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A young black bear climbs in a small water trough to cool off.
Wild turkey cooling off in a sawed off wine barrel filled with nice damp potting soil - I was planning on planting some catnip later this evening.
Juvenile Western Bluebird grabbing breakfast at the mealworm feeder.
Pride flag on Nevada City's City Hall
Map of PG&E power outages showing 48,085 customers out in Placer County, 10,565 out in Nevada County and 6,052 in El Dorado County.
A black bear hearing the camera shutter and looking to see what is going on. Seeing a human, the bear booked it down the hill. Smart bear!
Great Blue Heron perched in a Ponderosa Pine tree. Not pictured, the pond the bird was keeping an eye on.
Musician and songwriter Artemis Arthur will be live at 1:30
Thanks to the Nevada County Board of Supervisors for the resolution proclaiming April 9 as Local News Day in Nevada County. Representatives from local media holding copies of the reso for a group photo.
Cover photo of Molly Fisk’s latest novel in verse “Walking Wheel”
Barfing Red Shouldered Hawk on a black oak branch.
Sign at a bus stop in Nevada City reading "To whoever left their journal & book here, it is SAFE! Both are located across the street at SPD, at the Cusromer Service booth, Have a great day! =)
Oil drum, cable drum floating in the Yuba River after the penstock failure above the Colgate Powerhouse in Yuba County.
Sierra Nevada Red Fox. Photo courtesy CDFW Wildlife Biologist Team
Red aurora borealis seen to the north of YubaNet HQ on Jan. 19, 2026
Boil Water Notice for Downieville, Calif. residents. Torrential rains and power outages cause the town's water tank filtration systems to be overwhelmed.
Radarscope loop showing precipitation coming in on Jan 2, 2026 around 6:00 pm
Statewide power outages on Xmas 2025 at 7:00 pm.
Map showing the total number of power outages in California as of 6:00 am on Christmas Day. 165,370 customers ar out of power.
Harvy, the office kitty is not quite ready to hunt turkeys. She did not like being woken up for a photo.
Part of the flock of turkeys visiting YubaNet HQ every day.
Gray squirrel on a ponderosa pine.
Aurora seen from Nevada City CA
Red aurora seen from YubaNet in Nevada City CA
Rock Creek in Nevada County, after the first substantial rain. The granite boulders are draped with leaves in fall colors.
Nevada County cumulative results 2024 general election
Pink shark costume with a sign reading “grandma Shark against fascism” Photo by YubaNet
Nevada City has a bike bus every Friday. Here's this morning ride, with local police cars escorting the kids and parents on their ride through town.
A Nevada County High School student operated a backhoe at the Trades Expo, placing a tennis ball on top of a traffic cone with the excavator shovel. Wow
Highway sign reading left arrow Truckee and. Below, with a right arrow ‘Navada City’
YubaNet’s Pi bench overlooking the river canyon after the first real rain since May. The sun, just coming up, highlights the trees in their brilliant greens.
Cooper's hawk looking for breakfast, sitting on a wooden bench near a catnip plant.
The better the grub, the faster the tail wags? Say hello to the piglets from the NJUHSD Ranch who made the trip to the #NevadaCountyFair
Tractor Beat - a 1947 tractor at the Nevada County Fair
Rock Creek in August - little water but a lot of nature
Skerryvore concert start
This juvenile black bear grew up around here and stops for a drink of water pretty regularly. Today, it was spa time. I guess we need a bigger tub...
Near surface smoke forecast for Friday, July 11, 2025
This is a smoke forecast model; it is NOT an official air quality forecast. The official Air Quality forecast for California can be found here: AirNow (fire.airnow.gov)
Mount Lincoln cam 062125
Tanker drop on the Serendipity fire in the North San Juan area.
Sign reading “They’re eating the checks, they’re eating the balances
Nevada City Bike Bus - students, parents and teachers bike to school on Fridays
Start of Pride flag raising in Nevada City
Map of power outage in the Nevada City/ Grass Valley area. 21,053 customers out of power.
Harvy, the home office guardian!
May 1 protest in Nevada City, CA. 300+ people lining both sides of the Broadstreet overpass
A ground squirrel loudly complaining about [insert topic of choice]
Hands off protest in Nevada County, CA
Tornado Warning for Central Yuba County in central California and West central Nevada County in northern California until 3:15 pm. At 224 PM PDT, a severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado was located near Timbuctoo, or 14 miles west of Grass Valley, moving east at 15 mph.
The lobby of the Rood Center
Thirty-one separate outages are affecting 967 customers in western Nevada County. Broken poles in Nevada City took out 251 customers in the Pioneer Park area, Greenhorn area has 103 customers out, Peardale 81 customers, 75 along Hwy 49 and Maranatha Place, 54 in Alta Sierra, 41 in Alta Sierra Ranches, and so on. There is no restoration time yet.
Six-day precipitation forecast through Wednesday.
Today was "Wear Red" day, a tradition initiated several years ago by Supervisor Sue Hoek. Everyone posed for photos in front of the Blue Star Memorial By-Way plaque, with Wolf Creek in the background.
The entrance of Nevada City's city hall, now the City Hall Art Meets the Public (CHAMP) Gallery
Operations briefing map for the Palisades Fire on Jan. 21, 2025