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Last January, Nevada City resident Joni Vincelette lived her worst nightmare.  Her son Micah Price, a 32-year-old high school teacher in San Francisco, didn’t show

The Nevada County Fair will open next week, after a quarantine year that closed state and county fairs across the country last summer. This year’s

Brett McFadden, superintendent of the Nevada Joint Union High School District, is in charge of most local kids’ high school experience. The district he heads

The man often came into the Grass Valley frozen yogurt shop where Cory* worked, and was obviously flirting with her. He’d place his order, smile,

When considering moving to Nevada City a year ago, I knew about the danger of living in a wildfire zone. But, like dating a really

The Nevada County landscape is scarred by gold mining: the piles of tailings in Empire Mine State Park, the exposed bluffs framing Hirshman’s Pond. But

We’ve all done the day’s drive to Donner, and walked around the rusty iron at Empire Mine. We’ve spent countless open weekends in the same

Smartsville resident Amber Fackrell wanted to be a Boy Scout all her life.  But she didn’t get her wish until 2019, when the Boy Scouts

For many in Northern California, rising temperatures means packing a cooler full of light beer, peeling off the boat cover, and cranking Bad Company as

Tyler “Treetop” Turnmeyer steps out of his dusty van and sets up his portable disc golf basket. He stretches his hands to the sky and