Guy McCarthy

Tuesday was the final day Tuolumne County Mono Vista Fire Station 56 was staffed and responding to calls, due to a $2.3 million cut from the county's 2026-27 agreement with Cal Fire that was approved by the county Board of Supervisors in April by a split 3-2 vote.

Sonora resident Carol Travis pointed to a photo of her father, Ronald “Mick” Hamilton, who served in the U.S. Navy during the Korean War, and a photo of her father-in-law, Robert Rundle, who served in the U.S. Army during World War II, on Thursday in the Creekside Building at the 2026 Mother Lode Fair.

A 25-year-old man, one of three people originally arrested in connection with the 2023 murder of Big Hill resident Ben Lindsey Jr., was convicted by a jury last Wednesday of second-degree murder, first-degree residential robbery, personally inflicting great bodily injury, and unlawfully driving a vehicle.

A fire broke out shortly after noon Saturday in Tuolumne County about 9 miles east of Knights Ferry and burned 30 to 35 acres of dry grass and other vegetation before being extinguished by firefighters, Cal Fire Tuolumne-Calaveras Unit staff said Monday.

The Tuolumne County Fire Department and Cal Fire on Tuesday shared a list of successes, including rescues and responses to fires and other emergencies, made possible by federal grant funding from March 2023 to March 2026.

Overnight visitors in the Emigrant and Mokelumne wilderness areas have been leaving exposed feces, toilet paper, trash and damaged vegetation, prompting federal officials to reissue existing strict use rules for

An appointed Superior Court judge on Tuesday questioned the mental competence of a 57-year-old man who was arrested in a June 12 standoff at a downtown Sonora home and has since been accused of additional felonies that include making threats against two other judges and two other individuals, as well as making a false threat to place a bomb or bombs in Tuolumne County Superior Court, in the county Public Defender's Office, and in the county District Attorney's Office.

Caltrans District 10 has started a $36.4 million project to rehabilitate and resurface 31.7 linear miles of Highway 4 in Alpine County, westward from Highway 89 to the Calaveras County line, a job that is scheduled to be completed by November 2030.

A 63-year-old Sonora woman, Brenda Lee Devries, was sentenced to a stipulated term of 16 years and four months in state prison on Monday, after she pleaded guilty June 16 to assault on a peace officer, recklessly fleeing a pursuing peace officer, and driving under the influence of a drug in connection with a Dec. 8 pursuit that ended at the 76 gas station in Jamestown.

Community boosters in Big Oak Flat and Groveland recently organized the creation of a 65-foot-wide, 9-foot-tall mural to celebrate America's 250th birthday and unveiled it last Saturday on the Wards Ferry Road side of Around the Horn Brewing Co.