Regional

January 23, 2018 – Fair today with some patchy morning valley fog and drizzle. Stronger Pacific storm impacts the area Wednesday into Friday with periods of moderate to heavy rain, mountain snow and gusty wind. Drier weather over the weekend. Discussion Satellite imagery showing plenty of low clouds and patchy fog still lingering across much […]

January 22nd, 2018 – Shannan Moon has announced two new endorsements of her campaign for Sheriff  of Nevada County. Supervisors Heidi Hall of District 1 and Hank Weston of District 4 announced their support today in a joint statement issued by the campaign. “Shannan’s experience and skill set make her the most qualified candidate seeking […]

January 22, 2018 – Alt-country songstress Lee Ann Womack returns to The Center for the Arts for a concert on Saturday, February 24. Artists don’t really make albums like Lee Ann Womack’s The Lonely, The Lonesome and the Gone anymore. Albums that seem to exist separate and apart from any external pressures. Albums that possess […]

January 22, 2018 – Pacific storm moves through bringing mainly light precipitation. A stronger system impacts the area mid-week into Friday bringing moderate to heavy rain, mountain snow and gusty wind. Discussion The front has continued to work its way slowly southward across interior NorCal overnight. Precip picked up as a weak wave moved onshore, […]

Rising temperatures are projected to shrink the average acreage of Sierra Nevada snowpack by half. – Daniel Walton, UCLA ENGLISH MOUNTAIN, Calif. January 22, 2018 – Both the history and the future of local water appear on this mountain 28 miles northeast of Nevada City. The day Jessica Erickson measured snowpack for Nevada Irrigation District, […]

January 22, 2018 – Sierra Nevada trees have noticed it’s getting warmer, and they are voting with their feet. Seedlings of three species of cold-loving conifers are no longer sprouting and growing in middle elevations where they used to be common, state biologists with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife found. They counted young […]

January 22, 2018 – Nevada Union High School’s Theatrical Dance program presents the 17th annual Student Choreography Showcase on Thursday, February 1st at 7:00 p.m., Friday, February 2nd at 7:00 p.m., and Saturday, February 3rd at 2:00 p.m. in the Don Baggett Theatre, located at 11761 Ridge Road, Grass Valley. This year’s Showcase includes the […]

January 21, 2018 – Pacific storm moves through today into Monday bringing light to moderate precipitation. A stronger system impacts the area midweek into Friday bringing moderate to heavy rain and mountain snow, and gusty wind. Discussion Pacific frontal system approaching the northern CA coast this morning with lowering cloud layers out ahead of the […]

January 21, 2018 – Sierra Roadwork Schedule Sunday through Saturday, January 21-27, 2018. LONG-TERM PROJECTS Interstate 80 (Placer County) from Long Ravine underpass to .2 miles east of Magra Road overcrossing: Roadwork continues for a $50.6 million project to construct 3 miles of additional truck climbing lane and other improvements to primarily eastbound I-80 east […]

NEVADA CITY, Calif. January 20, 2018 – A sunny Saturday greeted some two hundred people participating in Nevada City’s 2018 Women’s March. The group assembled on the Broad Street overpass, then gathered at Robinson Plaza before walking up Commercial and down Broad Street’s sidewalks. The march concluded with music and songs on the overpass. Below […]

January 20, 2018 – It is with a heavy heart that the CHP Valley Division Air Operations Unit reports the loss of retired California Highway Patrol helicopter pilot, Officer JC Dodd, 13315. JC died doing what he loved most, flying helicopters. On Wednesday evening, January 17, 2018, he and four others were killed when their helicopter […]

January 19, 2018 – We mourn the loss of retired Officer Michael Harrison who passed away on December 18, 2017. Officer Harrison served the Nevada City Police Department with distinction for over 20 years after settling in Nevada City. He is well known for his love of the job and of the people he served. […]

January 19, 2018 – To drive through parts of the Sierra Nevada these days is to witness a morbid reminder of California’s extreme drought: Vast landscapes of standing dead trees, a brown tide sweeping across the green landscape. It’s more than eerie; it’s a dangerously combustible situation, argues a new publication from Berkeley fire scientists. […]

Jan. 19, 2018 – Climate change has scientists worried that birds’ annual migration and reproduction will be thrown out of sync with the seasons. Because birds’ songs are correlated with their breeding behavior and are easily identifiable to species, monitoring birdsong can be a good way to keep tabs on this possibility, and a new […]

January 19, 2018 – The Women’s Rights focus group of Indivisible Women Nevada County (IWNC) is presenting a screening of the film, She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry, in honor of the 45th anniversary of the passage of Roe v. Wade. As the Huffington Post notes “it celebrates the creativity of feminist activism” during Second Wave […]

January 19, 2018 – Like many Sacramento Valley rivers, the Yuba was once amazingly productive. Hundreds of thousands of salmon and steelhead would trek up the river each year to spawn, and benefit from the vast riparian vegetation and marshlands that also served migratory birds and wildlife. But with the Gold Rush, came hydraulic mining, […]

January 19, 2018 – Showers and a few thunderstorms will taper off across the region by this evening. The active weather pattern will continue with another system expected to affect the region early next week. Discussion Satellite and radar imagery show the main band of precipitation along the frontal band shifting into central California early […]