An abandoned car caught fire early Tuesday and explosions rocked the rural ranch country where the car was parked on Tuolumne Road.

The owner of Sonora Brewing Co. is questioning the future of his business after the city council on Monday night didn’t approve his request to continue closing Bradford Street on weekends for outdoor dining.

The Sonora City Council named a new mayor and mayor pro-tem for the next two years at a public meeting Monday night, while also welcoming a newly elected member whose family has deep roots in the community.

Calaveras County set a record for the largest number of cases in a single day with 13 people testing positive for COVID-19.

A staff member in the Tuolumne County Jail has tested positive for COVID-19, requiring all staff and inmates be tested, the Sheriff’s Office said Thursday.

Tuolumne County deputies responding to a chainsaw theft at Aladdin Motor Inn Wednesday also found  heroin in a suspect’s room.

A Jenny Lind man is wanted after his neighbor’s dog was shot and killed and the owner threatened, according to the Calaveras County Sheriff’s Office.

Tuolumne County added four new COVID-19 cases Wednesday, including a woman in her 40s who was hospitalized.

Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday ordered tougher restrictions for much of California, requiring 19 counties experiencing increased spread of coronavirus to halt visits to indoor restaurants, wineries and tasting rooms, entertainment centers, movie theaters, zoos, museums and card rooms.

More than a dozen recreation areas and campgrounds in the Stanislaus National Forest will remain closed through July 15 due to COVID-19 pandemic restrictions, a spokesperson assigned to forest headquarters in Sonora said Wednesday.

A 75-year-old man is accused of taking his caretaker’s .38 revolver and threatening to kill her Tuesday evening at a Cedar Ridge home, prompting a SWAT team response and a one-hour standoff that ended with no gunfire and the man in custody, Tuolumne County sheriff’s staff Wednesday morning.

A former Sonora High School girls varsity basketball coach accused of sexually abusing a minor female student pleaded guilty on Monday in Tuolumne County Superior Court, said Assistant District Attorney Eric Hovatter.

Calaveras County recorded eight new COVID-19 cases Tuesday, an increase Public Health officials called “alarming.”

Less than two weeks after Yosemite National Park partially reopened to the public, officials are slowing the process down some after seeing a spike in coronavirus cases in California.

Public Health announced one new case of the coronavirus on Monday, adding to the six staff members at Avalon Care Center announced over the weekend.

A woman who has been arrested on suspicion of possessing drugs and violating her probation, then released from jail due to a state mandated COVID-19 pandemic order, was arrested again on Friday on suspicion of possessing drugs for sale, a Calaveras County sheriff’s sergeant said Monday.

A woman was arrested Saturday morning on suspicion of burglarizing the Murphys Fire Protection District station with intent to steal weed trimmers, a leaf blower, food, sunglasses, and extension cord, and other property, a Calaveras County sheriff’s sergeant said Monday.

An Arnold man was arrested Saturday on suspicion of sparking an arson fire behind the Sonora Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram auto dealer complex on Mono Way in Sonora, Tuolumne County sheriff’s staff said Monday.

Six staff members at Avalon Care Center have tested positive for the coronavirus. 

Hundreds of people turned out Sunday for the Tuolumne Lumber Protest in the center of a town with more than a century of logging history, accompanied by prayers for the loggers, prayers for the timber industry, and prayers for protection from the coronavirus that has surged in recent days in…

After the Public Health department announced Friday night that some of the new cases of coronavirus were tied to four events, the Tuolumne County Board of Supervisors sent out a news release saying they “implore” the public to not demonstrate or have gatherings.

Inner Sanctum Cellars, a winery with a tasting room in Jamestown and event venue in Columbia, cancelled an event scheduled for Saturday and refunded ticket holders following a recent local spike in COVID-19 cases and calls from the Tuolumne County Board of Supervisors for people to avoid lar…

A person who came to Tuolumne County to attend a large multi-day gathering has tested positive for the coronavirus, Public Health announced Saturday.

Tuolumne County Public Health said Friday the recent COVID-19 cases seem to stem from four separate clusters of person-to-person contact.

Fast-moving storm cells that brought a thunderstorm to Sonora on Thursday evening also unleashed winds that downed trees in Yosemite and coincided with at least one power outage that left more than 100 customers without electricity most of the day Friday, meteorologists in Reno and Hanford said.

Three people have been diagnosed with COVID-19 in Calaveras County, two of them in Valley Springs, the Public Health officer reported Friday,

Tuolumne County experienced its biggest increase in COVID-19 cases Thursday when seven people were diagnosed.

If and when school comes back in Tuolumne County in August, it’s going to look different than it did before COVID-19.

A man swinging nunchucks around a kids' playground was arrested Wednesday morning for possession of the illegal weapon.

A 30-year-old man was identified Wednesday as the 15th confirmed case of COVID-19 in Tuolumne County.

A man went to Calaveras County Superior Court last week and allegedly tried to hide a doll containing 9.6 grams of meth in landscaping outside before he reached security at the building entrance in San Andreas, Sheriff’s Office communications staff said Wednesday.

A 19-year-old man drowned Tuesday evening at Rainbow Pool, a popular swimming hole in the Groveland area.

Calaveras County deputies found three marijuana grows, more than 2,200 marijuana plants and one AR-15 type assault rifle in searches this month in Rail Road Flat, on Camp Nine Road, and in Valley Springs, sheriff’s staff said Wednesday.

A drone was flown over the Quarter Fire Tuesday in violation of a temporary restricted flight zone order, which carries the possibility of a year in federal prison and a fine up to $100,00.

To a herd of wayward cows, it was a moooo point that sports have been halted due to the Coronavirus pandemic.

In concert with other openings across the Mother Lode as some COVID-19 pandemic restrictions are adjusted, the federal Bureau of Reclamation announced Tuesday Tuttletown Recreation Area camping and day use sites off Highway 49 in Tuolumne County, and the Natural Bridges Trail and parking are…

Containment on the Quarter Fire increased to 60 percent Tuesday, with firefighters beginning to mop up hot sports with portable backpack water pumps.

A West Point man is the latest case of the coronavirus in Calaveras County and two people have received positive test results in Tuolumne County.

The Quarter Fire was 10 percent contained Monday evening as firefighters were able to make progress on establishing a fire line on the south side of the fire, north of the Stanislaus River.

A 64-year-old Tuolumne County woman who tested positive for COVID-19 attended a baby shower and a birthday party on Saturday and some of people exposed to the virus are refusing to isolate or be tested, the Public Health Department reported Monday.

Roughly 50 people gathered at Courthouse Square in downtown Sonora on Saturday to celebrate Pride Month and protest a guest speaker at a Soulsbyville church who has made statements against homosexuality, gay marriage and Muslims.

Pilots from Columbia Air Attack Base concentrated Sunday on the north side of the Quarter Fire near Cedar Ridge while helicopters worked the south side, the U.S. Forest Service - Stanislaus National Forest reported.

Three new cases of COVID-19 have been diagnosed in Tuolumne County, a 70-year-old woman and a 29-year-old man, who are related, and a 64-year-old woman.

Calaveras County has two more cases of COVID-19 centered in Valley Springs.