To help consumers make more informed purchasing decisions, Mercury Insurance recently released its annual rankings of the ...

(Feature Impact) With ongoing uncertainty surrounding global oil prices, more U.S. consumers are buying and showing more ...

Automated license plate reader cameras and their potential to track and share information about people, their locations, and their vehicles are among the most controversial new technologies being ...

The search continued Thursday for a 58-year-old Modesto man who disappeared Saturday afternoon while paddleboarding on Beardsley Reservoir, about 5 miles east of Strawberry. Arturo Daniel Duran was ...

Here’s a look at arts and entertainment events happening this week in Tuolumne and Calaveras counties. To submit an event for consideration in a future publication, email Weekender Editor Margie ...

Thomas Zordani flew from his home in Denver to Phoenix for a consultation with a Mayo Clinic neurosurgeon, hoping to find out what could be done to treat his debilitating headaches after worrisome ...

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A graduate of Soulsbyville Elementary and Sonora High School survived a traumatic commercial crab boat wreck in a winter Alaska storm in the dangerous Bering Sea that required U.S. Coast Guard ...

Tuolumne County residents will have an opportunity this weekend to learn more about the dangers of fentanyl, hear from families affected by the drug and receive training on how to respond to an ...

As a new school year begins, some classrooms may use artificial intelligence tools to flag a student struggling with classwork, track attendance or try to raise reading scores. But as school districts ...

Calaveras County is moving to temporarily prohibit the development of large-scale data centers while it studies their potential impacts, which raises questions about whether Tuolumne County will take ...

JJ Apodaca sent the drone up over the ridge because he had to see for himself. It had been a month since the remnants of Hurricane Helene brought torrential rain to the mountains of Western North ...