Sonora News

A planned arts class with local artist Tracy Knopf became a way to let students at Curtis Creek Elementary School in Sonora work through the scary experience of the Rim fire, which struck far too close to home for many of them.

The Tuolumne City Museum has postponed its "Holiday Traditions" Christmas Open House until next Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 14 and 15 from 1-4 p.m. each day.

Columbia College Community Choirs with Orchestra will present sounds of the season at 7:30 p.m. tonight and at 3 p.m. Sunday at the Sonora Opera Hall, 250 S. Washington St., Sonora.

Friday's overnight snowstorm brought several inches of snow to the foothills and more than a foot to higher elevations, knocking out power to thousands of people and snarling roads.

Sonora 8 outages impacting 3,783 customers Sonora 10 outages impacting 3,820 customers, Mono Vista1 outage impacting 169 customers , Pine Mountain Lake 1 outage is impacting 584 customers During heat or snow, overburdened electric cables, transformers, and other electrical equipment can fail.

This weekend's storm, which could bring snow as low as 500 feet in elevation, has prompted emergency response crews to open three warming shelters in Calaveras County.

Before I ever visited San Felipe, I dismissed it as a Spring Break destination for those unwilling to pay for a flight to Cancun, or Cabo--in other words, the Laughlin of Spring Break in Mexico.

The National Weather Service issued a "Winter Storm Warning" for the west slope of the Sierra Nevada, recommending people not travel except in emergencies due to severe winter weather conditions, including downed trees and power lines.

The Peaceful Oak interchange project, off of the new section of the East Sonora Bypass, is up for discussion as to whether it should be funded.

In this photo provided by the U.S. Forest Service, a member of the BLM Silver State Hotshot crew using a drip torch to set back fires on the southern flank of the Rim Fire on Pilot Peak, Calif., on Aug. 30, 2013.

The Enochs High School drama and biotech forensic departments will present "Where the Sidewalk Ends," based on the beloved poetry of Shel Silverstein, along with original student poetry and contemporary music at 6 p.m. tonight and 2 p.m Saturday in the campus multipurpose room, 3201 Sylvan Ave. Enochs students will be accompanied on guitar by Ryan ... (more)

The annual Murphys Open House will take place from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday in downtown Murphys.

Governor Jerry Brown announced today he has appointed Kate P. Segerstrom to replace retiring Judge Eric DuTemple in the Tuolumne County Superior Court.

One fifth-grade class on Wednesday read the story of the phoenix, a mythological bird rising from the ashes to be more beautiful than before - a story akin to the Sonora Elementary School community after a Nov. 23 fire that destroyed most of the contents of 15 classrooms.

NASA has selected four California companies to perform facility construction and modifications at the agency's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif.

Tuolumne Sheriff's Deputies conducted a search of a parolee's house and found guns on Monday.

The storm would bring a smattering of snow to those lower elevations, but could dump more than 5 inches over Sonora and Angels Camp.

Sonora Regional Medical Center has put up and turned on its Christmas lights. This year's decorations were revealed at the 3rd Annual Festival of Lights held yesterday, December 3rd.

Sonora, CA -- The Tuolumne County District Attorney's Office wants to try the arson suspect in the Sonora Elementary School fire as an adult.

A community wide Book Drive continues through Sunday, to help replace the more than 2,000 classroom library books lost in the Sonora Elementary School fire.