Rancho Calaveras News

If Machelle Moore wakes up in the middle of the night and hears a toilet running, her heart sinks.

So House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is concerned that some of the harsh rhetoric in the health care debate may provoke violence.

Methods of extending water lines to dozens of Rancho Calaveras residents with dry or dwindling well supplies were presented to the Calaveras County Water District board Wednesday.

Rancho Calaveras is part of Valley Springs. That was the conclusion this week of a majority of the more than 120 Valley Springs area residents who participated Thursday night in a spirited public meeting on the question.

Rancho Calaveras is part of Valley Springs. That was the conclusion this week of a majority of the more than 120 Valley Springs area residents who Thursday night participated in a spirited public meeting on the question.

A Rancho Calaveras man will stand trial for second-degree murder in the shooting death of his roommate during a June 27 incident at the small house the two shared for about seven years.

A Rancho Calaveras man will stand trial for second-degree murder in the shooting death of his roommate during a June 27 incident at the small house the two shared for about seven years.

A Rancho Calaveras man will stand trial for second-degree murder in the shooting death of his roommate during a June 27 incident at the small house the two shared for about seven years.

One bullet was all it took to kill Michael Ferrier. Yet there could easily have been nine more.

According to CAL Fire Communications Operator Jim DeVoll at the Emergency Command Center the Mother Lode was hit with two small fires following the Sunday afternoon 410 acre Rock Creek Landfill fire in Milton.

According to the Calaveras County Sheriff's Department, Ferrier was shot by his roomate, 58 year old Robert Friend.

A Valley Springs man remained in critical condition Monday after having been shot in the abdomen over the weekend during what the Calaveras County Sheriff's Department described as a dispute with his roommate.