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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,…
This story is part of Islands and Valleys, a monthly tour of Mendocino County’s 13 American Viticultural Areas.
A 40-year-old Salinas man died Sunday night on U.S. Highway 101 near Ukiah after he lost control of his motorcycle, was thrown from it and was struck by a Kia,…
Monday night’s Fort Bragg City Council meeting opened with awards for local businesses. Then, eight days before the election, it turned to anger over the campaign.
Fentanyl deaths in Mendocino County fell for the fourth year in a row in 2025, according to early figures from the California Department of Public Health. Next door, Lake County…
A person died Sunday night when a motorcycle and another vehicle collided on southbound U.S. Highway 101 near the Highway 253 on-ramp, south of Ukiah, according to the California Highway…
Rangjung Yeshe Gomde California, a Tibetan Buddhist retreat center off state Route 271 near Leggett, meets in a converted horse barn that its director says is “pretty much at capacity.”…
On the last night of their stay at the Mendocino Hotel, a man got out of bed for a glass of water and found a woman standing in the room.…
If your home is insured through the California FAIR Plan, your rate is changing. For many policyholders, that means a bigger bill.
Voters in Laytonville, Leggett and Covelo who want to hand their ballots straight to the county before Election Day have no drop box close to home. The nearest one open…
The new solar panels at Nelson Family Vineyards don’t take up any farmland. All 252 float on the irrigation pond.
A Mendocino County jury Wednesday found a Ukiah man guilty of second-degree murder in the death of a 1-year-old boy, one of two brothers left for hours beside the railroad…
The ocean off the Mendocino coast is already running high, and printed tide tables probably won’t be “remotely accurate” this winter, a National Weather Service meteorologist said Wednesday.
Board of Supervisors Chair Bernie Norvell swore in Mendocino County’s new chief executive officer and its new top lawyer together Tuesday, a few minutes after the board voted 5-0 to…
UnitedHealthcare is pulling its AARP Medicare Advantage plan out of Mendocino County on Jan. 1. After that, only one company will sell Medicare Advantage plans here: Imperial Health Plan of…
Mendocino County has had $408,000 to spay and neuter cats and dogs since last November. As of Tuesday, it had committed about $41,000 of it.
A BLUE WHALE that died off the Mendocino Coast in 2009 finally has a home.
A campaign mailer says Ukiah’s three City Council incumbents “voted to give themselves a 73% pay increase.” Mayor Susan Sher calls it “plain and simple, a hit piece containing misleading…
Of the 38 people who tried to legalize a home under Mendocino County’s last amnesty, 12 made it all the way through.
PG&E plans to start repairing a void at the base of Cape Horn Dam by Nov. 20, according to a letter the utility filed with federal dam-safety regulators Oct. 6.
A blue whale that died off the Mendocino Coast in 2009 finally has a home.
Say you’ve lived in a cabin in the hills for 20 years. It was built long before you got there, and nobody ever got a permit. Then a neighbor complains.…
Mendocino County supervisors will vote Tuesday on a new top lawyer for the county: Michael Rossi, a longtime lawyer in the Santa Clara County Counsel’s Office. The job would pay…
The Mendocino County Sheriff's Office on Thursday named Alexander Gonzalez-Gonzalez, 44, of Ukiah as the father investigators believe killed his two children and then himself Oct. 9 at a home…
The one county agency charged with checking up on Mendocino County’s 50 special districts says it can’t make any of them do anything.
Sara Pierce has run Mendocino County government as interim chief executive since July. On Tuesday, the Board of Supervisors votes on whether to make the job hers for three years,…
Eeeee-AWWWW. Bong-bong. Ksshhhhhhhhhh. That was the sound of getting online over a phone line. A 56K modem topped out at 56 kilobits per second coming in and 33.6 going out.
An arson fire destroyed Fort Bragg’s library in September 1987. The Friends of the Fort Bragg Library turned an old funeral home on Laurel Street into a library, according to…
No Kings comes back to five Mendocino County towns Saturday with a different ask: vote early. Fort Bragg is bringing large letters and yard signs.
The new state budget includes $900,000 for Mendocino County to fix up the fairgrounds in Boonville, with the drinking water system the main focus, the county said in a news…
Kai Poma, the tribal nonprofit that took ownership of Blues Beach from Caltrans in July, has asked the California Coastal Commission for permission to put a steel swing gate at…
The planned fix-up of the Willits library now costs more than four times what the county first set aside. Along the way, the design picked up new windows, restrooms, lighting,…
Mendocino County’s civil grand jury asked the county to draft written rules by Thursday, Oct. 15, for applying state fire-safe law, including to homes built without permits. The county’s answer…
The Fort Bragg City Council on Tuesday backed away from banning the fastest e-bikes on the Coastal Trail. Council members said they’d rather set a 15 mph speed limit for…
In May, Willits finished building solar carports, solar panels on raised frames that shade parking spaces, over the Sports Park and Skate Park parking lots. Now city staff say the…