Tuolumne Sheriff’s Dept, Search & Rescue, CHP & Pinecrest Fire Help Locate & Rescue Lost Snowmobilers

Tuolumne Sheriff’s Dept, Search & Rescue, CHP & Pinecrest Fire Help Locate & Rescue Lost Snowmobilers

Pinecrest, CA…From the Tuolumne Sheriff’s Dept…”Sunday night, Tuolumne County Search & Rescue personnel responded to the Snow Park off Hwy 108 for a report of two lost snowmobiles. Three people, two men and one woman, left out of the Snow Park riding two snowmobiles yesterday at around 1 PM. Their plan was to ride to […]

Monday Morning Chain Control Update…Hwy 88 Temporarily Closed for Avalanche Control & Chain Controls on Hwy 108

Monday Morning Chain Control Update…Hwy 88 Temporarily Closed for Avalanche Control & Chain Controls on Hwy 108

Arnold, CA…The chain control situation is as follows. Hwy 88 is closed temporarily at Carson Spur for Avalanche Control. Hwy 4 is clear but carry chaines. Hwy 108 has controls in place starting at Pinecrest & Hwy 120 is clear. SR 4 [IN THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA AREA] IS CLOSED FROM 0.5 MI EAST OF THE […]

Traffic Update…Chain Controls From Arnold on Hwy 4 & Long Barn on Hwy 108

Traffic Update…Chain Controls From Arnold on Hwy 4 & Long Barn on Hwy 108

Arnold, CA…Caltrans has been making quick work of the latest snow layers on our local highways. From North to South…Hwy 88 is clear and without controls, Hwy 4 has controls from Arnold on up, Hwy 108 has controls from Long Barn on up & Hwy 120 is clear. Conditions can change quickly and carry chains, […]

Power Outage Update…Over 2,500 Without Power in Tuolumne County This Morning

Power Outage Update…Over 2,500 Without Power in Tuolumne County This Morning

Twain Harte, CA…This latest storm wave has created a bit of havoc in the power grid across northern California and locally in Tuolumne County. There were several large outages in the Groveland area last evening and there have bee persistent problems for a large number of customers in the Strawberry area the last couple of […]

Be Ready for Winter & Thank You for Shopping & Renting Locally at SNAC!

Be Ready for Winter & Thank You for Shopping & Renting Locally at SNAC!

Arnold, Murphys & Sonora, CA…Ever since we opened our first store in Downtown Sonora, our goal has been the same. To provide our customers with high quality, innovative outdoor products, priced so you can spend more time using your gear than paying for it. At SNAC, you’ll find affordable clothing and gear to outfit yourself […]

10 Arrested After Search Warrant Operation At Rosalinda’s

10 Arrested After Search Warrant Operation At Rosalinda’s

Jamestown, CA…Search warrant operation at local strip club results in 10 arrests…The search warrant conducted at Rosalinda’s Gentlemen’s Club on Thursday, March 1, 2018 resulted in ten people being taken to county jail. The owner/operator of the establishment, Rosalinda Aponte Sanmartin, 78 years old, was not at the business at the time of the warrant […]

Power Outage Updates…Close to 1,500 PG&E Customers Start Friday Without Power

Power Outage Updates…Close to 1,500 PG&E Customers Start Friday Without Power

Arnold, CA…Power Outage Updates…Close to 1,500 PG&E Customers Start Friday Without Power. The largest outages are in Amador County in the Pine Grove Area and in Tuolumne County in the Strawberry Area. The outage in the Strawberry area started last evening. There are also several additional single customer outages scattered about. Let’s be careful out […]

A Wanted Man Goes on Crime Spree While Running from Deputies in Twain Harte

A Wanted Man Goes on Crime Spree While Running from Deputies in Twain Harte

Twain Harte, CA…From the Tuolumne Sheriff’s Dept..”We received a call from a very observant citizen who noticed a suspicious truck at their neighbor’s vacation cabin on Superior Drive. The man driving the truck had gotten it stuck in the driveway due to the snow. Deputies arrived on scene at 7:49 and the man took off […]

Search Warrant Served Today at Rosalinda’s “Gentleman’s” Club

Search Warrant Served Today at Rosalinda’s “Gentleman’s” Club

Jamestown, CA…From the Tuolumne Sheriff’s Dept…”An undercover investigation culminating in a search warrant went forward today at Rosalinda’s Gentlemen’s Club located in Jamestown. Agents of the Tuolumne Narcotics Team (TNT) with assistance of the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC), TCSO SWAT, TCSO General Detectives, Tuolumne County Probation, Child Welfare Services, and Tuolumne County […]

Sheriff’s Dept Says Beware of Solicitation Scams

Sheriff’s Dept Says Beware of Solicitation Scams

Sonora, CA…From the Tuolumne Sheriff’s Dept….”This week our office has received numerous calls for service regarding people going door to door attempting to solicit money from residents. They may be aggressive magazine sellers, claiming to be raising money for a trip or for charity, the backstory isn’t always the same. We have determined this soliciting […]

Winter Weather Advisory Prompts Calaveras Transit Route Changes

Winter Weather Advisory Prompts Calaveras Transit Route Changes

San Andreas, CA – February 28, 2018 – Adverse weather conditions expected in higher elevations will affect the Calaveras Transit Blue Line. The National Weather Service is indicating blizzard like conditions from the early evening of February 28 until late evening March 3.  Increased levels of snow and up to thirty-eight mile an hour winds are […]

Winter Storm Warning…Heavy Snow for Foothills & Mountains this Week. Over Six Feet in Some Locations

Winter Storm Warning…Heavy Snow for Foothills & Mountains this Week.  Over Six Feet in Some Locations

Arnold, CA…A series of cold winter storms will bring periods of heavy snow and gusty winds to the foothills and mountains of interior NorCal this week. Snow will begin Wednesday afternoon and continue through the weekend. Several feet of snowfall accumulation is expected in the mountains with a foot or more across some foothill locations. […]

Heavy Snow Later this Week…As a “Miracle March” Begins?

Heavy Snow Later this Week…As a “Miracle March” Begins?

Arnold, CA….A series of cold winter storms will bring periods of heavy snow and gusty winds to the foothills and mountains of interior NorCal later this week. Snow may begin as early as Wednesday afternoon and continue through the weekend. Several feet of snowfall accumulation is expected in the mountains with up to a foot […]

Weather Closes Columbia College For The Day

Weather Closes Columbia College For The Day

Columbia, CA…Campus Alert! ALERT – Columbia College is closed today 2/26/18 – due to inclement weather. Campus History and Heritage Columbia College and Modesto Junior College are the two community colleges located in the Yosemite Community College District. The former Modesto Junior College District was expanded into the larger Yosemite Community College District in 1964 […]

Sonora Man Arrested For Alleged Sexual Assualt

Sonora Man Arrested For Alleged Sexual Assualt

Jamestown, CA…On Saturday evening, deputies responded to a home on Fourth Ave. in Jamestown for a report of a sexual assault. Deputies located 21-year-old Randall Lee Collins of Sonora, walking near the intersection of Fifth Ave. and Seventh St. in Jamestown. Collins was arrested and booked into the Tuolumne County Jail for rape by force […]

Missing Hiker Found Safe In Yosemite National Park

Missing Hiker Found Safe In Yosemite National Park

Yosemite, CA…Alan Chow, the hiker missing in Yosemite National Park since Tuesday, February 20, has been found safe today. Chow, who was backpacking alone, was spotted from a National Park Service helicopter around Noon today above Wapama Fall in the Hetch Hetchy area after an extensive search the past several days. . He was transported […]

Lock it up! Don’t Make it Easy for a Thief.

Lock it up! Don’t Make it Easy for a Thief.

Sonora, CA…From the Tuolumne Sheriff’s Dept…”There have been several vehicle break-ins reported to our office this week that occurred in the Jamestown area of Jamestown Road, Chicken Ranch Road and Seco Street. Valuables such as wallets and important paperwork were taken. These vehicles were left unlocked making it easy for the thief to take advantage […]

NCPA Employee Found Coconut “Coco” & Beau “Diddly” on Tuolumne Side of Stanislaus River

NCPA Employee Found Coconut “Coco” & Beau “Diddly” on Tuolumne Side of Stanislaus River

Murphys, CA…In another very happy ending to a local lost dog story. The NCPS’s Sandy Rainey passed this along to us. “The Pine Tree News: FYI……………Yesterday, one of our employees, Steven Popish found the two dogs on the Tuolumne side of the river just south of McKays dam. We contacted the owners, who picked up […]

Tuolumne County Sheriff’s Dept. Activity Logs Through February 14th

Tuolumne County Sheriff’s Dept. Activity Logs Through February 14th

Sonora, CA…The latest Tuolumne County Sheriff’s Deputies Activity Logs are enclosed… Sheriff’s Daily Report 02-14-2018 Sheriff’s Daily Report 02-13-2018 Sheriff’s Daily Report 02-12-2018 Sheriff’s Daily Report 02-11-2018 Sheriff’s Daily Report 02-10-2018 Sheriff’s Daily Report 02-09-2018 Sheriff’s Daily Report 02-08-2018

Stanislaus National Forest Plans 140 Acre Prescribed Fire on Mi-Wok Ranger District

Stanislaus National Forest Plans 140 Acre Prescribed Fire on Mi-Wok Ranger District

Sonora, CA…The following is information regarding a prescribed burn on the Stanislaus National Forest. Prescribed Fire Name / Ranger District: Crandall Underburn, I-Bar Unit 2901, Mi-Wok Ranger District. General and Specific Location: Project area is located along Forest Road 3N24, off Italian Bar Road (Forest Road 2N63) south of Deer Creek. Township 3 North, Range […]

Wanted Man on the Run in Tuolumne…

Wanted Man on the Run in Tuolumne…

Tuolumne, CA…Deputy V. Lee conducted a traffic enforcement stop on a black Chevrolet Tahoe on Yosemite Road at Hershey Road West in Tuolumne early this morning. There were three people in the SUV. Deputy Lee spotted a gun in the SUV just as 25-year-old Alexandro Xavier (pictured in this post) ran from the front passenger […]

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