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…
The DMV is in the news again today with discovery that they have established a secret, unmarked office located in the Legislative offices in Sacramento that is there to handle elected officials and their staffs, personal DMV activity. The office is staffed from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m A Monday…
The death toll in the Carr Fire has increased by one to total 8 with another firefighter losing his life this morning. Cal Fire confirmed that a heavy equipment mechanic was killed in a single vehicle crash on highway 99 south of Los Molinos, outside the fire area. CHP reports…
The Trump Administration took the first step to end a five year moratorium on the practice of fracking and conventional oil drilling on public lands in California which is triggering alarm bells among environmentalists throughout the state. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management said itas considering new oil and natural…
A close call was reported yesterday when a truck pulled to side of the 49 highway in the American River Canyon and started a grass fire which was close to Auburn. The call came in shortly after 4 PM at the height of the heat of the day, and spread…