The fireworks won't be the only booming that Lake Tahoe visitors will hear on Independence Day.

A dry and mild southwest flow continues across the Tahoe area between an upper level high over Arizona and a trough of low pressure off the Pacific Northwest coast.

The Tahoe Regional Planning Agency has received a $770,489 grant from the State Water Board for a program that will help homeowners implement erosion-control measures - then measure how well they are working.

Three lanes and roundabouts still may be in the cards for a stretch of Highway 28 through Kings Beach.

July 4 is a day away, and Lake Tahoe Basin law enforcement authorities are on edge.

WASHINGTON - High gasoline prices have dramatically changed Americans' views on energy and the environment, with more people now viewing oil drilling and new power plants as a greater priority than energy conservation than they did five months ago,...

The hand-crafted chocolate experts at L.A. Burdick have created two new boxed chocolate offerings, one honoring Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama and one for Republican John McCain.

Inspired by the colors and crackles of Fourth of July firecrackers, these miniature cakes are studded with flecks of color and go down with a bang, thanks to a sprinkling of totally retro Pop Rocks candy.

Area Transit Management, which operates the city's BlueGO bus system and the South Shore casino shuttle, is under fire for allegedly eliminating casino shuttles in violation of its operating agreement, not maintaining buses and losing a Chevrolet...

An El Dorado Hills man has been arrested for allegedly forcing a teenage girl into prostitution.

THE VILLAGES — Peggy Hill of the Village of Country Club Hills had her hands full raising six daughters years ago in Youngstown, Ohio. Four of the six daughters got her up very early several times a week — they were swimmers.

The California Highway Patrol sets up to help ensure the new state law governing use of cell phones in motor vehicles is followed. Are you ready to go hands-free?

BluePoint Energy Inc. has signed contracts and received customer acknowledgments for its electricity demand response program that it expects will generate more than $12.6 million of revenue over the next three years.

Chapeau, Inc. d/b/a BluePoint Energy (OTCBB:CPEU) today announced that it has successfully executed demand response aggregation agreements with 24 commercial, institutional and industrial demand response customers in California and Hawaii totaling 22 megawatts of demand response assets now currently under contract.

EL DORADO HILLS, Calif.----Chapeau, Inc. d/b/a BluePoint Energy today announced that it has successfully executed demand response aggregation agreements with 24 commercial, institutional and industrial demand response customers in California and Hawaii totaling 22 megawatts of demand response assets now currently under contract.

MTV is offering advertisers a jazzy new way to quantify their media spends. The cable net has contracted with Marketing Evolution, El Dorado Hills, Calif., to offer a system based on meeting benchmarks including awareness, relevancy, new purchase intent, purchase loyalty and advocacy.

“Customer Ready” Preliminary Reports, Commitments, and Guarantees using the most sophisticated title production system available. [PR.com - June 29, 2008]

Ryan Anderson didn't pay a great deal of attention to the first 15 picks of Thursday's NBA Draft. Once the second half of the first round began, however, the excitement and tension around the Anderson household in El Dorado Hills started to build.

Backstage before dress rehearsal, 14-year-old Mary Nye looks at the clothes she will model at the Pure Fashion Show.

Outskirts Press, Inc. has published Looking Back: Whatever Did I Miss? by Ralph "Pidge" Davies, which is the author’s most recent book to date. The 6 x 9 Paperback in the Autobiography category is available worldwide on book retailer websites such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble for a suggested retail price of $16.95. Looking Back is also available in its 6 x 9 Hardback w/ Jacket edition for ...