State Officials announced yesterday that marijuana cultivation and excise tax collections hit 48 million dollars during the period of April to June, while representing a jump over the prior three months, is still way below expectation as to tax collections. Finance officials had estimated California would bank $185 million from…
Sean Matthew Walker, 36, of Rocklin has been arrested in connection with the crash Friday on westbound Interstate 80 in Fairfield. Walker was behind the wheel of a Chevrolet pickup truck that killed CHP Officer Kirk Griess, 49, and motorist Jaime Bueza Manuel, 46, during a traffic stop near Manuel…
A couple of fires occurred over the past few days in Auburn. Monday at 3:40 am an alarm was sounded on a fire in an abandoned office building on Highway 49 and Cottage Drive in North Auburn. Firemen arrived to a fully engulfed building and quickly brought the blaze under…
Four masked men entered the Apple Store at the Galleria last night at about 8:12 and stole 20 iPhones, 2 macbook pro computers and one iPad mini pads. Police said the men were not armed, and no one was injured in the incident. There have been a string of…
The Auburn Police Department has gone Hi-Tech. A newly installed license plate reader camera was used over the weekend in Auburn, and late evening Saturday, snapped a license plate at Auburn Folsom Road and Indian Hill intersection, and triggered an alert to officers that the vehicle was registered as a…
Nevada County’s first medical cannabis dispensary is set to have its soft opening Thursday. Elevation 2477′ received its license to throw open its doors in Nevada City last week, after a lengthy permit and build-out process that began a year ago. Owners say that Thursday will be a soft opening…
California State Parks and the California Department of Public Health have issued a warning to visitors who visited the Auburn State Recreation Area to seek immediate medical attention if anyone encountered a rabid bat earlier this month at the Mineral Bar Campground.A Placer County health officials notified the state agencies…
The Nevada Street Sidewalk, bike lane and road improvement project is back on again. Auburn City Council will consider bids at tonightas council meeting. Gabe Mendez Inc. on Newcastle – the contractor on the first phase of the project – came in with the low bid of $4.34 million. McCuen…
The City of Auburn and the United Indian Community have been awarded a 2 million dollar grant from Cal Fire to fund extending a shaded fuel break 300 feet wide along the American River canyon from the Foresthill Bridge to the southern edge of the city of Auburn. A share…
Rocklin Unified School District appears to be preparing for a possible strike. The association placed a paid advertisement in the Sacramento BEE asking for substitute teachers to work at $425.00 a day. A dispute has risen to the boiling point between the teachers association and the Rocklin Unified School District…