Yolo County Local News

Learn more about the new Yolo County evacuation alert system and take steps to protect yourself and your family against fires and floods.

Despite a decrease of 15% compared to the last count in 2022, the number of homeless veterans in Sacramento County remains high.

Find out how your ballot is processed after it is delivered to the Yolo County elections department, and how your votes are verified, counted and certified.

Learn how you can join the Yolo Bird Alliance for the annual Christmas Bird Count on Sunday, December 15.

Learn more about how the just-passed $10 billion climate bond measure will fund resiliency projects across the state.

Learn more about the annual fundraising day on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, this year falling on December 3.

Join the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 7143 in Esparto on Veterans Day November 10 to enjoy some BBQ and learn more about accomplishments in the community.

The invasive Aedes aegypti mosquitos have been detected in more areas of Santa Clara County, prompting officials to hold meetings to discuss their response to the threat posed by the species. 

Sixty years ago, I was a reporter for the Klamath Falls (Oregon) Herald and News and with my family lived in a small house on the Link River, which flows out of Upper Klamath Lake, draining a large portion of the Cascade mountain range.

THE SALINAS VALLEY is the setting for fecund soil, labor rights movements and John Steinbeck novels.Squeezed into one 90-mile-long wedge between the Gabilan and Santa Lucia mountains, the valley’s residents constitute less than 1% of Californians but have shaped the identity of the whole state.

Low counts of spawning salmon could mean another year without fishing. Experts say the outlook still has time to turn around.

Homeless Californians face many barriers to casting a ballot, even in elections that affect their lives. Some counties and nonprofits are trying to boost turnout.

California motorists buy and consume a billion gallons of gasoline each month and are very sensitive about pump prices, which are markedly higher than those in other states. Naturally, they are a political football.

A strain of bird flu that imperiled California poultry and cattle has jumped to people. In humans, the symptoms are mild and the virus has not been transmitted among people.

Proposition 33 on local rent control and the related Proposition 34 are attracting the most campaign cash by far of the 10 ballot measures. But the amount pales to what was spent on dueling sports betting measures in 2022.

The Davis Vanguard Q&A with the candidates running for the District 2 seat on the Davis City Council in the November election.

Learn about the Yolo Bonus Bucks program which has distributed over $900,000 in healthy food to Yolo residents in need.

An introduction to Maria Roa who was hired as a community service officer with the Woodland Police Department.

Sign up for the Yolo Bird Alliance field trips on November 2 and 10 with experts to view local and migrating birds.

Growers support a federal and state proposal for operating California’s massive systems that send river water south. But it could harm more salmon and other endangered fish.