Nevada County

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. Nov. 9, 2010 - The Center for Biological Diversity filed suit today challenging the California Fish and Game Commission’s decision to deny state Endangered Species Act protection to the Pacific fisher, a rare, forest-dwelling ca...

Squaw Valley USA November 10, 2010 - Action snowsport photography and video from around the world highlight the 15th annual In The Mood, a free benefit event for the Tahoe Forest Cancer Center, Wednesday, December 1, 2010, at Resort at Squaw Creek. Th...

Nov. 9, 2010 - In honor of Veterans Day, Thursday, November 11, 2010, the Bureau of Reclamation’s Central California Area Office will waive day use fees at New Melones Lake for for all visitors. This is a small gesture in honor of the men and women ...

Our son’s “challenge” word in spelling this week was “potato,” which he managed to spell correctly. I congratulated him and told him the story about one of our vice presidents — Dan Quayle of Indiana — who couldn’t spell the word correctly in 1992. (William Figueroa, 12, was the boy who knew how to...

Last election season, you’ll remember I mentioned the parody Twitter account to ridicule me anonymously. Some of it was funny, but other parts disclosed private, personal information about other family members. That was not so funny. This latest election season, someone has anonymously signed me up for a never-ending number of magazine subscriptions using...

“Watch George W. Bush’s PR video for his book — Decision Point — below,” writes newslinemagazine.com. “He seems to be smiling and smirking in all the wrong places as he reads from his teleprompter.”

A Pacific Gas and Electric Co. executive in charge of the utility’s SmartMeter program admitted Monday to using a fake name in an effort to join an online discussion group of SmartMeter foes. “William Devereaux, senior director of the $2.2 billion SmartMeter program, used the name ‘Ralph’ when he sent an e-mail to the...

NEVADA CITY, Calif. November 9, 2010 - The Nevada County Elections Office released updated election results on Monday afternoon. With 41,791 ballots now counted as opposed to 29,911 ballots counted on election night, Tina Vernon leads her opponent Dai ...

“For the third year in a row I have been approached by the appointed department heads representing 18 positions to voluntarily forgo the 4 percent scheduled increase for July 1st,” according to the county executive officer in his weekly memo. “They previously had given up 3 percent each of the last 2 years. This...

“Tony Loverde is among the millions of American military veterans we will honor Wednesday,” begins The Union’s editor/publisher’s column about the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy this morning. “He served his country honorably for more than seven years, including two deployments to Iraq as a staff sergeant for the United States Air Force.” It...