Pinecrest News

The U.S. Forest Service this weekend will cite people who bring their dogs to the Pinecrest Lake Day Use Area, Stanislaus National Forest Supervisor Susan Skalski said.

California Alumni Association has purchased Pinecrest Chalet, a year-round vacation and cabin resort in the Stanislaus National Forest on the Tuolumne River's north fork, in Pinecrest, Calif.

With a sour economy, it's becoming more difficult to afford a trip to the movies.

County Administrator Craig Pedro gave a grim presentation of the county's proposed budget at Monday night's City Council meeting, a situation that could have repercussions on city residents, officials say.

Unseasonably wet and cold weather Friday resulted in fender benders, heavy snow and a rescue effort for schoolchildren who got cold on a Tuolumne County hike.

Facing an unprecedented deficit, the Tuolumne County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday will consider approving a 2009-10 budget that would cut almost 100 full-time jobs.

Jun 5, 2009 1:24 pm US/Pacific TUOLUMNE COUNTY A group of seventh graders and their chaperones have been rescued after being trapped by a rain and snow storm in Tuolumne County.A Several students are reportedly suffering from hypothermia.

Emergency responders rescued a group of Napa area students today after they became hypothermic while hiking in the Pinecrest Reservoir area.

The National Weather Service issued a flood advisory this afternoon for small streams and creeks as a storm moves across Central California, dropping hail and up to an inch of rain an hour.

A Flash Flood Warning has been issued for central Tuolumne County until 4:15pm this afternoon.

Around 50 county government positions will likely be cut when the Tuolumne County Board of Supervisors votes on the fiscal year 2009/10 Budget on June 9th.

Mike McMullen, of Twain Harte, seasons hamburgers while camping at the Pinecrest Campground.

Tuolumne Utilities District General Manager Pete Kampa is hopeful that a proposed agreement with state water officials over the summer draw-down level of Pinecrest Lake will ensure Tuolumne County residents will continue to have clean drinking water.

PINECREST, Calif. ( -- Investigators say a 19-year-old snowboarder who died Monday at Dodge Ridge Ski Resort likely suffocated in fresh powder.

Belleview Elementary School has just joined the list of those that are closed today due to the inclement weather conditions.

For the time being Tuolumne Utilities District General Manager Pete Kampa is not overly concerned with the low snowpack level in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

A presentation at the Tuolumne Utilities District meeting on Tuesday concerning the district's current water storage outlook concluded that the recent storm probably brought enough precipitation to fill the ...

Weather permitting, motorists should expect lane closures on eastbound Interstate 74 near the Pinecrest Avenue exit and the I-474 interchanges beginning today.

January on average is the wettest month of the year, but so far has brought the area only about a tenth of an inch of precipitation.

Deaths due to vehicle accidents dropped dramatically in 2008 in Tuolumne County, while holding steady in Calaveras County.