Yuba County News

A 19-year-old Olivehurst man beat his girlfriend with a jack handle and stabbed her in the leg in front of her 1-year-old son, but she asked a Yuba County judge to put him on probation, according to court documents.

SACRAMENT0 - A man who resides in Brownsville, southwest of Oroville near the Yuba-Butte county line, entered a plea of guilty in federal court to a charge of failing to register as a sex offender.

The latest ranking of the most stressed counties in the United States puts Yuba County in the top 10, though one local observer said the picture is a bit more mixed.

At a street-food event at 111 Minna Gallery last night, fellow vendors wore shirts expressing support for Celebi-Ariner. The wife of detained street-food vendor Murat Celebi-Ariner is hopeful a review of a Deferred Action Request will prevent her husband's deportation to France.

Two Yuba County men and a companion from Texas allegedly bought themselves a ton of trouble late Tuesday - at $1.39 a pound.

This dog and her puppies, in crate at left, were among the 51 canines rescued from a property in Dobbins.

While other water providers are raising rates, South Feather Water and Power is planning to lower rates by 2012.

The upper Yuba River floodplain is in line for better flood protection with the governor's announcement that $47.5 million is headed its way.

A Brownsville man who shot his father during an argument over the family dog was sentenced Tuesday in Yuba County Superior Court to a year in jail.

It was a joyous day for the boyish Vink, the project manager for the San Francisco-based Trust for Public Land, as he recently toured the 595 acres of oak woodlands and 2 miles of river in the Sierra foothills that he and his colleagues had just agreed to purchase and forever preserve.

One woman was killed and three more people were seriously injured in an early morning crash on U.S. Highway 101 in Sonoma County, according to the California Highway Patrol.

A 62-year-old Yuba County man is facing life in prison after jurors found him guilty Thursday of second-degree murder.

Wild Chinook salmon are in the Yuba River. Several hundred have been there all summer long, and just last week, they began to spawn.

Share + Oct 7, 2009 11:02 pm US/Pacific More Local News Yuba and Merced counties have been ranked among the top 10 "most stressed" counties in the country, and many residents aren't surprised by the label.

The mother of a seventh-grade girl has been granted a temporary restraining order prohibiting a female classmate from approaching within 15 feet of her daughter.

Fewer students in western Nevada County and drastic cuts in state money to educate them mean local school districts are being squeezed as never before.

An unlicensed paving company owner that investigators say bilked elderly homeowners out of tens of thousands of dollars pleaded no contest Wednesday in Tulare County Superior Court.

A mountain lion killed near Smartsville this week is not likely to be responsible for a spate of attacks on livestock in the foothills of Yuba County, officials said.

The Sheriff's Narcotic's Task Force has been working with the DEA since the beginning of the year, developing information leading to a number of search warrants being executed, at nine different locations in Nevada County, Yuba County and Sierra County.

A red flag warning for Sierra wildfires has been issued through 5 p.m. Tuesday, caused by conditions that have "explosive fire growth potential," according to the National Weather Service.