El Dorado County Local News

Learn more about the annual fundraising day on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, this year falling on December 3.

The invasive Aedes aegypti mosquitos have been detected in more areas of Santa Clara County, prompting officials to hold meetings to discuss their response to the threat posed by the species. 

The El Dorado Board of Supervisors have approved certification of the environmental impact report necessary to begin work on replacing the Bucks Bar Bridge.

Sixty years ago, I was a reporter for the Klamath Falls (Oregon) Herald and News and with my family lived in a small house on the Link River, which flows out of Upper Klamath Lake, draining a large portion of the Cascade mountain range.

You are invited to apply for a seat on City of South Lake Tahoe commissions and boards and participate as a citizen advisor to government.

THE SALINAS VALLEY is the setting for fecund soil, labor rights movements and John Steinbeck novels.Squeezed into one 90-mile-long wedge between the Gabilan and Santa Lucia mountains, the valley’s residents constitute less than 1% of Californians but have shaped the identity of the whole state.

Low counts of spawning salmon could mean another year without fishing. Experts say the outlook still has time to turn around.

Homeless Californians face many barriers to casting a ballot, even in elections that affect their lives. Some counties and nonprofits are trying to boost turnout.

California motorists buy and consume a billion gallons of gasoline each month and are very sensitive about pump prices, which are markedly higher than those in other states. Naturally, they are a political football.

A strain of bird flu that imperiled California poultry and cattle has jumped to people. In humans, the symptoms are mild and the virus has not been transmitted among people.

Learn more about how you can cast your ballot if you missed the October 21 voter registration deadline.

Local nonprofit Bread & Broth is asking the community for donations to support their annual Thanksgiving dinner.

Reports of threats by several homeowners in South Lake Tahoe are being investigated as potentially criminal voter intimidation.

Proposition 33 on local rent control and the related Proposition 34 are attracting the most campaign cash by far of the 10 ballot measures. But the amount pales to what was spent on dueling sports betting measures in 2022.

A look at career and technical education options at South Tahoe High School.

Not content with just saving lives and protecting property, South Lake Tahoe firefighters have started a nonprofit foundation to raise funds to make the community better.

A Q&A eith Aimi Xistra who is running for a seat on the South Lake Tahoe City Council in the November election.

Growers support a federal and state proposal for operating California’s massive systems that send river water south. But it could harm more salmon and other endangered fish.

The state air board will vote on changes to its landmark clean fuel program that would cut more greenhouse gases but could raise the cost of gas and diesel.

An update on the renovations to the California Conservation Corps Greenwood Center.