Politics

South Placer jail targeted for early 2014 opening

    The South Placer Adult Correctional Facility is being targeted for a partial opening in early 2014. Placer County supervisors were briefed Tuesday on a Placer Coun ...

Land swap “win-win” for Placer County, school district

  The Placer County Board of Supervisors has approved an exchange of West Roseville properties projected to benefit both the county and the Dry Creek Joint Elementary School ...

Another View: Stop sequestering our kids

Congress’s failure to avoid the sequester is a bitter disappointment. It is unconscionable that Congress has put the burden of balancing the budget on the backs of middle-cla ...

Activists unfurl 100-foot petition banner at McClintock’s office

Student activists, organized by California Fair Share, gathered at Representative Tom McClintock’s district office Thursday to call on him to stop the sequester by closing co ...

Placer County wish lists include money to open South Placer jail, smoother roads

  Everything from opening the South Placer Adult Correctional Facility on a scaled-down basis, bumping up the road-repair budget and building on North Auburn’s Placer C ...

Sen. Gaines calls for investigation into Cal Fire

  In response to recent reports saying the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) hid $3.6 million with the California District Attorneys Associatio ...

FPPC investigating claim against League of Placer County Taxpayers

The Roseville City Council election may be over but frustration over how this particularly contentious campaign season unfolded remains fresh in the minds of one candidate’s ...

Carol Garcia almost reaches maximum campaign spending limit

This was a year of big spending for Roseville City Council candidates, as indicated on final expenditure reports filed Dec. 31. Top vote-getter Carol Garcia just barely squeaked b ...

Gaines wants gun ownership “loophole” closed

AUBURN CA - State Sen. Ted Gaines moved Tuesday to close what he says is a dangerous loophole in existing California law that allows the mentally ill to obtain guns. In the wake o ...

Carol Garcia sworn in as Roseville’s vice mayor

A swearing-in ceremony at Civic Center on Monday welcomed a new face to the Roseville City Council and the ending of a nine-year run of service by one councilman. Bonnie Gore join ...