El Dorado County

The California Gold Rush town of Placerville will change its logo to remove a noose that stems from its mid-19th century reputation as “Hangtown” following lynchings of criminal suspects by mobs of miners.

Highway 50, one of two main arteries into and out of the Lake Tahoe region in the Sierra Nevada, was shut down near Placerville for hours Wednesday evening due to a jackknifed big rig, according to Caltrans.

Thousands of friends, colleagues and family remembered a Northern California sheriff’s deputy killed last month while responding to a call about a theft from a marijuana garden as a devoted father and a committed deputy.

An El Dorado County police officer was killed Wednesday morning responding to an active shooter situation in Sonmerset.

An autopsy has concluded that a planned power shutdown did not cause the death of a Northern California man dependent on oxygen who died about 12 minutes after PG&E shut down power in El Dorado County, California, on Wednesday. The El Dorado County Sheriff’s office said Friday that 67-year-old Robert Mardis died from severe coronary disease. The office said the...

Fire Chief Ralph Terrazas updates reporters on the Saddleridge wildfire, which has burned at least 4,000 acres north of Los Angeles.

Uncontrollable is the word now being used among fire chiefs in California to describe the kind of wildfires we could experience this year. Last year was a crushing year for California.

How many roads are enough to get out? A USA Today-California Network analysis of California communities and evacuation routes shows that some areas in the state are far outside the norm when it comes to the number of lanes of roadway available for the size of the population.

Yet another round of rain made it’s way to the Bay Area on Sunday night and carried over into Monday.

California voters have narrowly approved a ballot measure banning short-term vacation rentals in residential neighborhoods outside downtown South Lake Tahoe beginning in three years.

Republicans’ nominee for California state attorney general is facing an ethics tribunal just two months before the November election. Former judge Steven Bailey is accused of using his office to further his statewide campaign, improperly accepting gifts and steering business to a firm where his son worked — all in violation of judicial ethics. Bailey served as an El Dorado...

The Sonoma County District Attorney’s Office has charged a Forestville man with the murders of a Midwest couple on a secluded beach near Jenner in 2004.

California’s water managers measured the Sierra Nevada snowpack, which supplies water to millions, Thursday during a mostly dry winter of above-average temperatures in the southern part of the state.

El Dorado County sheriff’s deputies are searching for a man who fell into a water pipe. Deputies say the man fell into an untreated raw water pipe Monday afternoon. They haven’t been able to find him, and overnight they transitioned from a rescue operation to a recovery mission. People who live in several communities were asked to stop using...

A mountain lion cub rescued from the wild in the Sierra Nevada was recovering Tuesday at the Oakland Zoo.

A man’s body last month was fished out of Fallen Leaf Lake in El Dorado County with a rope, to which an anchor was attached, entwined around his legs, sheriff’s officials said.

Three women journeying to a wedding in Placerville Sunday were hit by a suspected drunken driver, but thanks to a California Highway Patrol officer, they were still able to celebrate the marriage’s festivities.

Family and friends of a missing Hayward man made a desperate plea for help Sunday as they searched for their loved one in the Lake Tahoe area.

A Yuba City couple who became stuck in snow while driving in a mountainous area of Northern California over the weekend has been located and both are doing well, authorities said Monday.