The Board also considered a pair of measures that will put a 1% increase in the county’s sales tax before voters in the June ...

DOWNIEVILLE — After meeting with contractors, the Sierra Hardware store in Downieville says that repair work will not require as much disruption to operations as initially thought. The store suffered ...

QUINCY — The incoming Chair of the Plumas County Board of Supervisors, Mimi Hall, laid out her priorities for the coming year in response to an email inquiry from the Mountain Messenger. There are ...

DISTRICT 1 — Congressman Doug LaMalfa, who represented California’s 1st Congressional District in the U.S. House of ...

The return of gasoline pumps and the filling of the gasoline tanks at Downieville Motors was long-awaited good news at the ...

I was thinking about the people we see routinely but peripherally in our lives, such as a doorman, a postal worker, or maybe the familiar face at the cash register in the grocery store. People with ...

AUBURN — Dive teams from the Placer County Sheriff’s Office recovered the body of 40-year-old Eryn VanAcker from the North ...

My Grumman canoe is kept at the water’s edge. We bring our paddles and gear. I am usually muddied and exhausted by the time I ...

Supervisor Lila Heuer presents former Public Works Director Bryan Davey with a resolution of appreciation.

TRUCKEE — A 42-year-old man from Bend, Oregon, died on January 5 after being buried in an avalanche while snowmobiling near ...