Placer County Public Health is reporting a total of 5A cases of COVID-19 including one person dead last week.A The county has also declared a local health emergency and proclaimed a local emergency to ensure public health professionals have all necessary tools at their disposal to keep the community safe.…
The city of Auburn has hired a polling firm to poll citizens in Auburn about their opinion of raising the sales tax in the city to fund police, public works and fire department costs for the future. The firm of Flint, Spriggs and Babb have been hired at a fee…
Placer County Public Health officials reported Monday that a Placer healthcare worker has tested presumptively positive for COVID-19, the coronavirus disease which began in China in 2019. This is the first confirmed case in Placer County. The Placer County individual is a North Bay, Vacavalley Hospital healthcare worker who had…
A capacity crowd attended a meeting at Old Town Pizza in Lincoln last night to hear officials of the Placer County Transportation Planning Agency address the projects that are in planning and or under construction stages in South County. The projects outlined have direct effect on the cities of Roseville,…
A former Department of Homeland Security in the Obama Administration was found dead of a single gunshot wound near Plymouth in Amador County on Friday. Philip Haney, 66, was a whistle blower who criticized the Obama administrationas handling of terrorism matters. He was found on the ground near his vehicle…
The Tow Truck Crash last year on the Highway 50 bridge over the Sacramento River that killed the owners of the towing company has finally been cause reported by the CHP. A year-long review by investigators determined that the tow truck driver failed to properly merge with a 70-foot-long big…
The Sacramento City Council approved unanimously yesterday an ordinance to ban all homeless camps up to 25 feet away from all levees, however, did not address downtown street or public building encampments. City staff had recommended a much broader ban, but the council did not execute it. Staff recommended an…
The crash of a vintage plane in Auburn on January 24th was probably caused by an engine failure, according to preliminary reports from the National Transportation Safety Board. The Stinson Vultee V-77 vintage aircraft took off from Auburn Municipal Airport at about 9:45 a.m. and witnesses said the engine backfired,…
The McClatchy family, owners of the second largest Newspaper chain in the USA has filed for Bankruptcy protection. The paper, suffering for some time from growing too fast and taking on debt through merger, has finally surrendered control to debtors and will begin the process of reorganization. The McClatchy chain…
The City of Citrus Heights Last night started the process of what to do with the location and age-old popular Sunrise Mall location. The city is trying to create a plan for the 100-acre site to take it to the next level of use. The Project is called a Sunrise Tomorrowa …