Politics

Placer has room for single-room-occupancy housing projects

Placer County supervisors moved ahead with plans Tuesday intended to provide more opportunities to develop single-room-occupancy housing for the homeless. The board approved amend ...

Placer eyes allowing single-room housing projects for needy

Considered as a way to help house the homeless, provide work-force housing and give the opportunity to provide four walls and a roof to some of Placer County’s neediest resid ...

Climate- change-conscious Nevada Irrigation District looking at dam options

  Leaders of the Nevada Irrigation District are looking at improving Rollins Reservoir water storage near Colfax and building a new downstream dam on the Bear River as possib ...

Placer County girds for spike in Affordable Care Act enrollees

Placer County is anticipating that 75 percent of its current medically uninsured population will have insurance by 2014. In a presentation to the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, ...

Placer Water considers rate increases

A spike in the wholesale cost of water from Pacific Gas & Electric and an ongoing demand for operational upgrades is spurring the Placer County Water Agency to consider its fir ...

Coffee klatches give Placer supe taste of issues large, small

Coffee and conversation may have been flowing in the Depoe Bay Coffee Co. meeting room. But, the elected official listening intently, responding to questions and comments, and tak ...

Placer supes approve $13.78-a-month North Auburn sewer fee hike

Sewer users in the North Auburn area will be paying another $13.78 a month starting in July, Placer County supervisors decided Tuesday. The decision followed a sometimes-stormy, t ...

Placer Water hosts 50th anniversary event

Financed by the Placer County Water Agency to build the Middle Fork American River Hydroelectric Project 50 years ago, a special 50th anniversary celebration was hosted Thursday by ...

Supes approve South Nevada County seniors project

Nevada County supervisors gave unanimous approval Tuesday to plans for a 345-unit seniors housing project 5 miles north of Auburn. The Board of Supervisors heard from more than 30 ...

Placer supes investing in long-term budget strategy

  Placer County supervisors are now not only sitting down in the coming months to chart out a budget for the 2013-14 fiscal year starting in July. They’ll also be mapp ...