The centerpiece is the stunning 3,720-square-foot lodge featuring timbers sourced from a historic train station ...

Justin Kennedy had long envisioned more than a cornfield when he gazed at the plot of family land a half-mile from where he ...

A building fire was reported Tuesday afternoon in the Cameron Park area of El Dorado County. Fire crews were dispatched ...

Drought-stricken governments in west-central Kansas have escalated their fight for water rights from state to federal court, ...

A fast-spreading wildfire in the Shingle Springs area, California, has prompted mandatory evacuations, with the flames, the Bonanza Fire, is burning through roughly 62 acres in El Dorado County.

The El Dorado County Fire Protection District is mourning the loss of a fire marshal who died while snorkeling in Hawaii. The district said Fire Marshal and Division Chief Lucas Shepard died on ...

The El Dorado County Animal Services Shelter, at 6435 Capitol Ave. in Diamond Springs, will be open to house animals displaced by the evacuation order. If no one answers the door, please call (530 ...

Officials say leashed or kenneled animals are allowed. Animal evacuations can go to the El Dorado County Animal Services West Slope Animal Shelter at 6435 Capitol Ave. in Diamond Springs.

Images: AP/AFP/Getty Images Composite: Mark Kelly The Supreme Court on Tuesday will hear what could be a landmark property-rights case (Sheetz v. County of El Dorado) with major economic implications.

Durst, a lifelong county resident, said her campaign for El Dorado, Calif.,’s statehood is beginning to pick up steam. Secession is certainly a long shot, but there is a larger principle at stake.

El Dorado County, located just east of Sacramento and bounded by the border between California and Nevada, encompasses just under 1,800 square miles and has a population of about 191,000 residents ...

The latest effort to secede from California is growing in rural El Dorado County, which sits just east of Sacramento and has fewer than 200,000 residents. But experts say it's unlikely to take hold.