By Nancy Pasternack/ADnpasternack

She labored in tobacco fields one North Carolina summer, just to buy a navy blue stitched-down pleated skirt she had spotted in a store window. At 13, Lynn Williams — formerly Mary Lynn Lominac — already had a taste for clothes far beyond her...

For those who plant, harvest and process local farm products, the changes may appear to have been gradual. But in a single generation, global positioning systems technology and computerized automation has revolutionized many quaint, slow-moving local...

Marysville City Manager Walter Munchheimer hopes turnout for the second of two scheduled “community conversations” will be livelier than the first. One person attended Wednesday’s talk at Covillaud Elementary School. Munchheimer, who took over...

A Yuba City man who was wanted by police in connection with several felony crimes was taken into custody after a brief pursuit Wednesday that ended with an attempted swim across the Feather River. John Thomas Robertson, 52, fled from police at about...

Marysville and Marysville Police Officers Association have reached a tentative contract agreement after nine months of fractious negotiations, stalemates and legal complaints. Retroactive to Jan. 1, the new 18-month contract calls for an end to...

More local veterinarians will have to pitch in and help in order to combat persistent problems with stray and abandoned pets and feral cat colonies. That is the consensus among animal welfare advocates and rescue groups. Spay/neuter surgery prevents...

The penned bulls on either side of him don't care for company. Showboat's grumpy, his trainer says. And Jack Daniels After Party? "He don't like anybody," says Gene Melton, who manages Circle T Ranch & Rodeo of Keatchie, La. But Asteroid, the 2012...

With its human population nearing 100,000, Sutter County soon will be subject to a law requiring that pets undergo spay or neuter surgery prior to adoption from its animal shelter. The US Census estimates the county had 94,919 residents in 2010....

Some lucky breaks in the weather have Sutter Animal Services Authority officials optimistic that the new animal shelter's construction can be completed by the end of July. The $5 million regional facility on Garden Highway in Yuba City will replace a...

As the oldest of four children raised by a single mother, Reyes Segura might have had a difficult time believing he could attend college. But while in middle school, the Yuba City High School student discovered a program called Advancement Via...