Twenty-Five thousand University of California workers are scheduled to strike today at the Sacramento, UC Davis Medical Center on Stockton Blvd, and UC campuses throughout the state. Other major strike sites include UC San Franciscoas Helen Diller Medical Center, 505 Parnassasus Ave.; UC Santa Cruz, 1156 High St.; and UC…
Development in South Placer County is moving ahead with release of planning and environment reports on the transformation of farmland along highway 65 between Roseville, Rockland and Lincoln. The Sunset Area Plan, which includes an education campus, and a 2200-acre development with 5,600 new housing units to be built to…
Placer county supervisors this week approved a plan that will provide a new 90-million-plus-dollar office building in North Auburn. Construction could begin soon, and occupancy is planned within two years. The building is to house the county Health and Human Services facilities, followed by a Crime Lab and a Tahoe…
A 75-year-old Placer County resident recently died from complications of influenza, marking the first flu-related death of the 2019-2020 season. The person who died had underlying health issues, which increases the risk of severe flu complications. There were nine flu-related deaths in the 2018-2019 season in Placer County. The Centers…
Results from the special election for state representative for area 1, Megan Dahle won with 57.9% of the vote to Elizabeth Betancourt at 42.1%. District one represents 9 northern counties in California including part of Placer county.…
PG&E continues to dominate the news. CEO Bill Johnson is being highly criticized at some of his public statements about the handling of the blackouts that occurred four times in October. Friday, he said to struggling California people they still have their houses because of the blackouts. This has sparked…
President Trump Sunday Tweeter-attacked the top political powers in California, specifically Gov. Newsom and US Congressman Adam Schiff for mismanagement of the forests and mismanagement of water distribution policies as the cause of major wildfire damage in California. The California politicians quickly responded with anger saying that the recent wildfires…
The Nevada Irrigation District meet last week and discussed the possibility of taking over the PG&E distribution system in their district. This is just one discussion of many that are talking place throughout the state by frustrated power users that are disgusted at the management and execution of the four…
The Old Sacramento waterfront Christmas tree is to be delivered on November 4th and placed on K Street between Front and 2nd.A The 62-foot tree is scheduled to have the official lighting ceremony November 27th. The City of Auburnas yearly Festival of Lights parade is scheduled, rain of shine, Saturday…
Placer County Environmental Utilities and Recology Auburn Placer are opening free disposal sites this weekend to drop-off spoiled food resulting from all the power outages. The option lets people dispose of food at the transfer station instead of waiting days for garbage service to pick it up. According to Placer…