Tuolumne News

Expert photographers, artists, naturalists and historians will lead Outdoor Adventures spanning the entire park throughout this year, according to a news release.

A water district official in south San Joaquin County is sounding the alarm that the county's namesake river could run dry this summer all the way to the edge of the Delta.

A crucial deadline for incumbent candidates has passed for the upcoming election.

Funstrummers Ukulele players of Modesto are holding a workshop presented by Lil Rev from the Milwaukee Ukulele Club.

Officers arrived on scene and found the roommate asleep. 8:40 a.m., Sonora area - A person said their friend was missing from his home on Corte De Las Ninas.

Plans for the 1,157 acre ranch property, known as Long Gulch, included 362 residential lots, a golf course, around 450 acres of set aside for open space, and 18 acres that would have been dedicated to Tuolumne County for eventual expansion of the Pine Mountain Lake Airport.

The bus was blocking traffic before it was moved. 5:59 p.m., suspicious circumstances - Flames were seen coming from a South Green Street balcony that were later confirmed to be from a grill.

Columbia College will host nearly 200 high school students for the 14th Annual Occupational Olympics held at the college.

The Tuolumne -Calaveras Unit Cal Fire station now in San Andreas , Calaveras County has been notified of an upcoming change to Sonora , Ca.

11:37 p.m., Angels Camp - A woman said there were people outside a South Main Street business making a lot of noise.

Local Cal Fire Officials say the plans to move the Tuolumne-Calaveras Unit Headquarters from its 30 year home in San Andreas has been in the works for nearly ten years.

The National Weather Service has issued an Urban and Small Stream Flood Advisory for Calaveras County and southwestern Tuolumne County until 7:15 PM.

NASA is partnering with the California Department of Water Resources to develop and apply new technology and products to better manage and monitor the state's water resources and respond to its ongoing drought.

Summerville High School and the Connections Visual and Performing Arts Academy will present "I Never Saw Another Butterfly," a drama about youths held in a World War II concentration camp, today through Saturday in the school theater in Tuolumne.

The California Department of Public Health has reported fifteen confirmed cases of measles so far this year.

NASA Ames scientists are partnering with the state's Dept. of Water Resources by sending up satellites to help measure rain, and embark on "soil moisture missions" to help document California's drought, among other things.

The county required a Mitigated Negative Declaration environmental review for the 27 acre expansion of BMM fill area, and the Central Sierra Environmental Resource Center filed a lawsuit arguing that the Supervisors should have required a full EIR.

Governor Jerry Brown has appointed a Sonora resident to the 29th District Agricultural Association Mother Lode Fair Board of Directors.

Live streaming video of Tuolumne Utilities District Meetings will be available on myMotherLode.com.

For those of you who appreciate the outdoors and are interested in California's vast and abundant natural resources, a new opportunity for volunteer training will be offered in Central Sierra counties, beginning in fall 2014.