El Dorado County News

Ibrahimi, 46, climbed on his first bull at age 14, but his 118-pound frame was no match for the 1,800-pound beast.

The fate of Horizon Charter School and its 2,700 students is in the hands of Western Placer Unified's school board after allegations of fiscal mismanagement and complaints from parents.

Parker Development's management team defended the proposed Marble Valley project during the June 13 El Dorado Hills Community Services District Board of Directors meeting.

Max, left, and Nick of Haunted by Heroes perform at the El Dorado County Fair. The band from Pacifica could likely be the future of rock and roll.

And THE event of the Season is The Belltower Brewfest in Placerville on Saturday the 29th of June from 6 to 9 PM.

Summer Meal Sites provides parents and referral agencies with a list of locations where children may receive free nutritious meals during school vacation and off-track periods.

The sheriff's office asks people who may have been a victim of these thefts to contact Detective Paul Kuhn at 530-573-3022 or 530-573-3000.

United Way's campaign to collect toilet paper for nonprofits in Sacramento, Yolo, Placer, El Dorado and Amador counties collected 229,485 rolls of toilet paper.

A state political watchdog agency says a letter it issued Monday, saying an El Dorado County supervisor didn't have a conflict of interest in board votes, shouldn't be interpreted as supporting him in a separate criminal case.

El Dorado Wine Country is located in the Sierra Foothills, an hour from South Lake Tahoe and Sacramento and only two hours from San Francisco and Reno.

June 17, 2013 at 10:00am the Food Bank will formally break ground on a new 20,000 square food community facility that will serve as Food Bank of El Dorado County's permanent home.

The El Dorado County Fair, which runs from June 13-16, is held at the El Dorado County Fairgrounds in Placerville.

The food drive is the perfect springboard for programming on topics such as nutrition, hunger and food insecurity, cooking, healthy eating and living, gardening, and more.

Starting Friday, June 14, there will be a new Certified Farmers' Market open to the public.

State regulators imposed a record $11 million fine Thursday on the operators of a renegade gold mine in the Sierra foothills east of Sacramento.

A woman was found dead this afternoon in a pickup truck that crashed on a winding rural road in southern El Dorado County.

Situated in the Sierra foothills at an elevation of 1,860 feet and with a population of 10,400, Placerville is the county seat of El Dorado County.

The four-county region added residents at a slow pace between 2010 and 2012, with Asians and Hispanics accounting for most of the growth, according to new U.S. Census Bureau estimates released today.

In a peculiar turn of events, California's Fair Political Practices Commission said Monday that, contrary to the District Attorney's allegations, Nutting did not have a conflict of interest when he voted to fund two fire districts.

Since 2011 music lovers in the greater Sacramento area have been delighted by Whoopie Qats' unique blend of classic rock and soul covers and original music.