Tuolumne County candidates in Tuesday’s primary election are days away from finding out if their efforts over the past few months have paid off.

Ryan Dutton, the principal of Tioga High, has been assigned to the classroom, beginning in the fall.

A juvenile was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after another juvenile was stabbed with a pocketknife during a dispute over $5 in Jamestown on Tuesday. 

Summerville High School has extra law enforcement patrols this morning after a threat was received saying there would be a shooting at a Summerville High School.

The Tuolumne Utilities District Board of Directors unanimously approved a nearly $537,000 contract at a public meeting Tuesday for construction management on a long-planned restoration of Phoenix Lake Reservoir that’s scheduled to break ground this summer.

Calaveras County Animal Control officers seized 47 dogs, cats, rabbits and reptiles from a Copperopolis home. 

A trial for at least one of the associates of the former Rosalinda’s Gentlemen’s Club was set for April 8, but many of her co-defendants did not appear at a trial setting hearing on Monday afternoon and have warrants for their arrest.

Alex MacLean's story on a complaint the county received about the homeless camp is in Tuesday's Union Democrat. Here are the photos of what the place called Camp Hope looked like on Monday, Feb. 24, 2020.

A pilot crash-landed a single-engine Aviat Husky A-1A airplane at Columbia Airport on Saturday afternoon, when winds were gusting to 15 miles per hour, and the plane came to rest nose down, tail up about 100 feet from a Cal Fire tanker plane that’s been on display next to the runway for at l…

A Superior Court judge issued a warrant for the arrest of Mona McGrady after she did not appear for a hearing Monday morning, but then recalled it once she came in for the afternoon session.

A man went on a rampage Thursday afternoon through two Greenley Road apartment complexes, yelling and swinging a bat at people, Sonora Police said.

A father accidentally shot his son and inflicted a non-life threatening injury to his arm during a custody exchange at a Valley Springs gas station on Tuesday.

The California State Railroad Museum and Railtown 1897 State Historic Park swapped train cars Wednesday.

The Calaveras County Sheriff’s Office Marijuana Enforcement Unit eradicated 1,057 pot plants and 35 pounds of processed marijuana after serving a search warrant in Wallace. 

The Calaveras County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a non-life threatening gunshot wound a person sustained in Valley Springs Tuesday afternoon. 

The Sonora City Council will develop an action plan on economic development without help from an outside consultant after being left unimpressed by a recent $7,500 report prepared by a Chico-based firm.Council members, business owners and city residents voiced disappointment at a public meet…

A fifth of all registered voters had cast their ballot in the March 3 primary as of Thursday afternoon.

Hospitality, senior care and natural resource manufacturing are the three main industries that Tuolumne County should target when trying to attract businesses, according to Cole Przybyla, director of the county’s Innovation and Business Assistance Department.

Nestled in a nondescript commercial stripmall in the Crystal Falls area, a group of entrepreneurial biotech gearheads are constructing machines that sequence and synthesize the building blocks for all life.

Fire destroyed a structure and damaged multiple parked vehicles in a residential area up on Big Hill Road before noon Tuesday, on another dry, breezy, sunny day with temperatures in the 60s in February.

Outgoing Sonora Union High School District Superintendent Mark Miller will be paid $35,000 in severance, according to a separation agreement provided by the district on Tuesday.

A longstanding eyesore along the southern gateway into downtown Sonora is no more.

Dr. Mark Miller is out as superintendent of Sonora Union High School district.

A 23-year-old from Lamont overturned a three-axle big rig onto its roof while driving in La Grange Friday afternoon and suffered minor injuries, but his load of lumber was spilled on the road.

Connections Visual and Performing Arts Academy sophomore Valerie Harris will represent Tuolumne County in the state Poetry Out Loud contest in March at the California State Capitol.

Two fleeing drivers led law enforcement officers on separate chases through Tuolumne County Thursday night and early Friday, with one getting arrested and the other getting away. 

Thirty-seven students from Tuolumne County primary schools navigated words like zabaglione, abacus, juror, alkaloid, arsenic and imperturbable at the 45th annual Dr. June McOmber Junior High Spelling Bee at Curtis Creek Elementary School Wednesday night, but one 7th grade Connections Academy…

The Tuolumne County Chamber of Commerce drew about 100 people to its question and answer session involving all local candidates in the March 3 primary ballot.

A 28-year-old from Valley Springs sustained major injuries just outside of downtown Valley Springs on Tuesday when his 2005 Chevrolet Silverado overturned on Highway 12. 

Two people associated with the former Rosalinda’s Gentlemen’s Club turned themselves in to the Tuolumne County Sheriff’s Office this week for failing to appear at a trial readiness hearing, but as of Wednesday morning the matriarch and namesake owner of the club remains at large. 

A burned-out former Indian restaurant at 301 S. Washington St. in downtown Sonora will be torn down on Saturday after being an eyesore for more than a decade.

The power of one green bag was demonstrated Saturday as The Mother Lode Food Project participants collected 3,332 pounds of food and $513 cash donations pushing their eight-year totals to 201,839 pounds (100 tons) of food and $14,060 in cash donations. 

The Tuolumne County Chamber of Commerce is hosting a free event at 6 p.m. Tuesday for the public to meet local candidates who are running in the March 3 primary election.

Heavy winds topped out with gusts at over 50 miles per hour in certain areas of the Mother Lode on Sunday, knocking down power poles and trees and leaving some residents without power.

The trial for the former Sonora High School varsity girls basketball coach accused of sexually abusing a minor female student was set for June 10 in Tuolumne County Superior Court Monday.

Being crowned Miss Gold Country can be a life changing experience, according to Kimber Szotko, who won the title in 1994.

A 21-year-old woman from Angels Camp was arrested Thursday on suspicion she jumped a fence at Bret Harte High School and stole items from student lockers about three weeks ago.

A former student who prompted a two-hour lockdown at Belleview Elementary School after he sent a photograph of a handgun to an eighth grader was arrested Wednesday in Santa Rosa on suspicion of criminal threats, said Tuolumne County Sheriff’s Office Public Information Officer Niccoli Sandelin. 

Investigators scoured the wreckage Thursday of a Cessna that crashed in a grove of trees on ranch land south of Columbia Airport.

Demolition began this week to redo the facade on one of the main buildings at the Sonora Plaza on Mono Way in anticipation of a Wilco farm-supply store moving in.

A Sonora woman was accused of hiding drugs, stolen mail and altered, fraudulent checks in a vehicle with false registration in the Lowe’s parking lot in Sonora on Wednesday night.

A Calaveras County Superior Court judge refused to release the former owner of an Angels Camp pet grooming business from jail on Thursday morning, instead ordering that she receive a mental health assessment while she awaits a ruling on a probation violation stemming from a 2019 no contest p…

A former Belleview Elementary School student sent a text message Tuesday night to a current student saying, "I'm coming there," along with a photo of a handgun.

Two people died in the crash of a small plane Wednesday night in a pasture off Springfield Road, the Tuolumne County Sheriff's Office announced.

The Tuolumne County Board of Supervisors voted 5-0 to dismiss County Health Officer Dr. Bob Bernstein in closed session at a special meeting on Wednesday.

The former owner of an Angels Camp pet grooming business who pleaded no contest to felony animal negligence in 2019 may face a jail term in Calaveras County Jail after being accused of violating probation by failing to provide county probation with her address.

Primary watersheds in the Mother Lode, including the Stanislaus River and Tuolumne River basins, have received 11.1 inches of precipitation since the current water year started Oct. 1.