Yolo County News

Davis illegally imposes high sewer fees on residents to subsidize treatment of wastewater from city government facilities, a Davis group alleges in a newly amended lawsuit.

The salmon swam out of the rice fields Wednesday, and they came out fatter than ever.

Davis-based Blue Oak Energy, which designs, builds and maintains photovoltaic systems in the United States, has completed installing a 4.2-megawatt solar facility in the Butte County community of Gridley.

It was like a scene out of a movie.

Life was perfectly fine at Good Faith Ranch in West Sacramento, where Patrick the spotted horse once grazed, lounged and entertained his human companion, animal writer Gina Spadafori.

Two people died Thursday morning in a fiery collision on Interstate 80 reportedly caused by a big-rig driver who briefly lost consciousness while choking on food, according to the California Highway Patrol.

The teenager facing hate crime allegations in the brutal March 10 beating of a Davis man saw his bail increased nearly sevenfold to $520,000 Wednesday as prosecutors detailed his alleged victim's injuries.

Former Yolo County prosecutor Clinton Parish will face a State Bar Court judge in July on ethics charges stemming from mudslinging in his failed campaign for the Yolo bench last spring.

How do you make a robot throw Frisbees? That was what 1,000 students from 53 high school teams tried to figure out Saturday as they competed in the Sacramento regional Ultimate Ascent robotics competition at UC Davis.

Prosecutors want to increase the bail and move up the arraignment of the Davis man held in an alleged hate attack, calling him "an extreme danger to the community."

The Davis City Council approved rate hikes late Tuesday to pay for the Surface Water Project that will draw water from the Sacramento River, supplementing the groundwater the city has long relied upon.

A woman filed a claim against West Sacramento this month for "negligent supervision" of a former city police officer alleged to have sexually attacked her and five other women while on patrol.

The public is invited to a meeting today in West Sacramento to learn about a plan for two massive water diversion tunnels in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.

The name of the woman who drowned last week inside a vehicle that went into the Sacramento River has been released.

West Sacramento, the ambitious and fast-maturing city on the banks of the Sacramento River, is pursuing a high-rise waterfront hotel.

The new veterinary medicine research facility at UC Davis brings together many programs that were scattered across the campus

Davis police made an arrest Thursday in connection with the brutal beating of a Davis man that investigators are calling a hate crime.

West Sacramento is looking for a new leader for its Police Department, following the announced retirement of Chief Dan Drummond.

The body of a 58-year-old West Sacramento woman was found Wednesday afternoon inside a vehicle that went into the Sacramento River hours earlier.

A terrifying experience – including being airlifted by helicopter off Half Dome – inspired Katie Kolesar to fulfill an unlikely dream.

Police are asking for help in an investigation into a crash that injured a Woodland driver and a 5-year-old passenger.

Jacquelyn Moore, principal at Davis Senior High School the past three years, will not return for her fourth, according to Davis school board leaders. They say they will soon start a national search for her successor.

The family of the West Sacramento man killed last September when he was struck by a police cruiser during a high-speed pursuit has filed a wrongful death claim against the city.

Christopher Reynolds is not your average music fan. He holds a doctorate in Renaissance music from Princeton, sings choral music and owns a life-size cutout of Elvis Presley.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has cited a primate research center at UC Davis for "failure to provide adequate veterinary care" in the deaths of 19 monkeys, most of them infants, in 2009 and 2010.

A West Sacramento man who was shot by a police officer when he reportedly tried to grab the officer's gun during a domestic dispute late Monday is in police custody and recovering at a local hospital.

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