El Dorado County Local News

On August 31, the American Legion Post 119 hosted a 100th birthday party for World War II veteran Ray Groves.

The bankruptcy court approved the sale of radio stations KRLT and KTHO to Rothschild Broadcasting for $275,000.

Lawmakers approved two bills to allow some community colleges to provide bachelor’s degrees in nursing. That’s setting up another conflict with the California State University, which already offers these bachelor’s degrees.

Under a pilot program mandated by California AB1981, jurors in El Dorado County will receive a stipend for jury duty of $100.

A $6,000 donation for new playground equipment was presented to the Boys & Girls Club of Lake Tahoe by the The Optimist Club of South Lake Tahoe and the recently formed Junior Optimist Club of South Tahoe High School.

California has allocated more than $20 billion to alleviate the state’s homelessness crisis since Gavin Newsom became governor in 2019, but there’s precious little data on how the money was spent and what effect it’s had, other than the number of unhoused people has continued to climb.

The California School Dashboard makes it hard for the public to see how schools and districts are performing over multiple years, concludes the report's lead author.

Information about how the state’s K-12 students are performing is located on several sites and is difficult to understand, a new report finds.

Inland communities with big population booms will experience the most extreme heat days under climate change projections. The combination puts more people at risk — and many cities are unprepared.

California voters passed Proposition 22 four years ago. The ballot initiative, backed by Uber, Lyft and other gig companies, promised the state’s more than 1 million gig workers new benefits, such as guaranteed minimum earnings, health care stipends, occupational accident insurance and accidental death insurance.

Almost everyone in California has health insurance. That trend reflects about a decade and a half of policymaking designed to expand access to health care. The state’s average uninsured rate has dropped from nearly one in four Californians in 2009 to less than one in ten today.

While the rest of us enjoyed the long weekend, El Dorado County firefighters were called to extinguish several local fires.

A partnership of the Marcella Foundation, MountainHouse and Soroptimist International of Tahoe Sierra worked together to and distribute almost 200 backpacks and school supplies to local students in need.

The ten-year effort to annex the Meeks Bay Fire Protection District into the North Tahoe Fire Protection District concluded with the approval of the Placer County Local Agency Formation Commission in August.

California’s unemployment rate, 5.2% of its labor force in July, is no longer the nation’s highest after months of having that dubious distinction.

CalFire received the first of five planes promised by the federal government, a former Coast Guard C-130 Hercules air tanker.

The Tahoe Resource Conservation District is hosting a workshop on September 19 with information about the Firewise program and application process.

Unable to jam through bills he says will lower California gas prices, Gov. Newsom calls the Legislature back into session.

A large apartment complex in San Rafael’s majority-Latino Canal neighborhood. Latino families in Marin County are far more likely than white families to have trouble making ends meet, a new report finds.

The Legislature is willing to guarantee $500 million annually to affordable housing developers, but with a caveat.