Mountain Ranch News

U.S. Bank is providing nearly $22 million in financing to help Carlsbad-based Chelsea Investment Corporation develop Cesar Chavez Villas, an affordable housing complex in Coachella.

The sight of a dozen firefighters in full gear dousing a dry, grassy hillside Wednesday morning looked a little incongruous, but according to Cal Fire-Butte County officials, it was necessary.

Riley Kitchell, with the Foothill Froggers, won the Calaveras Jumping Frog Jubilee with his frog, SHHH! Don't Tell Morgan, with a jump of 20 feet 10 inches.

Buying a condominium in the mesa sunbelt in Black Mountain Ranch will stay an average investment in the community filling the hills thick with new lot estates.

The homes, many in high fire-risk areas such as Carmel Mountain Ranch and Rancho Penasquitos, recently were sent pamphlets outlining the importance of clearing brush at least 100 feet from structures, they said at a news conference.

There is an escaped fire debris burn in Calaveras County. Cal Fire is on the scene battling the blaze on the 6600 block of Railroad Flat Road near Cedar Springs Road in Mountain Ranch.