Biden Comes Through for the Monterey Bay Area

Updated Watch Duty page with information about the Crozier Fire which started burning northeast of Placerville on August 7 2024 at 1:21AM.

The El Dorado Community Foundation has opened applications for emergency assistance to evacuees of the Crozier Fire.

El Dorado County is maintaining and updating a webpage with official information about the Crozier Fire. (See article for URL)

A number of Lake Tahoe fire districts are offering free chipping services to encourage home owners to maintain defensible space. (See article to find out how to sign up.)

The second annual Lake Tahoe Comic Con will take place September 14 and 15 at the Tahoe Blue Event Center..

The Cameron Park Community Services District Board of Directors approved a contract to explore annexation of fire services to the El Dorado Hills Fire Department.

The process of crafting a long range plan for meeting affordable housing needs has begun by the El Dorado County Planning and Building Department, with public workshops to be held in coming months.

The new Central Mile Loop Trail is completed and open to public use, as discussions continue around other amenities to be build on the former Executive Golf Course site.

The Tahoe Regional Planning Agency is asking for public participation as it prepares the 25-year Connections 2050 Regional Transportation Plan.

On August 3, a number of volunteers and staff from the Tahoe Resource Conservation District came together to clean up discarded debris in the Johnson Meadow in South Lake Tahoe.

The state’s landlords see rising insurance costs, so they say they’re going to have to raise rents. But they complain about laws that limit how much they can do so.

Some California agencies are offering incentives and hosting workshops for school districts that want to build affordable housing for teachers.

Sky-high rent is among Californians’ biggest concerns. Nearly 30% of tenants spend more than half their income on rent; and the median rent is $2,850 a month, 33% higher than the national average.

Two propositions on the Nov. 5 ballot address this issue — though one does so in a rather roundabout way.

The chemical, used for decades, can harm babies’ developing brains. Farmworkers and people living near fields are most at risk. The EPA issued a rare emergency order.

Legislators are pushing ahead with a retail theft bill package in their continued opposition of Proposition 36 — a November ballot measure backed by law enforcement groups and Republicans (and some Democrats) that would roll back parts of 2014’s Prop. 47.

So many intense wildfires all at once require an intricate chess game for maneuvering firefighters and equipment around the U.S.

A critical new federal audit calls out California for doing too little to prevent fraudulent spending of homelessness funds. Nearly $320 million was at risk.

The Senate appropriations committee sent dozens upon dozens of bills — that have a price tag of at least $50,000 to $150,000 and that may also be politically dicey — to the dreaded suspense file, where many could die quickly on Aug. 15.