John Fraser fended off an election challenge to win a third term on the El Dorado Irrigation District board.

With 5 p.m. Friday set as the deadline for submitting comments on proposed new rules providing public access to administrative records of judicial branch agencies, legislative scrutiny of statewide court administration is reaching an unprecedented pitch this week.

Ronald George, chief justice of the California Supreme Court, says of the controversy, "Much of the loudest, much of the shrillest criticism ... from people who aren't fully informed." More Information State court deal nears $2 billion Judges, law enforcement officials and union workers joined together Tuesday to release an accountability plan for ...

Federal investigators have now traced the final minutes of pilot Raymond S. Wieveg's life, right up until the time his Piper aircraft slammed into an Alpine County hillside.

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics is scheduled to release the September unemployment numbers today -- by the time you read this, they may already be out.

Thursday, October 15th, 2009. Issue 42, Volume 9. RIVERSIDE - About $1.4 million in federal economic stimulus funds was allocated to Caltrans to map and inventory archeological sites in Riverside County and elsewhere in the Inland Empire, the Governor's Office announced today.

A 37-year-old Pine Grove, Calif., man was killed Friday afternoon when the 2006 Corvette he was driving ran off the road on Highway 4 and landed upside down in Silver Creek near Graveyard Curve in Alpine County.

Concerned employees filled the audience at a candidate's forum Tuesday night for the South Tahoe Public Utility District board, asking questions about cuts in wages, workforce and benefits.

California Highway Patrol officers are working a fatal accident on Highway 4 near the junction with Wolf Creek Road in Alpine County.

Highly trained color consultants no doubt have at least 1,527 names for yellow. I had three: school bus yellow, submarine yellow and midlife-crisis-Corvette yellow .

Charles Muench is one of the 18 artists featured in the Markleeville Artists Autumn Open Studio Tour, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

The Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation granted more than $20,000 to Barton Health to provide screening and diagnostic mammograms for low income, uninsured or underinsured men and women in South Lake Tahoe and Douglas and Alpine counties.

One person was still missing late Wednesday but two others were found after a massive search for deer hunters who did not come home when expected.

Two teenage deer hunters who went missing in a hunting trip have been found safe in Calaveras County.

Artwork by Jeff Brees is featured during the Markleeville Artists seventh annual Autumn Open Studio Tour.

A group of 18 artists are hosting the seventh annual Markleeville Artists Open Studios Oct.

Alpine County's eighth annual Markleeville Creek Day is 3-6 p.m. Saturday at the Markleeville Library Park.

The Ebbetts Pass Scenic Byway has been chosen as one of six byways nationwide to participate in a study of how scenic byway designation impacts neighboring communities.

Sonora is Alpine County's highest peak at 11,462 feet. Fall is the best time of year to climb the peak by taking the Pacific Crest Trail.

The doors are closed at the California Supreme Court, the tiny courthouse in Alpine County and every state courthouse in between in an unprecedented attempt to close a historic budget deficit.