El Dorado County Local News: History

Desperate to win elections, state’s GOP embraces voting practices decried by former president as fraudulent.

The longest-serving California senator had a legendary political career spanning seven decades.

Like many small railroad towns in the 19th Century, Truckee’s businesses were strung along a main thoroughfare known as Front Street or Commercial Row. Behind these storefronts was an alleyway identified on the map as Second Street but what locals eventually called Jibboom Street. Jibboom Street was the heart of the hamlet’s Red Light District [...].

Author Stephen H. Provost has released his new book “Sierra Highway: U.S. 395 and El Camino Sierra in California and Nevada (Highways of the West).” The guidebook is a historical travelogue, featuring more than 550 images and is the fourth installment in the Highways of the West series following Highway 395.

Barton Health has assembled a collection of articles to commemorate 60 years of quality and compassionate health care for the community and its visitors.

USDA Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a Sept. 22 presentation by radio personality and historian Don Lane.

But School Boards Association says bill could further inflame tensions between state and local districts

A group of tech investors who want to build a new city in Solano County are following a well-worn path.

Four hydroelectric dams totaling 100,000 tons of concrete will be destroyed by the end of 2024.

Compared to 1939, California has better systems to respond to floods and tropical storms

The nation’s first Air Pollution Control District formed in Los Angeles more than 75 years ago.

Climate change deniers make plenty of arguments against the scientific consensus. Do they have a point?

The roots of the climate denial movement go all the way back to the Cold War.