Three bodies were recovered by the Placer County Sheriff's Office after a hiking accident at Rattlesnake Falls.

The sheriff's office shared the identities of the three victims with PEOPLE on Wednesday, June 25. They include one man from ...

A Placer Superior Court judge on Wednesday scheduled a murder trial to start in October for a man accused of killing a hostage and wounding two other people during a 2023 police standoff at a ...

Firefighters are responding to a grass fire that started near North Auburn on Wednesday afternoon, officials said. According to Cal Fire, the fire is burning near Bell Road and Orr Creek Lane.

The murder trial of Dan Serafini, the former Major League Baseball pitcher accused of shooting and ambushing his in-laws at their Tahoe-area home, resumed Tuesday.

Authorities have identified the three men who drowned last week at Rattlesnake Falls, located off I-80 near Soda Springs.The ...

San Francisco DoorDash executive Josh Pickles and his parents from Redwood City have been identified as three of eight people killed in a tragic boating accident on Lake Tahoe. All other victims have ...

Matthew Schoenecker, 50, of Los Angeles, and Matthew Anthony, 44, of New York, lost their lives while trying to save their ...

A new wildfire was reported today at 2:17 p.m. in Placer County, California. Bell Fire has burned 0.8 acres of private land.

Robert Gary Spohr died of his wounds. Wood survived the shooting but died by suicide in March 2023; seven months later, Erin Spohr’s husband, former major league pitcher Daniel Serafini, was arrested ...

The Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) met for the Wednesday, June 18 regular meeting, starting the session with consideration of approving an “Aggregate Extension” to Alma Placer Mine.