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Just weeks away from the Fourth of July, Calaveras County has banned the use of fireworks for five months due to increasingly dry conditions as summer and the peak of fire season approaches, a county supervisor confirmed to CBS13 on Tuesday.
Bodycam video was released Tuesday of a shooting in Calaveras County during which a deputy was ambushed and a hostage was taken.
A trove of 5- to 10-million-year-old fossils of prehistoric species was discovered in the Mokelumne River watershed in Calaveras County, the East Bay Municipal Utility District announced on Tuesday.
Witnesses described moments of panic, last words from the suspect and cries from the victim following a hostage situation in Calaveras County.
Caught in the crossfire between Calaveras County deputies and police, an elderly female hostage was pulled out of her home at random. The community is now concerned for her wellbeing.
A hostage situation in San Andreas ended with a deputy and a hostage shot and the suspect being killed, authorities say.
A growing wildfire forced mandatory evacuations in rural Calaveras County just north of Valley Springs.
There is controversy brewing as several people in Calaveras County are working on plans to form a militia for protection.
A Calaveras County man is suspected of driving under the influence in a crash that left an Amador County daycare damaged.
A Calaveras County man who poisoned eight homeless people in Huntington Beach so he could videotape their reactions was sentenced Friday to four years in state prison.
A rare bald Eagle rescue on Easter Sunday was caught on video.
An investigation is underway into human remains found in a remote area north of San Andreas.
Deputies are thanking a passerby who rushed into a burning home in San Andreas and helped rescue a woman.
Authorities have seized more than $3.5 million of marijuana in raids of illegal grow houses across Calaveras County over the past few weeks.
A motorcycle rider was killed after speeding past a California Highway Patrol officer and crashing off Highway 4 late Wednesday afternoon.
Justice for Roman Lopez is just beginning after his father Jordan Piper and stepmother Lindsey Piper were arrested on charges of child abuse and torture.
Detectives are asking for help in identifying the person of interest in three suspicious fires in Calaveras County last month.
Three Calaveras County residents have been arrested after sheriff's deputies who tracked down one suspect's missing ankle monitor also stumbled on copper wire believed to be stolen and much more.
A Sacramento man has been arrested after he led law enforcement officers on a high-speed chase across three counties on a motorcycle over the weekend.
Authorities have released more details about the case where three people were arrested after a teenage girl missing for a week was found at a West Point home.
Firefighters are battling a new fire burning in Calaveras County near the community of Copperopolis early Tuesday afternoon.
An eagle rescued months ago in Calaveras County has been released back into the wild after being rehabilitated.
Authorities say the at-risk missing girl believed to have been taken by her mother from a sleepover in Calaveras County has been found.
Cal Fire is battling a vegetation fire that has burned 1,500 acres in Calaveras County.
Authorities say a helicopter made an emergency landing near San Andreas and caught fire, but everyone escaped with just minor injuries.
