Alex Maclean

Four public school districts in Tuolumne County will soon launch a program that's been years in the making to help address an ongoing nationwide shortage of school bus drivers.

The Tuolumne County Board of Supervisors will hold a special public meeting at noon Monday to welcome new and returning members, elect this year's board leadership and consider requests to change how annual performances of some top-level officials are handled.

Tuolumne County had a sharp rise in confirmed flu cases last month, according to data from the California Department of Public Health, though Adventist Health Sonora said it hasn’t seen

The preliminary hearing for a Sonora woman accused in Tuolumne County's first fentanyl-related murder case has been delayed due to a change in her court-appointed defense attorney.

A 24-year-old man who was one of three people originally arrested in the 2023 murder of Big Hill resident Ben Lindsey Jr. pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity last month.

Poultry shows at both the Mother Lode and Calaveras County fairs are the latest victim of an ongoing bird flu epidemic in the United States that has contributed to soaring prices for eggs and recently led to the death of one person.

New details emerged Monday afternoon about how a female correctional officer at Sierra Conservation Center was kidnapped and raped at gunpoint by an inmate at the state prison in Tuolumne County nearly a year ago.

Tuolumne Utilities District will soon be looking to fill a vacancy on its board of directors after one of the three candidates who ran unopposed for three open seats in the Nov. 5 general election declined to take the position.

The Jamestown Sanitary District Board of Directors will again consider approving controversial rate increases at a public meeting Tuesday night.

A prison guard who was allegedly held hostage and sexually assaulted last year by a hyper-violent prisoner at Sierra Conservation Center is now suing the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation over claims that the agency failed to adequately protect her.