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Businesses ‘up in arms’ over homeless shelter proposal

  Leslie Brewer has been monitoring how jurisdictions have responded to the state law requiring permanent homeless shelters to be allowed by right in at least one area of eve ...

Reader Input: Ag use views narrow-minded

Narrow-minded nattering nabobs of negativism insist that others should not be allowed to do something because they themselves do not think it should be done. Randall Cleveland (& ...

Reader Input: Rural residents pay price for profiteers

Kudos to Miguel Ucovich for his well-stated letter regarding “Wineries are not community centers,” (Reader Input, Feb. 27). Currently there are several applications w ...

Pig, fowl farm to be shut down

An illegal pig and fowl farm in Loomis is being closed down after neighbors complained of foul odors. The Kuzmenko family, immigrants from Estonia, recently found out that some old ...

Placer County gets cracking on new chicken-raising rules for homeowners

A new urban chicken movement is all about the eggs. But Placer County is embarking on an effort to put revised chicken-raising rules in place that are more about dogs, fee structur ...