ANGELS CAMP - Already-small city governments in Mother Lode communities such as Angels Camp and Sutter Creek have been shrinking over the last year - and largely from the top.
VALLEY SPRINGS - The Calaveras County Sheriff's Department is looking for a 28-year-old man suspected of involvement in a violent home invasion robbery Monday morning.
SAN ANDREAS - Convicted killer George Hatton Smithey took his own life Saturday morning in his cell on death row at San Quentin State Prison, just days after a judge had commuted his death sentence to life in prison.
VALLEY SPRINGS - Volunteers are playing a bigger role this year in cleaning and maintaining trails, campgrounds and other facilities at New Hogan Lake.
SAN ANDREAS - The Calaveras County Board of Supervisors has agreed to a complex lease financing deal under which the state government will provide more than $26 million to build a 160-bed jail.
SAN ANDREAS - A stretch of yet-to-be-built trail less than a half-mile long may be a milestone on a path to a new relationship between Calaveras County officials and the Calaveras County Council of Governments.
SAN ANDREAS - Calaveras and Alpine counties are pioneering a microwave-based communications network for public safety agencies that will speed the work of law officers on their beats and patch the communications gaps that have hindered inter-agency...
SAN ANDREAS - Calaveras County's battle over sustainability continued Tuesday, with the Board of Supervisors narrowly approving a plan to join Tuolumne County in applying for a $1.6 million state grant to plan for a future in which residents are less...
SAN ANDREAS - Relatives of Cheryl Anne Nesler wept Monday as they told a judge of their continuing grief over her murder 22 years ago and of their new anguish now that they know her killer will never suffer the death penalty to which he was originally...
TUOLUMNE - An Angels Camp man was electrocuted last week while working to provide service to a Tuolumne home, according to Pacific Gas and Electric Co.
MOUNTAIN RANCH - Residents were grieving Monday after learning that longtime businessman and philanthropist Jerry Yates had died during an attack by pit bulls.
SAN ANDREAS - Convicted killer George Hatton Smithey is mentally retarded, according to two independent neuropsychologists, and so will likely have his death sentence overturned, the Calaveras County District Attorney's Office said this week.
