Sutter News

Colusa officials approved a new job and a new public works director to fill the vacancy left by the retirement of Patty Hickel - and save the city money at the same time.

Four people have been arrested after a teenage girl said she was raped at a Yuba City residence, the Sutter County Sheriff's Department said.

A 25-year-old man suspected of burglary, identity theft, credit card fraud and other crimes in Butte, Sutter and Yuba counties turned himself over to police Friday in Hawthorne, according to Gridley-Biggs police.

The longtime chief administrator of Sutter County has accepted an offer to become Merced County's new CEO, both counties announced this week.

They play golf together an average of twice a week. "We're partners in life, business and golf," she said.

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

Mary Lee Crooks-Wilson celebrated her birthday at Grazing on the Green, which benefits cancer research.

A man was shot to death in a west Modesto apartment Saturday morning, police reported.

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A California Highway Patrol officer was placed on administrative duties after his arrest on suspicion of spousal assault and child abuse, the CHP said Saturday.

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YUBA CITY, Calif. a " A California Highway Patrol officer has been arrested in Northern California on suspicion of child cruelty and spousal abuse.The California Highway Patrol says 44-year-old Richard Joseph Handwork of Yuba City was arrested Friday at the CHP office in Yuba City on suspicion of inflicting corporal injury to a spouse or cohabitant ...

Tyler Trosin of Folsom had five receptions for 119 yards and a touchdown, and Kori Babineaux of Folsom had six catches for 143 yards and two scores.

Restoring a 24-mile stretch of Feather River levee will require between $165 million to $265 million, years to complete and a vote by landowners in the area to impose a new tax on themselves.

After cycling for six months and covering 6,255 miles in a 14-state cross-country trip from Florida to California to spread awareness about global hunger, Andrew Marinelli finally arrived in sunny San Francisco earlier this month only to be greeted with what's becoming known as the "San Francisco Hello": His bike was stolen.

Tuesday, Butte County supervisors will hear a report on the feasibility and cost of "rehabilitating and restoring" portions of a Feather River levee extending from the Thermalito Afterbay south to Yuba City.

I had the privilege to hear California State Park Lake Oroville naturalist Michael Hubbartt's presentation on the history of the Sutter Buttes, that isolated circular range of volcanic mountains that rise from the flat plains of the Sacramento Valley.

California regulators have levied a $25,000 fine against Sutter Health 's Alta Bates/Summit Medical Center in the East Bay because staff left a ring sizer in a patient's heart during surgery late last year.

The fate of the Colusa-Sacramento River Recreation Area and dozens of other state parks in Northern California could be announced as early as next week.

Bee golf writer Steve Pajak is on a weekly tour of area golf courses with which he is not familiar.