Yuba County News

During these times, getting the most bang for your buck has never been more critical for patriotic Woodland residents who look forward to helping their community while staging their own fireworks display.

An American flag that waved over a French battlefield in World War I was destroyed Monday when fire ripped through the Veterans Memorial Community Center in Marysville, Calif., on Monday.

Yuba County will get its first medical marijuana store within the next week, with a Yuba City man in the final stages of opening a cooperative dispensary in a Linda strip mall.

A former Grass Valley man who said he would not have been convicted of child molestation if his trial had been held in San Francisco rather than Yuba County has lost his legal challenge contending that the state Sexually Violent Predator law was misapplied to him.

An unlicensed contractor already facing Tulare County felony charges was arrested in Chico on Wednesday for allegedly resuming a paving scam that prosecutors say has victimized property owners across the state.

Jun 24, 2009 1:47 pm US/Pacific CBS13 Crime Section Yuba County Sheriff's deputies have arrested a man they say tried to kidnap a nine-year-old girl on Monday night and then drove by her home as officers were investigating the crime.

A 54-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of trying to kidnap a 9-year-old girl as she was walking on Larson Street in Olivehurst, Yuba County Sheriff Steve Durfor said Tuesday.

A Brownsville man shot his father during an argument over the family dog, a Yuba County Sheriff's Department official said Monday.

Avid fisherman Jack Elzer didn't even bother to take his pole during an outing with his wife this week on Jenkinson Lake.

A convicted felon bound for state prison, but mistakenly released by his Yuba County jailers, remained at large late Wednesday night.

A Yuba County official grumbled Monday over Nevada County's recent refusal to help pay for $750,000 insounded a bit too pricey for the neighbors in Nevada County.

Exactly one week after a lawn mower started a blaze in the Lemon Hill area of Oroville, an individual completing brush work Monday afternoon may have sparked a blaze that burned five acres near Bangor.

Bill to ban suction dredging is a move backward ... nevertheless a poor man's wisdom is despised and his words are not heard.

Two Yuba County teenagers died when the car they were riding in rolled over on Plumas-Arboga Road early this morning.

An accused bank robber who was arrested and charged with crimes in Yuba County will be brought to Santa Cruz after his trial in Marysville is over.

Cal Fire firefighters are conducting a training burn Tuesday at Richards Ranch in Yuba County.

If you see smoke in Yuba County Tuesday it's probably from a training burn. Cal Fire's Vegetation Management Program will be conducting the training burn with handcrews, engines and a bulldozer.

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Rancher Tom Richards looked over his 6,300-acre property and envisioned future development and tourism in this area 25 miles northwest of Grass Valley, but nearly an hour away on winding country roads.

A woman from Olivehurst died Sunday afternoon in a hit-and-run accident in Linda when a man in a pickup hit her in an intersection while she was on a bike.