Nevada County Sheriff’s Deputy Damian Norden was driving home from work the night of March 12, 2018, when he spotted an object in the road, a booster seat on the shoulder and a vehicle with […]

Emotions run high in medical settings — and higher in some places and times than others. When I was working in a county hospital decades ago, the sheriff found it necessary to maintain a substation […]

After declaring the dip into dispensaries a success, Nevada City is looking to allow its cannabis industry to expand. The City Council on Wednesday directed staff to work on an amendment to its cannabis ordinance […]

Nevada County’s law enforcement agencies agree: incarceration is not the right tool for every call that lands someone in jail. The question is, how do they divert calls for service that are often ultimately mental […]