Tuolumne County News

Due to the high degree of smoke in the Mother Lode region the 2008 Tuolumne County Youth Track Meet set for a 6:15pm start Tuesday at Dunlavy Field at Sonora High School has been postponed indefinitely.

The Tuolumne County Sheriff's Department is facing a six percent or $1.07 million reduction in its 2008-2009 budget.

Tuolumne County officials arrested a man and woman they say are suspects in several recent burglaries in the area.

Sonora & San Andreas, Ca -- The continued Public Hearing of the Mountain Springs Community Project will highlight the Tuolumne County Board of Supervisors meeting on Tuesday.

Columbia could become home to transitional housing for families struggling to get on their feet following a zoning change agreed to at Tuesday's Tuolumne County Board of Supervisors meeting.

A 27-year-old man could face felony charges next week after being arrested late Wednesday in connection with an armed robbery in which two people were fired upon, police said.

The summer sky is blue again, after about a week of unhealthy, smoky conditions due to fires started from lightning strikes in the area.

Beginning Monday and continuing through Wednesday, Old Priest Grade will be closed to traffic between 8am and 3:30pm so that the Public Works Department can perform shoulder grading.

Barren hallways, locked doors, empty stairwells and a lifeless waiting room. This is the new reality of the red brick building off South Washington Street, formerly known as Tuolumne General Hospital, exactly ...

The renewal of a contract to provide medical services to inmates in the county jail led to far-reaching discussion at the June 24 Tuolumne County Board of Supervisors meeting.

Earlier today, the Tuolumne Narcotics Team made its first marijuana eradication of the year as 12,800 plants were discovered off Marshes Flat Rd.

The mother of the murder victim and the wife of one of the accused stood talking Monday morning on the steps of Tuolumne County's 110-year-old courthouse.

A Tuolumne County husband and wife are back in jail after authorities say a handgun and materials to manufacture methamphetamine were found at their home.

Fires in Tuolumne and Calaveras counties, sparked by lightning storms Saturday, continued to burn Monday, blanketing the Mother Lode in a haze of heavy smoke.

Shoeprints led police to quickly arrest two teenagers on suspicion of burglary in Jamestown over the weekend, the Tuolumne County Sheriff's Office said.

The North Mountain and Oliver fires are a long way from being fully contained. Effective Thursday evening the North Mountain Fire in the Cherry Creek Drainage of south Tuolumne County was covering 1,228 acres ...

Seasoned residents know the threat of forest fires to home and private property, as well as to the forest areas we all enjoy.

CA) -- A Modesto husband and wife are dead after a motorcycle crash near Strawberry in Tuolumne County Monday afternoon.

An attempt to persuade the state Corrections Standards Authority to increase funding for Calaveras County's new jail has failed.

The Central Sierra Arts Council voted quietly earlier this month to eliminate the executive director position.