Mountain Ranch News

Jim Bass spends his days in a small workshop in Mountain Ranch, creating collectible ceramic art pieces - some inlaid with original Mayan art - while listening to rock 'n' roll music.

Ten groups have recently been awarded a combined $19,000 in grants from the Calaveras Community Foundation.

The two-story, approximately 55,460-square-foot office and research and development building in Carmel Mountain Ranch at 15250 Avenue of Science, San Diego 92128, has been sold for $9.55 million.

You need not travel far to find a good golf game in San Diego. Balboa Park Golf Course has nice elevation changes for challenging play.

Mountain Ranch Community Club will be hosting its 24th annual "Christmas in the Country" from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at The Mountain Ranch Community Hall, 8049 Washington St., Mountain Ranch.

After asking for road safety improvements and then seeing the speed limit through town increase to 45 mph instead, Mountain Ranch residents will soon get some relief.

Bringing relief to the lines of waiting motorists at the intersection of highways 12 and 26 is Calaveras County's top priority in seeking regional transportation funding.

An iconic American Thanksgiving meal prepared by an iconic American chef calls for iconic American wines.

Join fellow Stocktonians and San Joaquin County residents for the fifth annual Run and Walk Against Hunger on Thursday at the Stockton Ports Ballpark, Lincoln and Fremont streets in downtown Stockton.

CALAVERAS COUNTY Sheriff's reports MONDAY 7:30 a.m., Mountain Ranch - Someone's identity was stolen on the 11000 block of Francine Road.

In the late fifties, when the Mountain Ranch Hotel was last up for sale, it would have been charitably called a fixer-upper. Wallpaper hung from the stately home's high ceilings, there were rats in the water tank and, said current owner Tim Lane.

A Mountain Ranch man was killed in a car crash Sunday afternoon on Highway 99 south of Stockton.

The northern communities of District 5 and District 1 could become San Diego's 9th Council District in 2011.

At 11:20 CAL Fire personnel and local units responded to the burn which moved into brush for just a short period of time.

Less than two weeks after the speed limit through Mountain Ranch was raised from 35 to 45 mph, a new traffic survey may put the brakes on what some residents say has become a "speedway." Last week, the Public Works Department performed a followup to the 2008 survey that originally set the higher limits, prompted by renewed protests by residents at ...

Union Army reenactors march to their spot on the battlefield at Spring Mountain Ranch State Park on Sunday morning.

During the 2007 Civil War Days in the Battle Born State, a Civil War reenactment, Don Ancell from California, portraying President Abraham Lincoln, surveys the Union troops at Spring Mountain Ranch State Park.

Hey, your grandfather knocked over another bank -- this time he left the oxygen tank home.

A man accused of car theft who was shot and injured during an encounter in May with Calaveras County sheriff's detectives won't gain access to the personnel files of the officers, a judge ruled Friday.

Evelyn Reyes-Umana of Pacifica recently was named winner of the "Woman-Owned Business of the Year" award.