Nevada City News

Nevada City will be celebrating Mardi Gras all weekend. Festivities include a masquerade ball from 8 p.m. to midnight Saturday at the Miners Foundry , a parade at 2 p.m. Feb.

Slowly but surely, nonprofits and local communities are exploring what they can do to keep open the 70 state parks slated to close on July 1. So far, 10 parks have been removed from the closure list.

Removing 1,201 bags of trash, 493 tires, 21 refrigerators and freezers and five messages in bottles has made the Missouri River free of 60 tons of trash.

Twelve-year-old Young Artists Competition winner Alexis Keller is the featured violin soloist at the KinderKonzert, performing at 11 a.m. Saturday, Feb.

Musicians of Midtown will open with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. today at Gallery 2110 .

NEVADA CITY, Calif. - Valentine's Day can be a time for hearts, flowers and candy, but according to MedlinePlus, it's also a day when approximately 2,800 people - parents, aunts, friends, siblings, uncles, cousins, children and grandparents - will suffer a heart attack.

Jurors started day two of the Kaelin Glazier murder trial with a trip to the Ruch field where Glazier's body was found.

Families will be choosing from a long list of events and activities taking place over Presidents Day Weekend .

The seminar will be hosted by Jennifer Basye Sander, author of "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Getting Published," and Ingrid Lundquist, author of "Results-Driven Event Planning." The seminar will cover editing, book cover design, photo selection, the Espresso Book Machine at the Central Sacramento Library, and crafting a book event.

Friday, Jan. 27 Big Iron plays country rock starting at 9 p.m. at Ava's Lounge, 3129 Penryn Road, Penryn.

Song birds take flight. It looks like The Birdhouse house concerts are back at the Forest Ranch home of David and Kerry Eldridge.

The Assistance League of Whittier dressed at least 50 new babies born at Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital in brand new outfits through its Wee Wardrobe Program of Assistance League's Auxiliary.

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Nevada County and North Lake Tahoe serves at-risk children from Nevada City and Grass Valley to Truckee, Kings Beach and Tahoe City.

All over the globe, Sweet Adelines International choruses are joining together to teach the world to sing.

Happy 2012! As everyone knows this is a popular time of year to get fit and drop pounds.

Grass Valley businessman Robert Brewer shot this photo as he was flying last week over his house on Scotts Flat Lake, east of Nevada City.

Marysville's the Bethel AME Church Choir sang to a crowd of more than 250 at the Miners Foundry Monday in Nevada City in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.

A Nevada City man faces charges of driving under the influence and driving on a suspended license after allegedly using false registration stickers on a vehicle, police say.

Sealing a deal announced just before Christmas, private equity investment firm Thoma Bravo LLC has completed the acquisition of Telestream, Inc., a Nevada City-based provider of high-tech video systems and one of the area's most prominent tech-businesses. The price of the deal was not disclosed, as both companies are privately held.

Join the Bear Yuba Land Trust for a fascinating evening with local Alan Stahler as he shares images and stories from space, 7 p.m. Jan.