Yolo News

First 5 Yolo announced this past week plans to give $2.5 million to local organizations, which will help expand critical services for young children in Yolo County over the next three years.

The State Public Works Board approved Friday the preliminary plans for the new Woodland Courthouse, allowing the project to go into the next step of working drawings.

NeighborWorks America awarded $505,000 to the Sacramento/Yolo Mutual Housing Association for building new housing in the two-county region and rehabilitating existing housing.

Elizabeth Topete weeps as she watches her brother, Marco Topete, being escorted by deputies from the courthouse following his sentencing on Tuesday in Woodland.

The Yolo County Sheriff's Office, Animal Services Section is asking for the public's help in attempting to identify and locate a dog that bit a man in Davis last Thursday.

In December, Francesca Wright of the Davis Consultant Network stood once again before the First 5 Yolo Children's and Families Commission and told them her research validates the positive and important effect First 5 Yolo dollars have on children 0 to 5 years of age.

A remarkable partnership project recently made great strides in eradicating a potentially devastating infestation of Ravenna grass from some 70 miles of Cache Creek in Lake and Yolo Counties.

The Yolo County Library system and the Woodland Public Library now offer the Kill-a-Watt meter, a device that measures household appliance energy consumption.

For people ages 65 and older who no longer drive, Yolo County has a special household hazardous waste program that collects antifreeze, old household batteries, paint and other waste materials from seniors' houses.

The Legislature should not meddle in the internal affairs of the judiciary. A bill headed to a vote in the Assembly on Monday would do exactly that, and should be rejected.

A Yolo County jury has convicted a Vallejo man of robbery and assault with a deadly weapon in the theft of an iPhone.

Experience: Candidate for California Assembly in 2008 and 2010; former trustee, Esparto Unified School District; former chair, Yolo County Republican Party; former director, Yolo County Taxpayers' Association In a redrawn 3rd Congressional District home to numerous farms and two Air Force bases, Esparto farm family member and Marine Corps veteran ... (more)

Yolo, the local affiliate of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, announces its flagship event of the year - The Pat Williams Mental Health Dinner, set for Thursday, Feb.

Joyce Lee plays a game with her sons Dylan, seated, and Gabriel. Says Lee of her new role teaching a parenting in crisis class, ""Whenever I teach child development classes, it's always really important to me for it to be really real." Wayne Tilcock/Enterprise photo The Yolo Family Service Agency offers low-cost counseling to Yolo County ... (more)

Maybe it was Mother Nature's way of determining how much hay Duane Chamberlain might sell this year, but Thursday night's light rain was the only damper on an otherwise celebratory evening.

While the Sacramento area's unemployment rate was unchanged for December, Yolo County saw its unemployment rate increase to 13.2 percent.

According to a news release from Beth Gabor, county manager of public affairs, 2-1-1 Yolo is a telephone information and referral line that can help residents find services related to food, housing, employment, health care and counseling.