Families will have a chance to spend a summer morning fishing at Packer Lake when the annual Packer Lake Kids’ Fishing Day returns Saturday, July 18. The free event is scheduled from 8 AM to 1 PM.

I was fortunate to make longstanding friends at college. When I was dropped off in August 1958 as a freshman at Rutgers, I knew no one and was at a place I had never visited before. As soon as ...

Learning (remembering?) what real leadership and statesmanship are about has helped me--forced me, really--to stop indulging distractions like weariness, sadness and anger and instead renew my ...

The Republicans and President “know it all” are doggedly trying to change the election rules (The Save America Act) by lying about everything. There is no election fraud and Haitians don’t eat cats!

Assemblywoman Heather Hadwick brought ranchers, sheriffs, and rural advocates to Sacramento on July 1 to urge state lawmakers to put more money and more management tools behind California’s gray wolf ...

Fireless Fireworks was created by Ingrid Larson and Dan Farrington in the early 2000s, when they owned the Downieville Grocery; it was a response to the prohibition on fireworks i ...

SACRAMENTO — California’s state gasoline excise tax increased today, July 1, adding 2.2 cents per gallon to the tax drivers pay as part of the retail price of fuel. The state motor vehicle fuel tax is ...

Around 8:40 in the evening of June 23, area firefighters were notified of a large volume of smoke seen north of Clio.

Travelers on State Route 70 near Portola should see fewer construction impacts after Caltrans District 2 announced Tuesday ...

Governor Gavin Newsom signed California’s 2026–27 state budget June 29, approving a $351.7 billion spending plan after ...

The Sierra County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a proposed solid waste fee increase at a special meeting on June ...