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.

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

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.

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 ...