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If you voted in Ukiah, the two candidates closest to the last seat on your City Council are now one vote apart.
Davey Bowles stood up Tuesday night to ask the Willits City Council to declare an emergency, and he started by saying there wasn’t one.
If water is a worry for seeping into your house, garage or shop when it rains hard, the city of Fort Bragg has sand for sandbags behind the Fort Bragg…
Fort Bragg police have arrested a man in an attempted murder case on West Street, a Fort Bragg police department sergeant confirmed Friday.
Ten other acts are on the bill. They play Town Hall, Tall Guy Brewing, Bainbridge Park and a tent at Noyo Headlands Park.
Ukiah would owe City Manager Sage Sangiacomo about $409,000 to $420,000 in severance if the City Council approved firing him without cause by June 30, 2027. Those figures come from…
Mendocino County missed its October target to auction off properties whose owners stopped paying their property taxes. Now the county says the sale will wait until March.
The rail authority that oversees the Amtrak bus through Mendocino County plans to put off a study of possible cuts after people along the route objected.
Councilmember Scott Hockett told the Fort Bragg City Council on Monday that he had changed his mind about the city’s housing rules.
Mendocino Brewing Co., the business that made Red Tail Ale and opened California’s first brewpub after Prohibition, is in federal bankruptcy court. The company didn’t ask to be there.
On election night, Robert Bazzani was in fifth place for Ukiah City Council, 124 votes behind Mayor Susan Sher. A week later, he trails her by five votes for the…
If you farm or garden around Ukiah and buy your weed killer at the Tractor Supply on Airport Park Boulevard, the state is about to change what that store can…
Shiner surfperch caught beside the former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in San Francisco carried more than 10 times the PCBs the state says make a fish unsafe for anyone to…
Fort Bragg is asking people what it’s like to find or keep a home in town as the city writes a plan to make room for 668 more homes.
On election night, the three incumbents on the Ukiah City Council held the top three spots. On Tuesday morning, with new results issued, a challenger was in first and one…
Ann Marie Cesario has lived near the Skunk Train for 26 years. “It’s never bothered me except for the last couple of years when they put the new mega horn…
Type “dog license” into the search box on the county’s new website and the Dog Licenses page comes up first, with the date it was published and a line about…
On the lower Russian River, a lot of delays get blamed on “River Time.” Mendocino County runs on something similar. Call it Mendo Time.
MENDOCINO CO., 119/26 — About four weeks ago, someone broke into a shipping container behind the Fort Bragg Food Bank. The container had been turned into a freezer. Whoever broke…
Thanksgiving is Thursday, Nov. 26. The restaurants that have said they’re open are all on the coast, and most serve one set menu at one price and want reservations now.…
Until June 1, being a veteran was enough to keep someone on CalFresh in Mendocino County without proving they worked. Now it isn’t.
November is Mendocino County Mushroom Month, and Leslie Krongold points to two accessible events on the coast.
Mendocino County offered to move Mark Walker’s folk-art sculptures into a Willits park. It would pour a concrete base, put up a fence and take care of them for five…
The state has $1 million for cities, tribes, harbor districts and nonprofits that can watch a beach, a bluff or a kelp bed through what forecasters say could be a…
Saturday is International Merlot Day, and Mendocino County has medal-winning merlots to celebrate. The county’s growers, though, crushed almost 30% less of the grape last year and got paid less…
Palace Hotel owner Tom Carter was asked to come to the Ukiah City Council Wednesday, Nov. 4 with a letter from Ruff & Associates, an architecture firm led by Richard…
A crash at the top of the Willits grade killed at least one person Friday morning and blocked southbound U.S. Highway 101, according to the California Highway Patrol.
Sport crabbers heading out of Noyo Harbor on Saturday, Nov. 7, can drop hoop nets and crab snares over the side. Their crab traps have to stay home.
Democrat Mike McGuire won the 1st Congressional District seat Tuesday, with inland Mendocino County backing him over Republican James Gallagher by a wider margin than the district as a whole,…
Since at least February, people have brought up Ukiah’s license plate cameras during public comment at City Council meetings, according to council minutes. On Wednesday night, police told the council…
Sage Sangiacomo was 17 when he went to work for the city of Ukiah. He spent summers in the community services division, then held many different jobs with the city.…
The Mendocino County Board of Supervisors accepted the county’s first-quarter budget report Tuesday, and Supervisor Ted Williams said the balanced budget rests on decades of not paying for roads.
The creek called Dutch Charlie on federal maps has another name, Shaahnaa’ Lhook’. It means “creek with salmon.” The state now plans to help return the bottom of that creek…
A 19-year-old Fort Bragg driver was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of drugs after a two-vehicle crash Tuesday night on Highway 20 that sent the other car…
Mendocino County’s registrar of voters has refused a federal prosecutor’s demand to turn over Social Security numbers, driver’s license information and registration files for 23 county voters the Justice Department…
Mendocino Railway owes the state its answers on how to clean up Fort Bragg’s Mill Pond by Tuesday, Nov. 17. One week later, the first of this winter’s king tides…
Mendocino County budgeted $1.4 million too little this year for the private company that provides medical care at the county jail. On Tuesday the Board of Supervisors approved the money…
Every figure below comes from state, federal or county records covering 2025 or 2026.
Fort Bragg’s commercial crab boats won’t fish on Dec. 1. California’s Department of Fish and Wildlife pushed back the commercial Dungeness crab season to at least Jan. 1, 2027, along…
Rich Parducci started learning his family’s wine business at 12, in the vineyards, on the bottling line, in the lab, the cellar and the crush pad. Mendocino Winegrowers Inc. has…
The Ukiah City Council will take up the Palace Hotel again Wednesday, Nov. 4, when city staff are to bring options for what the city can do next about the…
Ukiah is supposed to finish closing its old landfill on Vichy Springs Road by Saturday. It won’t. The city is sending a letter Wednesday asking for one more year.
For the first fall in more than 30 years, North Coast Opportunities has no Head Start classroom on the Mendocino coast. The nonprofit pointed to state-mandated transitional kindergarten, the free…
Mendocino’s new fire hydrants are purple. The village’s historical review board would like them to be a little less purple.
GOV. GAVIN NEWSOM HAS ORDERED California agencies to identify stretches of Highway 1 vulnerable to winter flooding and landslides while temporarily easing environmental permitting requirements for projects intended to protect…
Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday ordered state agencies to find the stretches of state Highway 1 most at risk from El Nio storms this winter. The order puts preventive work…
A new live-in mental health treatment center in Ukiah has taken in its first residents. “This is the first time I’ve come to this meeting to say that it’s running,”…
UPDATE 8:46 A.M. — A magnitude 4.0 earthquake struck at 5:01 a.m. Wednesday about 6 miles north of Lake Pillsbury, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The epicenter was in…
Times have been tough for downtown Hopland businesses. Work on new sidewalks and a fiber line has blocked customers and parking.
Fort Bragg handed out 14 Mayor’s Well Done Awards Monday night. Winners included a consignment shop that builds a nonprofit donation into its prices, a mural on a brewery wall,…