Mokelumne Hill

SAN ANDREAS - The long-running dispute over whether Calaveras County property owners can build homes on lots even if they can't prove they have a legal way to drive there is not over.

SAN ANDREAS - A new year and a little new blood were not enough Tuesday morning to prevent the old-blood majority on the Calaveras County Board of Supervisors from immediately resuming the bickering that has characterized it over the past several years.

SAN ANDREAS - The $93 million effort to reform California's juvenile justice system by transferring many young offenders to county custody is deeply flawed, with inadequate guidelines for how the money should be spent and contains no system for tracking...

WALLACE - Calaveras County's planning staff is recommending that the Board of Supervisors today reject a proposed 124-home subdivision in Wallace because the developer behind the project has not made changes necessary to protect the California Tiger...

MURPHYS - Despite foreclosure proceedings against several Stevenot Winery properties, the famed Calaveras County winery itself will not close and will soon expand, Stevenot owner Jack Munari said Friday.

SAN ANDREAS - Residents of San Andreas already pay among the highest monthly sewer bills in the region, and that rate might soon increase again as the San Andreas Sanitary District braces for an estimated $9.

SAN ANDREAS - The good news is that the majority of youths who tangled with the law in Calaveras County over a recent three year period - almost 80 percent according to a consultant's analysis - weren't caught violating the law again.

Jeremy Terhune knows how most people look at the Calaveras River.

VALLEY SPRINGS - The Calaveras Youth Mentoring program is looking for a few good men and women to work with area youths.

MURPHYS - Folks interested in the future of parks and recreation in Calaveras County are invited to a meeting at 6 p.m. Jan. 14 in Native Sons Hall, 389 Main St., Murphys.

MURPHYS - President-elect Barack Obama appears to have a rebellion on his hands when it comes to his proposals for reforming health care.

SAN ANDREAS - Ellie Nesler, notorious for walking into a Jamestown courtroom and fatally shooting the man accused of molesting her son, died Friday of cancer at the University of California, Davis, Medical Center in Sacramento. She was 56.

WALLACE - A proposed golf course resort and luxury home development on the far western edge of Calaveras County would be among the beneficiaries of a new water pipeline that would be built with federal economic stimulus dollars, if Calaveras County Water...

ARNOLD - Sarah Mishkind, 9, got a pair of pink, aluminum-framed snowshoes for Christmas. She took them on their maiden voyage Saturday at Calaveras Big Trees State Park.

ARNOLD - Sarah Mishkind, 9, got a pair of pink, aluminum-framed snowshoes for Christmas. She took them on their maiden voyage Saturday at Calaveras Big Trees State Park.

VALLEY SPRINGS - The Kawk-Eyed Cafe is a great place to get warm.

SAN ANDREAS - The environmental group Forest Ethics released a report Thursday analyzing the 770,000 pounds of herbicides that timber giant Sierra Pacific Industries used on its lands during an 11-year period and calling on the company to reduce its use...

SAN ANDREAS - Rural Californians are balking at the cost of proposed state rules intended to force them to keep their septic tank discharges out of the water the rest of the state drinks.

MANTECA - San Joaquin County law enforcement agencies have begun their yearly holiday season campaign to remove drunken drivers from the roadways.

ANGELS CAMP - Fishing is a bit chaotic at New Melones Lake these days. It seems like the cold water is attracting many kinds of fish and drawing them close to the shoreline, where unassuming anglers are being surprised by what they hook.