Heavy snow from storm impacts travel in Sierra
Team coverage on the traffic impacts of the overnight snow storm in the Sierra.
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Team coverage on the traffic impacts of the overnight snow storm in the Sierra.
A 15-year-old boy was rescued from a Northern California mine shaft, officials said Monday.
The Placer County Sheriff's Office announced a Jane Doe cold case breakthrough on Monday.
The plan includes significant infrastructure upgrades, like a new gondola, while also prioritizing environmental concerns and fuel reduction projects.
A California highway that connects the Bay Area to the Central Valley is closed Saturday afternoon after high winds caused a crash, while eastbound Interstate 80 in the Sierra is halted due to spinouts, officials say.
The fire prompted a massive response from crews across the state, including five strike teams out of Auburn in Placer County.
The National Transportation Safety Board says it opened an investigation into a Tesla semi-truck crash and fire on the I-80 freeway in Placer County.
A Tesla big rig that caught fire kept both directions of California's Interstate 80 closed in the Sierra Nevada for more than half a day on Monday.
Authorities say the car-to-car shooting along Interstate 80 near Auburn Friday night that left two people hurt is an isolated incident.
Authorities are investigating what led up to a car-to-car shooting in Placer County.
Three convicted felons from the Bay Area were arrested on Tuesday after dozens of guns were stolen from a gun store in Placer County last month, deputies said Wednesday.
Part of the North Lake Tahoe shoreline in Carnelian Bay is closed due to a sewage spill caused by damage to a main pipeline, officials say.
A woman behind bars for a crash that killed a Vacaville police officer on Thursday had a bench warrant out for her arrest in Placer County at the time of the crash, prosecutors said.
An evacuation warning was lifted for a fire in rural Placer County near Lincoln on Friday after burning more than 250 acres.
Authorities located a group of hikers missing within the fire zone of a Northern California wildfire that erupted over the weekend.
Firefighters are battling a 168-acre fire that was reportedly started by an escaped campfire found by hikers in the Tahoe National Forest on Sunday evening, officials said.
Two people suffered critical injuries in an explosion inside a Placer County mine shaft, officials said Friday.
We first told you about Diesel when he went missing in 2019 and volunteers searched for weeks but never found him. Now, a new video has surfaced with a clue as to where he's been all this time.
Families of four of the five Marines killed when their Osprey crashed in California in 2022 have filed a lawsuit alleging the aircraft's manufacturers failed to address known mechanical failures that led to the deaths.
A community in Newcastle is rattled after a mobile home goes up in flames, following being struck by lightning on Saturday evening.
Interstate 80 reopened Sunday morning with no chain restrictions after a late-season storm dropped snow in the Sierra and closed the interstate for multiple hours due to multiple spinouts and collisions over Donner Summit.
A California Highway Patrol officer is in the hospital after officers say he was hit by a driver who is suspected of running a red light in Auburn Friday morning.
A Northern California school district is being sued by the state over allegations the district failed to carry out corrective actions in a controversial gender notification policy adopted last summer.
A man armed with a knife was shot dead by a California State Parks ranger near Palisades Tahoe, officials said Friday.
Three men off-roading in their trucks got stranded overnight, deep in the snow earlier this month in remote Placer County near Foresthill. It happened on the night of Jan. 6 when Chris Rose, his stepson and friend Brian Carlon adventured past the China Wall as snow was moving in.
