Ione News

A property line runs between a grapevine, foreground, and a birch tree, rear, a line obscured by landscaping already installed, perhaps mistakenly, at the time Chuck and Carol Hambaugh bought their Castle Oaks home on Fairway Drive in Ione.

A defunct Ione-area coal-fire power plant could be converted into a cleaner-burning wood-fired plant by mid next year.

Over the next year, the former coal-fired electrical power plant at Buena Vista will be converted to burn a much cleaner fuel - wood waste.

Italian Prime minister Silvio Berlusconi speaks to the press on the Ionian island of Corfu, northwestern Greece, on Saturday, June 27, 2009, during a NATO-Russia Council.

A trio of current civil lawsuits involves Amador County. Supervisors took a closed-session briefing on them Tuesday.

A major Sacramento builder is delinquent on some $453,000 in Mello-Roos tax payments to Ione.

Doug Wescott, Kurt Todden and Kam Merzlak are building a 17-foot-high replica of the Kennedy Mine headframe for this year's California State Fair exhibit.

Steven Huntington and Tod Dorris gather up CAL FIRE memorabilia to put in display cases at the new CAL FIRE Museum.

Chew on this : Movie producer Bradley has an open sore on his ass the size of a jumbo shrimp, and it's about to expand amid his frantic efforts to save a crappy film.

A truck heads down Main Street in Ione amidst cheering crowds during an Ione Homecoming Parade in the mid-1950s. Ione Homecoming was the most popular event in the city at the mid-century mark.

Twenty-five grams of free-base cocaine, seen here, along with pills and drug manufacturing tools were seized by Amador County law enforcement during a warrant execution on June 4. On June 4, an undercover agent from the Amador County Combined Narcotics Enforcement Team pulled off a successful sting operation, leading to the arrest of a woman ...

I saw Bryan Fogel and Sam Wolfson's The World of Jewtopia when it premiered in West Hollywood in 2003, and I was one of the only critics who gave it a hands-down rave.

Watch "Casino Royale" at 8 p.m. on USA Network. Television RSS feed Tonight in Prime Time "Casino Royale" Daniel Craig makes a great James Bond in this 2006 reboot of the spy franchise.

Spray paint vandalism at Ione's Howard Park Skate Park, much of which is not pictured here due to its obscene nature, was one of the charges leveled against suspects arrested in late May.

We have a brand new exlcusive clip from the Season 2 premiere of Ghost Adventures , entitled Preston Castle , which will air on Friday, June 5 at 9 PM ET on the Travel Channel.

An Amador County Grand Jury report accuses several agencies of ignoring a threat to public safety - namely, a fire chief allegedly arriving drunk at fire calls.

Steve Grijalva, right, stands next to Kim Moore's hospital bed as she prepares to undergo surgery.

Crews competent to lay road asphalt have a total of $1.5 million speeding their way in Amador County.

At Ione's General Plan Workshop Tuesday, project manager Daniel Hamilton spelled out ingredients for taking the city deep into the 21st century.

From left, Ione Junior High School students Adam Camden, Karly Workman, Vanessa Williams, Jessica Windship, Emily Baldwin, Holly Kemp and Melissa Doherty enjoy a break between classes outside the school's new building, which opened its doors in November.