El Dorado County, CA

PILOT HILL, Calif. — Cal Fire is fighting a 25-acre fire in the Pilot Hill area of El Dorado County. They are calling it the Equestrian Fire, according to the hashtag on Twitter. The fire is 50% contained as of 2:15 p.m. Cal Fire said in a tweet that "the...

A company in El Dorado County that specializes in underwater survey equipment made a startling discover last week with sonar images that have located an aircraft deep in the waters of Folsom Lake that was originally believed to be that of a crash that killed four more than 50 years ago. That has since changed.

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. — El Dorado County sheriff’s deputies arrested 40-year-old Justin Kremer Thursday after following up on new evidence regarding the 2019 death of Pleasant Valley woman Heather Gumina-Waters. Kremer, who has a South Lake Tahoe address, is suspected of being an accessory in Gumina-Waters’ disappearance and alleged...

El Dorado County Sheriff's Office says a second arrest has been made in the 2019 murder case of a South Lake Tahoe woman. Officials arrested 40-year-old Justin Kremer as an accessory to murder Thursday in relation to the murder of Heather Gumina Waters. In 2019, Gumina Waters' body was reportedly...

A new El Dorado Hills senior community, Heritage at Carson Creek Village 11, is now in the hands of the El Dorado County Board of Supervisors. Lennar Homes’ proposal for an age-restricted residential village just south of its Heritage El Dorado Hills development was recently denied by the El Dorado County Planning Commission based on incompatible zoning uses, undesirable promotion of certain housing development types, lack of right-of-ways for a connective road to the Sacramento County area and insufficient driveway lengths.

Recently, the Revolutionary Communist Party USA held a protest in Los Angeles against the local county sheriff’s office. The political party is claiming that Sheriff Villanueva and his officers are ‘treating homeless people like garbage and terrorizing Black and Brown people.” They further claim that law enforcement officers and military personnel are the enforcers of an oppressive, capitalistic society. Their recent march/protest in LA was held to “show the world we are getting organized now for real world revolution to overthrow the whole system these pigs enforce.”

The 2021 Junior Livestock Show & Auction takes place at the El Dorado County Fairgrounds in Placerville, June 18-20. The event is the culmination of months of hard work for local youth who have put time and a lot of effort into raising quality animals — rabbits, goats, sheep, pigs, cattle and poultry.

The El Dorado County Schools Transportation Council recently partnered with the El Dorado County Office of Education to host the Driver Appreciation Parade to demonstrate how much value school transportation teams contribute to education in El Dorado County. On the EDCOE main campus in Placerville, cars lined up under a balloon arch, were greeted with festively painted signs and El Dorado County Superintendent of Schools Dr. Ed Manansala.

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. — Thirty years ago this past week in South Lake Tahoe, a real life horror story began when 11-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard was kidnapped while walking to the bus stop. On June 10, 1991, sexual predator Philip Garrido and his wife Nancy Garrido abducted Dugard and...

Behind the Bel-Air grocery store in CameronPark is the El Dorado Disposal/Waste Connections recycling center. This is a service provided at no cost to those who wish to do the environmentally conscious thing with their recyclables — newspaper, cardboard, glass, etc. Instead, it has absolutely turned into a public dumping...

El Dorado Irrigation District and Pioneer Community Energy signed a contract for Pioneer to receive electricity from an EID hydroelectric facility over the next 10 years. The contract represents a mutually beneficial arrangement that meets EID’s non-rate revenue goals through hydroelectric generation while providing Pioneer with cost-effective, clean electricity for ratepayers in Placer and El Dorado counties.

Big Brothers Big Sisters raised more than $100,000 for mentorship programs from the local nonprofit agency’s ninth annual Golf For Kids’ Sake fundraiser held in May. The monies raised will go to benefiting at-risk youth throughout the northern Sierra communities including El Dorado and Nevada counties and South and North Lake Tahoe areas plus the surrounding communities of Truckee, Kings Beach and Tahoe City.

El Dorado County officials formally announced June 8 that the county has joined Pioneer Community Energy to bring businesses and residents a choice in electric generation providers starting January 2022. El Dorado County representatives approached Pioneer in summer 2020 expressing interest in receiving the benefits of the Pioneer community choice...

A record number of persons viewed El Dorado County’s Memorial Day ceremony this past month. The virtual ceremony was viewed 35,000 times on Comcast cable channel 2, YouTube and on the El Dorado County Veterans Alliance, Veterans Affairs Commission, Sheriff’s Office, District Attorney and Recorder/Clerk’s Facebook pages, the El Dorado County Veterans Alliance reports.

With some state restrictions lifted Tuesday and more people getting back to work and other activities, El Dorado Transit will continue to comply with the federal mask mandate for public transportation, requiring passengers and staff to wear masks on board transit buses and vans. El Dorado Transit has been providing...

Bad guys beware, the El Dorado County sheriff’s and District Attorney’s offices now have an automated nuclear DNA equipment (ANDE) rapid DNA analysis machine at their disposal. The ANDE machine will be able to analyze a DNA sample providing results in less than two hours, according to sheriff’s officials. The...