use nationwide, in a way that courts cannot change.

Placer County agencies gathered at the Emergency Operations Center in Auburn for an annual training to ensure their unified command is ready for critical events.

California is unwinding the prison-building boom of the 1980s and 1990s. The cuts are falling on small towns that banked on government jobs to anchor their communities.

More than 4 percent of death penalty convicts have been wrongfully convicted, data shows. But courts including the U.S. Supreme Court have failed to provide protections for the innocent facing death at the hands of the state.