El Dorado County Department of Transportation July 17 through Sept. 2, El Dorado County’s Department of Transportation, in conjunction with GP Development and GradeTek, Inc., will implement nightly lane closures on Saratoga Way between Arrowhead Drive and Finder’s Way starting at 7 p.m. each evening and ending each morning by 6 a.m.  Night work is ..read more

Local firefighters were called out to two El Dorado County brush fires Wednesday. The largest was a blaze held to an estimated 10.3 acres in the area of Brandon Road and Shadow Hawk Drive in the south Shingle Springs Shadow Hawk gated community. That fire was reported shortly before 4 p.m., growing at a moderate ..read more

Temperatures across the state are forecast to reach potentially record-breaking daily highs this weekend, and event organizers and California agencies are all preparing for the scorching heat. “Heat waves like this are not unexpected and we expect to see them grow more frequent and severe,” Brian Ferguson, a representative from the California Governor’s Office of ..read more

Nineteen miles of trail that travel through Desolation Wilderness in the area of Echo Lakes and Lake Aloha are in need of extensive restoration work due to high use, erosion and extreme weather events. To address this critical need, the nonprofit Tahoe Fund is partnering with the Tahoe Rim Trail Association to launch a $50,000 ..read more

Adding their voice to an opinion already stated by the El Dorado County Board of Supervisors, Placerville City Council members voted to send a letter to the California Department of Public Health urging them to not renew authorization for Sierra Harm Reduction Coalition to operate in the county. The council voted 3-1 to send a ..read more

Update 7:25 p.m. The fire that torched 10.3 acres near the Brandon Road and Shadow Hawk Drive area of Shingle Springs was at 50% containment as of 7 p.m. Wednesday. Fire crews were able to stop the fire’s progress and will be on scene into the night, according to Cameron Park Fire Department Battalion Chief ..read more

Jennifer Theresa Kent University of Nevada, Reno INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. — Microplastics, small fragments of fibers from clothing, packaging and other plastic residue, have invaded freshwater lakes and watersheds globally and in alarming quantities, according to research published July 12 in the scientific journal Nature under the title “Plastic debris in lakes and reservoirs.” Lake Tahoe, known for ..read more

Fire crews stopped a 6.7-acre fire that sparked Tuesday afternoon near the 5300 block of Butte Creek Road in the Somerset area. Dubbed the Flat Fire, Cal Fire Amador-El Dorado Unit Public Information Officer Wendy Oaks said the cause of the fire is under investigation. Oaks noted no injuries were reported. Cal Fire responded to ..read more

After 16 years at the helm of the El Dorado Community Foundation, Bill Roby is readying to retire at the end of 2023. An organization built to support and strengthen the El Dorado County community, the foundation maximizes donor impact though offering grants, scholarships, educational opportunities, emergency response funds and more. Though such foundations can ..read more

A bear breaking into a downtown Placerville chicken coop June 10 was scared off twice by the coop’s owner before the bear returned a third time and wouldn’t back off quite so easily. Feeling threatened by the bear as it advanced toward him, California Department of Fish and Wildlife officers said the Clay Street resident ..read more