Folsom/El Dorado News

After four years of digging, the concrete has begun flowing at Folsom Dam to construct a new flood control spillway.

Both candidates boast of El Dorado County roots going back generations. Both support conservative political positions.

The United Nations is haunting El Dorado County. Critics of a 20-year-old U.N. document called Agenda 21 are becoming more vocal, blaming it for any number of ills in the county.

Of the 2,500 precinct clerks and polling inspectors who will staff the June primary at Sacramento County's 467 polling places, Virginia Nielsen is the oldest: a veteran of more presidential and gubernatorial primaries and elections than she can remember.

Commercial rooftop solar arrays and other small-scale generators are expected to gain easier connection to local electricity grids under a measure approved recently by the California Independent System Operator Corp., based in Folsom.

In an effort to maintain its current level of service, the Folsom Fire Department proposes to charge a fee when it responds to calls for rescue and emergency medical aid.

Folsom Lake College has become a staging ground for a drama born of the 9/11 era that is playing out in an intersection of fear, misunderstanding and academic frustration.

On a wooded and wildlife-rich stretch of Highway 50 in the foothills, Caltrans is about to launch an unusual road safety experiment – for critters and drivers alike.

The convicted rapist-murderer walked out of the courtroom Friday with his hands cuffed behind his back on his way to a lifetime in prison with no chance of parole, despite his insistence he had nothing to do with the sex killing of a 64-year-old woman.

A federal indictment of captured fugitive Daniel Chartraw released Thursday accuses the former El Dorado Hills resident of far more extensive fraudulent schemes than previously revealed.

The young children of Rachel Winkler, who died of stab wounds inflicted by her husband inside their Cameron Park home, will remain with their maternal grandfather, Napa artist Don Hatfield.

The Placerville City Council will hold a public budget workshop today to discuss the upcoming 2012-2013 budget.

A large white calendar on the wall behind Don Hatfield's easel reads like a soccer mom's dream.

El Dorado County supervisors rejected a compromise plan Tuesday to run an excursion train on existing rail lines west of Shingle Springs.

Five veteran El Dorado County sheriff's investigators, including a detective who worked on the Jaycee Lee Dugard kidnapping case and the teen lovers' murder saga of Steven Colver and Tylar Witt, have been reassigned to patrol units.

The high-noon showdown involving guns and El Dorado County judge candidates has been canceled, but not because anyone was chicken and ran for the hills.

The case of a fugitive jailed in Sacramento on federal fraud charges this week may have ramifications in the June 5 race for El Dorado Superior Court judge.

Kevin Cairns, the Highway 50 restaurateur convicted of assaulting people who stopped in his parking lot, will face no additional jail time, an El Dorado Superior Court judge said Friday.

Bail bondsman Kenneth Waters pleaded not guilty Tuesday in El Dorado Superior Court in Placerville.

An El Dorado County man was sentenced Monday to three months in federal prison for diverting to his own address mail meant for the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians.

Six days old, Ivan Cooper slept peacefully in his mother's arms last week, unaware of the turmoil surrounding his birth.

American River flows will increase nearly 50 percent this morning to manage snowmelt runoff out of Folsom Dam.