Columbia News

A plan to scrap most of the county planning commissions was killed Tuesday after audience members urged the Tuolumne County Board of Supervisors to spare the land-use bodies.

TUOLUMNE COUNTY Sheriff's reports FRIDAY 8:21 a.m., Groveland - A burglary was reported on the 13000 block of Tip Top Court.

Coming off a two week break, the Tuolumne County Supervisors will meet on Tuesday.

Two people escaped a house fire today in the Phoenix Lake area. The fire at 21600 Montgomery Road was reported at 11:25 a.m. The property is owned by Glen Kolpack, fire officials said.

Columbia College's non-teaching staff will get no pay hikes, other than existing step raises, under a new contract with the Yosemite Community College District.

More wet weather is coming Friday after a weak system moved through overnight, dropping light amounts of rain in the foothills and dusting Sierra passes with snow.

The Columbia Area Advisory Council met Wednesday night and learned from the State Parks district superintendent of cuts facing Columbia State Historic Park.

TUOLUMNE COUNTY Sheriff's reports WEDNESDAY 8:20 a.m., Columbia area - A man in a white pickup dumped 25 bags of trash off an embankment near the 13100 block of Yankee Hill Road.

By a 5-0 vote this morning the Tuolumne County supervisors approved a 40 year lease agreement with Gold Country Hangars to build a 14,925 square foot facility at the Pine Mountain Lake Airport in the south county.

Leigh Cara Hussman has a strict rule: No Christmas music until the day after thanksgiving! The singer/dancer from Visalia has been singing "It's Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas" and other Yuletide favorites for two weeks, though, and loving every minute of it.

It is Veterans Day, a Federal and State Holiday that salutes, recognizes and honors our Nation's service veterans.

The Tuolumne County District Attorney's Office charged a Sonora man with one felony count of carjacking with use of a deadly weapon in a complaint filed Thursday.

The Heritage Tours and Setness Tours companies are planning the following trips: Heritage Tours: Mystery Trip on Wednesday; Albany Golden Gate Fields; Jackson: Main Street Theater: "A Tuna Christmas"; Sonora: Sierra Repertory Theater; and Columbia Fallon House Theater: Christmas My Way.

BROTHERS ETHAN and Jesse Hinman sit outside grandma Alice Hinmana s Columbia home.

Tuolumne County Health Department Nurse Practitioner Marsha Malgesini gives a nasal vaccination to Soulsbyville Elementary School first-grader Olivia Lang, of Sonora.

Vaccines to combat H1N1 have started arriving in Tuolumne County schools and should be in Calaveras County schools next week.

Living in Northern California, you hear many stories about the California Gold Rush area.

Officials say a man who was found shot inside a Columbia-area home was the victim of homicide.

Law enforcement is investigating whether there was any foul play related to the death of a Columbia man on Tuesday.

Saturday evening deputies from the Tuolumne County Sheriff's Office assisted El Cerrito police in arresting a rape and kidnapping suspect from the Bay Area.