Mountain Ranch News

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.

The unemployment rates in Tuolumne and Calaveras counties has decreased slightly, according to the latest round of statistics from the California Employment Development Department.

Hemet's school board might consider inviting even younger campus representatives to its meetings after listening to a thoughtful plea for sidewalks from Dallas Montgomery.

The Southern Humboldt Community Park Board welcomed the media with a tour of the park on Monday, October 5. Earlier tours had been given to members of the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors.

CAL Fire's Emergency Command Center is reporting the Salamander Creek Drainage Fire in Calaveras County has now burned approximately one acre.

Stephen Wall, Staff Writer Posted: 09/29/2009 03:56:02 PM PDT Updated: 09/29/2009 04:02:30 PM PDT GRAND TERRACE - There's the Redlands Bicycle Classic and the Tour de France.

Challenger Dennis Dooley of Angels Camp defeated incumbent Ed Rich of Copperopolis in this week's election for the District 4 seat on the Calaveras County Water District board of directors.

The Tracy Community Choir is holding auditions for all interested singers from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday at the Grand Theatre, 715 Central Ave., Tracy.

A 1 1 2-mile public dirt road, a favorite commuter shortcut until it was closed in spring 2005, will probably never reopen because of safety concerns.

Calaveras County sheriff's deputies were justified in using potentially lethal force in an incident where a suspect and a deputy were injured by gunfire May 27, according to a report released Thursday by county District Attorney Jeff Tuttle.

Bodega del Sur Winery, owned and operated by Pacifica residents Evelyn and Victor Reyes-Umana, collected Best of Class awards and Gold and Silver medals recently at the 2009 California State Fair, the Amador County Fair and Calaveras County Fair with its 2009 releases.