Coloma News

It all started right here in Coloma , when James Marshall found flecks of gold in the gravel of the American River in 1848.

Share + Dec 3, 2009 3:19 pm US/Eastern More Local News COLOMA, Calif. Bloodcurdling screams and a violent attack caused a Coloma resident to call authorities, but when police arrived on the scene, they discovered the disturbance was just the filming of a horror movie, CBS station KOVR-TV reported.

Diego Bartolome and his salsa. When times get tight, make salsa. That's what Diego Bartolome, 10, figured when his mother lost her job in May.

Hawkeye Sharpe has been Santa Claus, a gold miner, a mountain man and a reverend.

A foothills theater that has proved too popular for its premises is again feeling the heat from neighbors and county government.

Officer Larry Canfield is honored with a brick memorial near the scene of his fatal accident.

More than half of California's 279 state parks will see reduced hours, closed campgrounds, cancelled school field trips and gates padlocked several days a week, under a wave of unprecedented new cuts completed Tuesday by the state parks department.

Visitors to Mt. Diablo State Park, Calif. take in the view to the southeast, from the Summit Building, Sunday, March 29, 2009.

A circa 1851 print of Sutter's Mill in Coloma will be presented to officials of Warabi City, Japan in recognition of the city's 50th anniversary.

Residents of a rural area in El Dorado County were told to boil water after a line break.

Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. and the California Arts Council today announced that 42 local arts organizations will be awarded $549,000 to present free or inexpensive public concerts throughout California with funds obtained from a 2003 anti-trust settlement.

Top-ranked alternatives to the historic Highway 49 route through the heart of El Dorado County would accomplish two key objectives, but area residents say they would do little to improve safety or traffic flow.

The California Parks and Recreation Commission will spend $1.9 million in park bond money to relocate and rebuild a replica of Sutter's Mill in Coloma -- considered the birthplace of the California Gold Rush.

Columbus' days of adventure are over but yours aren't! Christopher Columbus was an explorer and we can be thankful that he had the courage to take a journey to help discover the New World here in America.

The dominant color in the busy backyard scene on a recent Saturday afternoon was purple.

'Ghost hunter's guide to California's Gold Rush country' Special to The Union "Full of all the small details and little-known historical facts that make it hard to put down.

El Dorado County Sheriff's Detective cautiously approaches a marijuana garden in a remote area of El Dorado county recently.

Amid dense scrub oak and manzanita high above the Coloma Valley in El Dorado County, the marijuana growers were stocked to subsist in the steep, unforgiving terrain.

J.P. Sesak, left, and Danny Bears of the El Dorado County Sheriff's Department use a line from a CHP helicopter to re- move marijuana plants during a raid last month near Coloma.

With less than 16 months remaining in Gov. Schwarzeneggera s tenure, political pundits are starting to talk about him in the past tense, as if his administration is already over.