El Dorado County Local News

Work is underway to remove thousands of tons of abandoned telecommunications cable from Lake Tahoe. Read on to learn more about how it got there in the first place, and the local champions who fought to get it removed.

Trump has threatened new, higher tariffs on two of California’s biggest trade partners, China and Mexico. The state’s workers and economy could feel the most impact.

Immigration advocates are sounding the alarm over the prospect of mass deportations upending California immigrant communities, which Donald Trump has vowed to initiate when he returns to the White House in January.

California wants to protect witnesses in workplace investigations from deportation, but the Biden administration program for undocumented employees is at risk with Donald Trump’s return to the White House.

Official updated election results from the El Dorado County Elections Department.

Official updated election results from the El Dorado County Elections Department.

President-elect Donald Trump campaigned on implementing a sweeping border crackdown and undertaking the largest-scale deportation effort in history. If carried out, his proposed initiatives will have profound consequences in California, which shares a 140-mile border with Mexico.

Experts don’t know how much gas prices may rise from the revised California climate program, which tightens standards and gives incentives for low-carbon fuels. The board ordered an annual review of the cost impacts.

Unofficial election results as of Friday, November 8 from the El Dorado County elections department.

Learn more about the ceremony honoring veterans which will take place at 11AM on November 11 in Placerville.

A summary of the latest count from the El Dorado County elections office for South Lake Tahoe related candidates and ballot measures as of Friday, November 8.

California’s Senate will reach gender parity, but depending on the outcome of some close contests, that could extend to the whole Legislature.

Newsom wants the new Legislature to ‘protect’ California from Donald Trump on civil rights, reproductive freedom, climate action, and immigrant families. The session will start Dec. 2.

A lot is at stake with the new Trump administration: California’s water projects, its unique authority to clean its air, federal support for offshore wind and disaster aid for wildfires.

A report on the progress of recover of the Eldorado National Forest two years after the devastating Mosquito Fire of 2022.

Learn more about Veterans Day and the ceremony to be hosted by American Legion Post 795 in South Lake Tahoe at 11AM on November 11.

Learn more about snow removal staffing shortages which will affect unincorporated parts of El Dorado County in the coming months.

Applications are open for California Department of Fish and Wildlife Vamos a Pescar grants to support outdoor multi-lingual outdoor programs.

Learn more about how the just-passed $10 billion climate bond measure will fund resiliency projects across the state.

A look at ongoing fuel reduction efforts in the Lake Tahoe region as autumn progresses.