Quincy Trojans host Biggs Wolverines, Portola Tigers seek first win, and Nevada Union Miners face Placer Hillmen in upcoming games.

HoBo Ranch, a small-scale family farm in Sierra Valley, offers botanically dyed wool, flowers, and fresh eggs.

Loyalton Grizzlies triumph over Chester Volcanos, while Quincy Trojans and Bear River Bruins face defeat in local football games.

Yuba Water Agency funds Camptonville Community Partnership for a biomass plant to process forest waste and reduce wildfire risk.

Explore Draco, a constellation rich in mythology and celestial bodies, visible near Vega this week.

NASA's DART mission successfully redirected an asteroid, proving the feasibility of altering hazardous asteroid trajectories.

Tom Nicholson used ground-penetrating radar to identify 40 burial spots in Downieville Cemetery's Pauper’s Graveyard.

The late spring and early summer months are the best time to observe the constellation named after Hercules, the mythological Roman hero famed for his strength and courage while subduing monsters, bandits, and criminals.

In 1983, George Lucas released “The Return of the Jedi,” and President Reagan proposed creating a system designed to protect the U.S. from any nuclear bombs the Soviet Union might send our way via intercontinental ballistic missiles.

Throughout this month, Mars and Saturn will be visible in the eastern sky during early morning hours, before 05:30.

Spring is an excellent time to view the Big Dipper in the northwest sky soon after sunset.

Once promoted by Carl Sagan to Johnny Carson on the Tonight Show, the idea of traveling through space via a reflective “sail” - powered by the momentum of photons radiating out from the sun - continues to command attention.

This past Monday evening, 4/15, the Board of Directors for the Sierra Valley Groundwater Management District (SVGMD) met for their regularly scheduled monthly meeting at the Sierra Christian Church in Beckwourth.

After taking flack from a subscriber for not carrying any information about the total solar eclipse crossing a large swath of the U.S. early this week, I decided our readers could use plenty of advance notice for upcoming moments when the moon casts a shadow on the Earth.

Here is the sequence of the eight main Moon phases: