CHP reported that a motorcyclist died Friday after his 2001 Suzuki motorcycle failed to execute a curve on Lake Vera Purdon Road in Nevada City and tumbled down a steep embankment. A 69 year old Gary W. Wallace had been reported missing on Friday to the Nevada County Sheriffas…
Sixty Four year old Phillip Ingram of Auburn was found guilty on two counts of second degree murder on Friday by a placer county jury. The conviction stems from a deaths of two 15 year old boys, Jaren Gaches and Trevor Keller, A struck by a vehicle driven by Ingram…
Several areas have been found and cleaned up by Auburn Police that had been tagged as homeless camps. Three camps were found on Union Pacific Railway land. A new camp was found off Auburn Folsom Road near Pacific Avenue and two new camps were found at the end of Herr…
A hot weather forecast and high winds arriving this weekend have placed the area into a high wildfire alert situation. Because of the hot weather and the 4th of July holiday, officials are concerned that many people will head for the rivers and lakes and are sending cautions messages particularly…
Placer County District Attorney Scott Owens has announced that the charges against 7 men from the bay area that were arrested on May 28th at the Sun Splash Water Park in Roseville and charged with inappropriately touching your girls while swimming, will be dropped. The DAas office stated that after…
Folsom residents are complaining about the new late night service by light rail from Sacramento. A The new service has only been available for 10 days, but neighbors are saying that homeless people from Sacramento are using it to come to Folsom and set up all night camps near the…
A 23 year old man from Colfax drowned in the South Yuba River yesterday after getting caught in rocks, according to the Nevada County Sheriffas office. Authorities have identified him as Mario Benassi. He was swimming with friends at about 3 PM in the river where highway 49 crosses when…
The Placer County Supervisors voted unanimously yesterday to approve next yearas budget of 939.6 million dollars, an increase of 73.4 million dollars higher than last yearas budget. A The budget protects core operations, services and programs, continues to fund capital infrastructure projects prioritized by the Board of Supervisors and maintains…
Auburn residents living on the rim of the American River Canyon are expressing concern over a plan to build new campgrounds in the Auburn State Recreation Area. The campgrounds would be built along the American River in the Auburn State Recreation Area, near the city of Cool. In a public…
PG&E, reacting to the state CalFire officials accusing them of being responsible for a majority of the Napa Wild Fires last year, are not exercising a plan they announced earlier this month that they will cut power to homes when a wild fire breaks out. The first incident occurred yesterday…