Coloma News

More than half of California's 279 state parks will see reduced hours, closed campgrounds, cancelled school field trips and gates padlocked several days a week, under a wave of unprecedented new cuts completed Tuesday by the state parks department.

Visitors to Mt. Diablo State Park, Calif. take in the view to the southeast, from the Summit Building, Sunday, March 29, 2009.

A circa 1851 print of Sutter's Mill in Coloma will be presented to officials of Warabi City, Japan in recognition of the city's 50th anniversary.

Residents of a rural area in El Dorado County were told to boil water after a line break.

Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. and the California Arts Council today announced that 42 local arts organizations will be awarded $549,000 to present free or inexpensive public concerts throughout California with funds obtained from a 2003 anti-trust settlement.

Top-ranked alternatives to the historic Highway 49 route through the heart of El Dorado County would accomplish two key objectives, but area residents say they would do little to improve safety or traffic flow.

The California Parks and Recreation Commission will spend $1.9 million in park bond money to relocate and rebuild a replica of Sutter's Mill in Coloma -- considered the birthplace of the California Gold Rush.

Columbus' days of adventure are over but yours aren't! Christopher Columbus was an explorer and we can be thankful that he had the courage to take a journey to help discover the New World here in America.

The dominant color in the busy backyard scene on a recent Saturday afternoon was purple.

'Ghost hunter's guide to California's Gold Rush country' Special to The Union "Full of all the small details and little-known historical facts that make it hard to put down.

El Dorado County Sheriff's Detective cautiously approaches a marijuana garden in a remote area of El Dorado county recently.

Amid dense scrub oak and manzanita high above the Coloma Valley in El Dorado County, the marijuana growers were stocked to subsist in the steep, unforgiving terrain.

J.P. Sesak, left, and Danny Bears of the El Dorado County Sheriff's Department use a line from a CHP helicopter to re- move marijuana plants during a raid last month near Coloma.

With less than 16 months remaining in Gov. Schwarzeneggera s tenure, political pundits are starting to talk about him in the past tense, as if his administration is already over.

Placerville officials want people to know that one of the city's claims to Gold Rush fame is not affected by state budget cuts.

On Jan. 24, 1848, James Marshall discovered gold in Coloma. More than 160 years later, the state of California is looking to close Marshall Gold Discovery Park, built on the site of that historic discovery, which launched the gold rush and a massive migration west.

The Auburn Urban Development Commission will hold off on plans for Auburna s Central Square after close to 50 residents showed up to a public meeting Monday night to share their differing views on what parts of Auburna s history the area should showcase.

The most popular state park in the Sacramento area: Marshall Gold Discovery Park in Coloma.

Food, prizes and fun were all on the menu at the Coloma Townehomes' National Night Out event on Tuesday night.

Food, prizes and fun were all on the menu at the Coloma Townehomes' National Night Out event on Tuesday night.