El Dorado County Local News

In their May 21 meeting, the El Dorado County Board of Supervisors approved a proposal to develop a permanent homeless shelter on a 1-acre lot on Forni Road in Placerville.

The Sugar Pine Foundation announced that partner agencies and volunteers had planted 16,800 pine seedlings were planted this spring in the Caldor Fire scar area, Buron Creek State Park and around South Lake Tahoe.

A bill to ban homeless encampments statewide near parks, schools and transit hubs failed to get out of the same legislative committee as last year.

After University of California students were arrested or suspended for protests, student workers are striking at three campuses. The Office of President says the strike violates the union contract.

It’s time for the folks in California’s Capitol to play let’s-make-a-deal – or actually, many deals.

Following public workshops and resident feedback, El Dorado County is updating the 10 year County Parks and Trails Master Plan.

An alignment known as a “planetary parade” will march across night skies starting June 3.

California’s governor, Gavin Newsom, flew more 6,000 miles to Rome this month to deliver a brief speech on climate change at a Vatican-sponsored conference.

Two major forces are at play: Gov. Gavin Newsom scaled back his promise of increased financial support for Cal State, while university officials agreed to 5% salary increases earlier this year.

California lawmakers voted to offer an official apology for the state’s role in supporting slavery and moved several reparations bills but let others die.

It’s been almost a half-century since I first heard the term “peripheral canal” uttered by William Gianelli, who was then-Gov. Ronald Reagan’s top water official. The project, in one form or another, had already been kicking around for decades.

As funds for climate change programs are cut, Democrats and environmentalists are pushing for a bond measure on the ballot to restore some funding.

In its May 14 meeting, the Placerville City Council heard a report noting the need to raise water and sewer rates to cover increased costs.

In their May 9 meeting, the Lake Tahoe Unified School District announced the award of a $4.7 million community schools grant, to be used for funding counseling and intervention support programs.

A project to mechanically thin 687 acres along the Pioneer Trail corridor to reduce fuel load.

The job action starting today at UC Santa Cruz isn’t about pay, but instead is in response to how UC deployed police to clear pro-Palestinian encampments on campuses.

The centerpiece of California’s water wars pits Gov. Newsom against local communities and environmentalists. A new report says the benefits of the tunnel exceed the cost since other water supplies would cost more.

The state’s multibillion-dollar shortfall shapes which spending bills survived the ‘suspense file’ hearings by the Assembly and Senate appropriations committees.

As Gov. Gavin Newsom and state legislators spend the next few weeks fashioning a state budget that’s plagued by a multibillion-dollar deficit, they can’t count on a booming economy to make their task easier.

Pending legislation would lift requirements for California’s doctors to report all domestic abuse cases to police. The Assembly’s three physicians had different opinions.