With its many modern amenities, Nevada City’s 95959 ZIP code doesn’t seem like it would be challenging for health insurance.

After six hours of testimony and debate Tuesday, Nevada County supervisors sent the Blue Lead Gold Mine use permit back to county planning staff for revisions and a groundwater study. The compromise decision didn’t fully appease neighbors in the Red Dog and You Bet neighborhoods who had filed the appeal and who wanted the county to require a full environmental impact report.

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A California State Senate subcommittee voted unanimously Thursday on a budget measure that includes a recommendation to consider selling off Empire Mine State Historic Park if a suitable buyer could be found.

Mike Miller took the news that the Empire Mine “adit” tourist tunnel he helped build had been scrapped like a dynamite detonation.

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New commuter airline offers members unlimited flights to SoCal from Bay Area.

Up and Under Pub and Grill in Point Richmond turns to Facebook for help.

A change for the better meets with mostly compassion from the town where he was raised.

World-reknown Healdsburg guitar-maker Tom Ribbecke faces 3-week deadline to raise $100,000 or lose 5-acre property seen as site of new master-level guitar teaching center.

Cyrus restaurant's Douglas Keane files lawsuit against Healdsburg Animal Shelter; Shelter Exec Julie Seal has no plans to euthanize Cash, she says.

on April 23, 2010 at 9:44 PM, updated April 25, 2010 at 2:16 PM. Benjamin Brink, The Oregonian Adam Kuby, the artist who designed 35-foot needles for the Portland Acupuncture Project's art installation, pulls the stretchy material over the foam that forms the handle of the acupuncture needle. If public art displays reflect the culture of a city, then the Portland Acupuncture Project depicts a metropolis striving for a healthier, more vibrant version of itself.

The Ross post office, already an unofficial town gathering spot, has become a paper battleground between two sides in the Branson School measure on the March 3 ballot. Opponents of Measure F, which seeks voters’ permission for the private high school to expand its enrollment beyond the 320-student cap, have sent out two mailers in recent weeks: “Vote No on Measure F,” sent in mid-January; and “Five Reasons to Vote No on Measure F,” sent about a week ago.