City News

Illegal bush trimming? October 24 “East side of the pond near [the] bird sanctuary, large tree down blocking the bike path.” “Vehicle parked in bike lane.” October 25 “Male on a ‘jump’ bike was stopped in area where plants are overgrown and carrying a bag. Subject looked at reporting party’s neighbor and fled on bike. […]

Energy provider is looking to own transmission and distribution infrastructure within Yolo County Valley Clean Energy Alliance, the electricity provider for the City of Davis, recently proposed a $300 million bid for the assets owned by Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) within Yolo County. The goal of the proposal is to transfer control of the […]

Representatives from UC Davis, city council, county board of supervisors hosted a yearly meeting on campus, special focus on student housing efforts An annual public meeting between county, city and university representatives was hosted at the UC Davis Genome Center Auditorium on Oct. 17, during which officials discussed the measures currently underway to address a […]

City of Davis seeks public opinions about Draft Downtown Plan The City of Davis released the Draft Downtown Davis Specific Plan and Draft Downtown Form-Based Code for a 90-day public review and comment period, starting Oct. 14 until Jan. 14, 2020. The public can submit their comments through the online comment form.  The plan will […]

Punishable laughing, music-playing, grass-burning October 18 “Male threw a backpack on trash can and walked off.” “Subject knocking on doors claiming to be PG&E.” October 19 “Vehicle horn honking for past 20 minutes.” October 20 “Reporting party was turning from Rite Aid — a subject jumped on the truck and fell off.” October 21 “Three […]

Davis PD arrested a man in connection to at least one of five recent armed robberies in city After warning the community of a string of similar armed robbery incidents over the past couple of months, Davis police announced the arrest of a man connected to at least one of the five crimes.  Davis police […]

Strange creatures, tree problems October 10 “Large [tree] limb down, partially in the roadway, reporting party put a cone out.” “Tree branch blocking left-hand lane.”  “Aggressive dog off-leash chased reporting party and her dog.” October 12 “Subject selling hairless creature in plastic tub.” “Subject at door claimed to be from PG&E and asked to see […]

County detention center will no longer be used to house teenage refugees as of January 2020 The Yolo Board of Supervisors decided against renewing the county’s contract with the Federal Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), agreeing to terminate a decade-long agreement to house unaccompanied refugee teenagers in the high-security Juvenile Detention Facility (JDF) in Woodland, […]

Davis City Hall to hear on issues concerning student debt A town hall meeting held on Oct. 9 revolved around a discussion of potential strategies to cancel student debt. The event, held in the Art Annex at UC Davis, was open to Davis community members and groups led by California for Student Debt Cancellation — […]

The National Weather Service issued a High Wind Advisory for North Central California that expired at 11 p.m. on Sunday night. Conditions are expected to continue into Tuesday, when another wind front will reach the Davis area. “The wind advisory was allowed to expire, and tomorrow should be fairly calm,” said Sierra Littlefield, a meteorologist […]

Try having a conversation while riding a bike October 4 “Male speeding and forcing vehicles into cone area.” “Vehicle parked facing wrong direction.” October 5 “Employee set off alarm.” October 6 “Loud sorority party occurring at this location for the past few days, current complaint of loud music, singing and screaming.” “Subjects drinking and yelling, […]

Some members of the public present at the meeting questioned whether the vehicle  was best use of city funds The Davis Police, with the unanimous support of the city council, has been approved to acquire a new Armoured Rescue Vehicle (ARV), which will cost the city $138,000 plus sales tax. Davis Police said that the […]