Rocklin News

The Golden State Athletic Conference Board of Directors announced today that William Jessup University will become the league's ninth member beginning with the 2014-15 season.

The new state Department of Motor Vehicles office in Roseville is scheduled to open Monday, June 24, officials said.

The fate of Horizon Charter School and its 2,700 students is in the hands of Western Placer Unified's school board after allegations of fiscal mismanagement and complaints from parents.

Large homebuilders are snapping up the available lots out there, with plans to build on them as soon as possible.

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The City of Rocklin is in the process of creating a Transition Plan which will be used as a guide for making improvements that will facilitate accessibility by removing physical impediments from the right-of-way and improve current levels of services in our policies, programs and procedures to the extent to which the create barriers to ... (more)

Assembly Speaker John Perez, D-Los Angeles, gives a thumbs down as he votes against a proposed Republican amendment to one of the state budget "trailer bills" Friday, June 14, 2013 in Sacramento, Calif.

The Beat, the independent Sacramento music store that has been a fixture at 17th and J streets for nearly 20 years, has failed to find a new home and plans to become an online-only operation.

One of the nation's largest homebuilding trade shows has honored William Jessup University for its $37 million expansion project last year.

PlacerArts is pleased to announce the acceptance of Placer County's high school California Arts Scholars into the prestigious 2013 California State Summer School for the Arts .

By adding locally caught crawdads and music headliners such as Grammy nominee Elvin Bishop, organizers of the 2013 Isleton Cajun & Blues Festival have revamped their efforts, putting an emphasis on local food and premium entertainment for this weekend's events.

Rocklin Unified School District officials chose not to tell parents when a school bus driver was arrested on suspicion of molesting a child.

For the first time since the new President of Sierra College came on board and with the promise of increased funding to Community Colleges placed in the state budget, Sierra College has taken a shot at creating a new 20 year master plan for school development.

New-homes sales are about 10 percent ahead of last year at this time in the Sacramento region, according to new figures released Tuesday by the North State Building Industry Association.

Intense heat sickened at least 15 people, two critically, at a morning graduation ceremony today at Del Oro High School in Loomis, forcing the event's cancellation and sending a handful of spectators to local hospitals.

The Placer County Water Agency Board of Directors is accepting letters of interest from prospective candidates to fill the unexpired term of former PCWA District 2 Director Alex Ferreira, who retired on June 6. The individual appointed to the vacancy by the PCWA Board of Directors will serve the remainder of the term ending December 5, 2014.

The fire initially broke out at 9:45 p.m. Wednesday at the home on Midas Avenue and High Street, but it reignited around 5 a.m. Thursday.

A Placer County-based church is both looking to share a building with William Jessup University and find some land of its own for a new church in Roseville.

Alex Ferreira, Placer County Water Agency District 2 Director, will retire from the Board, due to health reasons, effective at the Board's meeting on Thursday, June 6, 2013.

A Dr. Pepper parody of manly 1970s nature-inspired beer commercials was filmed in El Dorado County in March and has been running in strong rotation ever since.