El Dorado News

El Dorado County has awarded the Lake Tahoe South Shore Chamber of Commerce a $90,000 grant to implement a geotourism program, according to a press statement from consultants GeoSierra.

Ralph Thomure, the Proposititon 36 Coordinator for the Progress House Inc., left, applauds the progress of Proposition 36 participant, Tracey Daniel of Kelsey.

The pilot of a single-engine aircraft was killed when the plane crashed just after take-off from the Lake Tahoe Airport on Sunday afternoon, authorities said.

Last year, 205,145 high school students took the SATs in California. Of that group, only 50 students received a perfect score of 2400, according to the College Board.

Audio Archive > KXJZ's Insight > Insight: Sac Sheriff's Cuts / Wildfire Defense / El Dorado / Sound Advice Insight: Sac Sheriff's Cuts / Wildfire Defense / El Dorado / Sound Advice Sac Sheriff's Cuts - The Sacramento County Sheriff's Department may have to lay off even more deputies than it originally expected.

Officials have eradicated two marijuana gardens with about $25 million in crops from a rural spot in El Dorado County.

El Dorado County Animal Services officials are looking for owners of two dogs who bit two people early this week in separate incidents.

Emergency responders have pulled the body of a man in his twenties out of the American River near Coloma.

El Dorado County is tapping the star quality of local residents and entrepreneurs in a bid to draw worldwide attention to its natural, historical and cultural riches.

El Dorado County Sheriff's deputies have discovered and destroyed a massive outdoor marijuana garden in El Dorado Hills that spanned over three miles of property.

Tylar Marie Witt, the 14-year-old accused along with her boyfriend of killing her mother, showed little emotion as she appeared in a Placerville courtroom Monday morning.

The El Dorado Irrigation District may tap the Internal Revenue Service for help funding several small hydroelectric projects.

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A 14-year-old California girl and her 19-year-old boyfriend were being sought Wednesday in connection with the slaying of the girl's mother, police said.

A 14-year-old girl and her boyfriend are arrested on suspicion of stabbing her mother to death for disapproving their relationship.

El Dorado County employees can avoid furloughs if their departments find other means to meet their share of $2.4 million in cost reductions needed to balance the county budget for the coming fiscal year.

"This is just horrible, horrible." Richard Lavallee shook his head when he remembered all the nice things Joanne Witt would do for co-workers at the El Dorado County Department of Transportation.

Investigators say an El Dorado County teenage girl and her boyfriend, suspected of killing the girl's mother, may be hiding in the Bay Area.

A 14-year-old girl and her boyfriend wanted in connection with the murder of the girl's mother in El Dorado County have been arrested in San Mateo County.

A new bill circulating through Congress will include funding priorities for construction projects across El Dorado, Placer and Sacramento Counties including Folsom Lake Crossing and interchanges on Highway 50 and Interstate 80.