Jessica Schatz audibly choked up when she tried to articulate what Patterson Park Academy of Music has meant to her family.

A man was arrested Monday on suspicion of recklessly starting the Gann Fire, the Cal Fire Tuolumne-Calaveras Unit announced just before 5 p.m. Wednesday. The agency alleged in a news release that ...

The causes of three fires in less than 36 hours — the Oneil Fire that started Monday night and the Court Fire that started Monday afternoon, while firefighters worked to contain the 226-acre Dove Fire ...

Children lined up in the gymnasium at Holy Family School in the North Lawndale neighborhood Monday morning, eager to tear into milk cartons and grab breakfast before another day of summer camp. Among ...

As firefighters continued to get the 225-acre Dove Fire under control Monday afternoon, a second vegetation broke out less than a mile away and prompted new evacuations, road closures and another ...

You may have heard that colorectal cancer is increasingly affecting young adults. However, it is not the only gastrointestinal (GI) cancer that doctors are diagnosing in patients below the age of 50, ...

Even if it wasn’t a real emergency, nurse Pam Johnson sensed the clock ticking as she tried to deliver a baby doll whose shoulder had lodged in the birth canal of a high-tech childbirth mannequin. An ...

As the fungus that causes Valley fever expands across the western United States and cases skyrocket in California, researchers say they may have found a new drug that can help those suffering from the ...

A brush fire that broke out Monday evening southeast of New Hogan Reservoir and Valley Springs had grown to 3,760 acres by 4 p.m. Tuesday with no containment, prompting authorities to issue evacuation ...

Guy McCarthy Jul 27, 2026 Jul 27, 2026 Updated Jul 27, 2026 The 223-acre Dove Fire, which broke out Sunday afternoon between downtown Sonora and Jamestown and prompted evacuations for more than 1,200 ...

A man was found dead Monday in a waterway near Cattle Drive Trail, east of Italian Bar Road, the Tuolumne County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement Tuesday.

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