Lake Alpine & Spicer Reservoir are OPEN Now! SNAC Arnold Rents Kayaks * Canoes * SUPs

Lake Alpine & Spicer Reservoir are OPEN Now! SNAC Arnold Rents Kayaks * Canoes * SUPs

Arnold, CA…It feels like Summer is finally here in the high country! You can now get to Lake Alpine & Spicer, so what are you waiting for? Spicer Reservoir is full! Most of our SUP’s are ON SALE this holiday weekend! Our Rental Crew will help you load up your kayaks, canoes & SUPs for […]

Apprehension of Kidnapping and Robbery Suspect Leads Deputies to Multiple Arrests for Drug Sales

Apprehension of Kidnapping and Robbery Suspect Leads Deputies to Multiple Arrests for Drug Sales

Sonora, CA…On Saturday July 1st, 2023, just before 1:00 in the morning, deputies made a high-risk traffic stop on a vehicle in the area of O’Byrne’s Ferry Road and Highway 108 after receiving information 26-year-old Alyssa Hoyopatubbi was in the vehicle. Hoyopatubbi had an outstanding felony warrant for her arrest for the crimes of robbery, […]

Lake Alpine & Spicer Reservoir are OPEN Now! SNAC Arnold Rents Kayaks * Canoes * SUPs

Lake Alpine & Spicer Reservoir are OPEN Now! SNAC Arnold Rents Kayaks * Canoes * SUPs

Arnold, CA…It feels like Summer is finally here in the high country! You can now get to Lake Alpine & Spicer, so what are you waiting for? Spicer Reservoir is full! Most of our SUP’s are ON SALE this holiday weekend! Our Rental Crew will help you load up your kayaks, canoes & SUPs for […]

Lake Alpine & Spicer Reservoir are OPEN Now! SNAC Arnold Rents Kayaks * Canoes * SUPs

Lake Alpine & Spicer Reservoir are OPEN Now! SNAC Arnold Rents Kayaks * Canoes * SUPs

Arnold, CA…It feels like Summer is finally here in the high country! You can now get to Lake Alpine & Spicer, so what are you waiting for? Spicer Reservoir is full! Most of our SUP’s are ON SALE this holiday weekend! Our Rental Crew will help you load up your kayaks, canoes & SUPs for […]

Stanislaus National Forest Opens Additional Roads Ahead of 4th of July Holiday

Stanislaus National Forest Opens Additional Roads Ahead of 4th of July Holiday

Sonora, CA…With the publication of Forest Order STF-16-2023-12, the Stanislaus National Forest has removed several Forest Service Roads from the current Season of Use Closure Extension. The current order is set to expire July 14 unless superseded sooner.  The below listed roads are now open and available for public use: Summit Ranger District 4N14, 4N26 […]

Lightning Caused Bone Fire Being Managed to Achieve Multiple Objectives

Lightning Caused Bone Fire Being Managed to Achieve Multiple Objectives

Groveland, CA…What began as a lightning-caused wildfire along Jawbone Pass in the pre-planned Cherry North Prescribed (RX) Burn Unit on the Stanislaus National Forest’s Groveland Ranger District is being managed to achieve multiple objectives. The lightning ignition was originally detected on June 15, and district fire managers immediately began work to ensure this naturally ignited […]

Mt. Havalia Prescribed Fire Fuels Reduction June 26 & 27

Mt. Havalia Prescribed Fire Fuels Reduction June 26 & 27

Tuolumne, CA…The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE) will conduct a prescribed burn operation on the Mt. Havalia Vegetation Management Program (VMP) site in Tuolumne County, adjacent to the community of Tuolumne. Smoke from the project will be visible from Tuolumne and surrounding areas. The goal of the prescribed burn is to […]

Prescribed Burns to Continue Between Pinecrest & Cold Springs

Prescribed Burns to Continue Between Pinecrest & Cold Springs

Pinecrest, CA…If conditions permit, prescribed burning operations will occur along the Crabtree Road between Cold Springs and Pinecrest for the next three days (June 21st- June 23rd). Crabtree Road will be closed from Highway 108 to the intersection of Forest Road 4N11/4N26 to protect the safety of firefighters and the public during prescribed burn operations. […]

Deputies Search for Missing Man Last Seen Swimming in Lake Don Pedro

Deputies Search for Missing Man Last Seen Swimming in Lake Don Pedro

Lake Don Pedro, CA…On Friday June 16th at about 12:30 in the afternoon, deputies responded to Don Pedro Lake, near South Bay and Rogers Creek for a report of a man who was last seen swimming in the water and was missing. TCSO deputies and Calaveras County Sheriff’s Office boat patrol deputies utilized a Remotely […]

Pine Mountain Lake Vegetation Management Program

Pine Mountain Lake Vegetation Management Program

San Andreas, CA…The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CALFIRE) Tuolumne-Calaveras Unit will be conducting a prescribed burning operation on the Pine Mountain Lake (PML) Vegetation Management Program (VMP) site, on Thursday, June 22, 2023. This project is located north of Ferretti Road between Tioga High School and Boitano Road. Burning operations will be […]

Stanislaus NF to Begin RX Burn Operations Near Pinecrest

Stanislaus NF to Begin RX Burn Operations Near Pinecrest

Sonora, CA…Taking advantage of favorable weather conditions and availability of resources, crews with the Stanislaus National Forest will begin prescribed fire operations in the Experimental Forest, approximately two miles southeast of the Pinecrest area. Operations are set to begin within the next week and crews will look to burn approximately 44 acres. The prescribed burn […]

Help Tuolumne Sheriff’s Department Locate Robbery/Carjacking Suspect

Help Tuolumne Sheriff’s Department Locate Robbery/Carjacking Suspect

Sonora, CA…We are seeking the public’s help in locating 25-year-old Alyssa Hoyopatubbi. Hoyopatubbi currently has a warrant for her arrest for crimes including robbery, kidnapping, carjacking and vehicle theft. Anyone who has seen or knows the whereabouts of Hoyopatubbi is urged to contact the Tuolumne County Sheriff’s Office at 209-533-5815. **Original** **One Arrest Made from […]

Local Fire Agencies Secure Grant Funding for Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus (SCBA) Units

Local Fire Agencies Secure Grant Funding for Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus (SCBA) Units

Columbia, CA…Columbia Fire Protection District, City of Sonora, Tuolumne City Fire, Mi Wuk/Sugar Pine Fire Protection District, and the Fire Agencies for the Sovereign Tribal Nations of the Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk and Chicken Ranch Band of Mi-Wuk were successful in a regional AFG Assistance to Firefighters Grant in the amount of $710,880 to purchase […]

Summit Crews Look to Begin Ignitions on South Fork Burn Units Near Sugar Pine

Summit Crews Look to Begin Ignitions on South Fork Burn Units Near Sugar Pine

Sonora, CA…Looking to expand their prescribed fire goals for the spring season, fire managers with the Summit/Mi-Wok Ranger District will look to burn more than 300 acres in the South Fork area, approximately one mile northeast of the town of Sugar Pine. Assuming weather conditions are favorable, crew will begin ignitions June 19 and will […]

Sonora Pass Opened at 1:30 p.m. Today!

Sonora Pass Opened at 1:30 p.m. Today!

Tuolumne County, CA…The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) formally opened Sonora Pass on State Route 108 today at 1:30 p.m. after two months of work. Sonora Pass, at 9,624 feet of elevation, is the second highest point on the state highway system maintained by Caltrans. District 10 crews began working to open the pass on […]

Search and Rescue Recovers Two Deceased Women from Tuolumne County Rivers Over the Weekend

Search and Rescue Recovers Two Deceased Women from Tuolumne County Rivers Over the Weekend

Sonora, CA…We can’t say it enough, be extremely cautious around waterways in Tuolumne County. The rivers are flowing fast, high and the water is cold. These unsafe river conditions will continue well into the summer due to the unprecedented snowfall we received over the winter. On Saturday, June 3rd, 2023, Tuolumne County Sheriff Search and […]

Have You Seen These At-Risk Missing Juveniles (Update Both Found Safe)

Have You Seen These At-Risk Missing Juveniles (Update Both Found Safe)

Sonora, CA…The Tuolumne Sheriff’s Dept. is seeking the public’s help in locating missing juveniles, 15-year-old Owen Anthony Shepherd (See photo driving cart) and 16-year-old Preston Lawrence Mueller (See truck photo). Owen and Preston were last seen yesterday evening and are believed to have left around 3:00 in the morning driving a lifted 2008 black dodge […]

USFS Update on Strawberry Prescribed Burn

USFS Update on Strawberry Prescribed Burn

Strawberry, CA…May 31, 2023, 12:38 p.m. Update Strawberry RX Prescribed Burn: We continue burning in Unit 18 today. We have Engines strategically placed along Highway 108. If you can avoid traveling on 108 above Strawberry, it would be best for the Firefighters to be able complete the burn in this area. If you need to […]

Strawberry RX Burn Update – Fire and Smoke Visible from Hwy 108 Next Few Days.

Strawberry RX Burn Update – Fire and Smoke Visible from Hwy 108 Next Few Days.

Strawberry, CA…May 30, 2023 – Fire managers have made good progress on the Strawberry Prescribed Fire having burned nearly 500 acres as of May 30. Motorists driving along the Highway 108 corridor may notice fire and smoke along the roadway as well as fire apparatus beginning Wednesday, June 1 and continuing June 9. Motorists are […]

40 Year Old Lost His Life in Collision in Round About near People of the Mountain Road

40 Year Old Lost His Life in Collision in Round About near People of the Mountain Road

Jamestown, CA…On May 28, 2023, at approximately 5:06 PM, a 40-year-old resident was driving a 2009 GMC Yukon traveling southbound on State Route 49/108 approaching the roundabout at People of the Mountain Road, at a high rate of speed. At this time, 43-year-old resident, Timothy Perez was driving a 2019 Nissan Rogue, traveling northbound on […]

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