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SAN ANDREAS — Officials with The Resource Connection are responding to a shortage of child care providers in San Andreas and surrounding areas with programs to train and assist individuals considering starting such a business.

SAN ANDREAS - Calaveras County residents who suffered property damage during heavy snowfalls in January will be eligible for state tax relief, the California Franchise Tax Board announced this week.

MODESTO - A federal bankruptcy judge in Modesto this week dished out one victory to the owners of the Trinitas golf course and another to Calaveras County government officials who are the targets of Trinitas lawsuits.

SAN ANDREAS - Calaveras County officials Tuesday said goodbye to their plan to beef up financial reserves by more than $500,000 this year.

SUTTER CREEK - Voters in June will decide whether to overturn the City Council's approval of Gold Rush Ranch, a 1,334-home project that could double the town's size.

Calaveras County residents have a chance to voice opinions about growth and development over the next 25 years.

SAN ANDREAS - Calaveras County appears poised to recoup several hundred thousand dollars in costs from responding to intense snowstorms in late January and early February. The White House announced Monday that President Barack Obama has signed a disaster...

VALLEY SPRINGS - Residents will have a chance tonight to tell San Joaquin Delta College officials what they want to study at a long-dreamed-of satellite campus to be built someday in Valley Springs.

Calaveras County officials are seeing public input on proposals for how to zone land and where new development should be directed over the next 25 years.

ANGELS CAMP - Calaveras County officials are calling for parents and others who have children in their homes to dispose of unused prescription drugs to prevent the medications from potentially being abused by young people.

SAN ANDREAS - Calaveras County officials are seeing public input on proposals for how to zone land and where new development should be directed over the next 25 years. The county is revising its General Plan for land use and has scheduled a series of...

SAN ANDREAS - A year from now, Calaveras County homeowners will likely be able to finance energy- and money-saving home improvements such as new windows, increased insulation and solar-electric panels through up-to-20-year loans they can repay through...

SAN ANDREAS - Elizabeth Ernst, 12, correctly predicted the pitfalls that would plague competitors during the 2010 Calaveras County Spelling Bee.

MURPHYS - Peggy Fleming says she learned a lot from performing under pressure, winning the gold medal in figure skating at the 1968 Olympics, and a long career as a television commentator. Yet she found she had new lessons to master when she was...

SAN ANDREAS - The emotions ranged from shock to anger as parents and teachers watched a glum Calaveras Unified School District Board of Trustees vote to lay off almost two dozen teachers, including those who teach elementary school music and band.

SAN ANDREAS - Calaveras Unified School District trustees voted Tuesday night to lay off the equivalent of almost two dozen teachers, including the instructors who provide elementary music and band programs.

SAN ANDREAS - Calaveras County Undersheriff Mike Walker has announced both that he won't run for sheriff - despite having been asked - and that he will resign Aug. 13 rather than continue working under budgetary conditions that he says will require...

SAN ANDREAS - One out of every eight Calaveras Unified School District teachers would be laid off under a proposal to be considered tonight by the district's board of trustees.

SAN ANDREAS - The kind of sprawling, 5- and 10-acre ranchette development that has dominated Calaveras County in recent decades would largely end under a proposed revision to the county's General Plan.

SAN ANDREAS - Calaveras County Sheriff Dennis Downum has announced he will not seek re-election. Downum, 64, also said in a written statement that he made the announcement now - three weeks before the deadline for candidates to get on the ballot - in the...