Guy McCarthy

Angelina Bettanini, who attended Curtis Creek Elementary and graduated with the Class of 2020 from Connections Visual and Performing Arts Academy at Summerville High School, on stage as America's Ideal Miss Texas at the America's Ideal Miss National Pageant in Columbus, Georgia in July.

A contentious meeting of the Jamestown Sanitary District Board of Directors ended Tuesday night with a split 3-2 vote to scrap a controversial plan for proposed sewer utility service rate increases and start over, after which two board members resigned.

Tracie Riggs, the top administrator for Tuolumne County's government since 2018, has resigned in the wake of a closed-session public employee performance evaluation on Tuesday, the county Board of Supervisors announced Wednesday.

Tuolumne County educators and the nonprofit public charity Sonora Area Foundation are touting their support for Career Technical Education to try to meet greater demand for trades-skilled and technical-skilled workers, and to help steer K-12 students toward trades careers that offer competitive pay and secure futures.

A Tuolumne County sheriff's deputy was hospitalized with injuries he suffered in a crash Saturday when his 2018 Ford Explorer patrol vehicle collided with a 2003 GMC Yukon driven by suspected drunk driver entering the road from the Rawhide Saloon driveway on Highway 108.

A 19-year-old Central Calaveras Fire and Rescue Protection District firefighter, who was set to graduate this spring from Columbia College, died in a solo-vehicle crash on his way to work at Station 1 last Wednesday.

A Twain Harte man who is accused of threatening to shoot a family law attorney and a Tuolumne County Superior Court judge will get a new defense lawyer, as well as be examined to determine whether he is competent to stand trial, another judge ruled Tuesday morning.

Chances for rain showers this weekend could bring a quarter-inch of rain to Sonora and as much as a foot of snow to places like Sonora Pass and Tioga Pass, according to forecasters.

A single-engine Cessna 172 airplane with two people on board crashed near a ranch home south of Columbia Airport about 3:15 p.m. Thursday, the Federal Aviation Administration told The Union Democrat.

A single-engine Cessna 172 airplane with two people on board crashed near a ranch home south of Columbia Airport about 3:15 p.m. Thursday, the Federal Aviation Administration told The Union