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On Friday, Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed Assembly Bill 2494, which would have changed the management priorities for Jackson Demonstration State Forest and California’s 13 other demonstration state forests.
An hour before the Russian River Pride parade Saturday, its grand marshal was behind the bar of his Main Street tasting room in a pink cowboy hat and a purple…
Sonoma Water, which used to be known as the Sonoma County Water Agency, and which provides water to parts of Sonoma and Marin counties, will keep inspecting every boat that…
Jim Obergefell, the lead plaintiff in the 2015 U.S. Supreme Court case that made same-sex marriage legal nationwide, will be grand marshal of the Russian River Pride parade Saturday in…
Everyone on the coast knows this, and nobody visiting believes it. The tourists pack up after Labor Day, and the sun comes out behind them like it was waiting for…
There’s no good road to Crowley. It’s a clearing in the woods west of Willits, at the summit of the Skunk Train’s line, and until Sept. 27, there’s a circus…
When Medi-Cal work requirements take effect Jan. 1, the program that’s supposed to catch Mendocino County residents who lose their coverage may narrow its own door on the same day.
In Boonville, the county fair puts apples right in its name. It’s the Mendocino County Fair and Apple Show.
Mendocino County supervisors met inside Fort Bragg’s Veterans Memorial Building on Tuesday and voted 5-0 to let the city run the hall.
Most celebratory months start on the first. Hispanic Heritage Month started Tuesday, Sept. 15. It is Independence Day in five countries. And it’s the night Mexico starts celebrating its own.
The Mendocino Unified School District has two new water tanks on its land off Little Lake Road. In July and August, it filled them with water pumped from its wells.
On Tuesday, the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors reviewed these proposed changes to the hazards section of the county’s Local Coastal Program: People who build on areas of the coast…
A cabin demoted to a storage shed. Three shipping containers that cost more than $3,500 to permit.
The Mendocino County Board of Supervisors meets Tuesday in the Fort Bragg Veterans Memorial Building, and one agenda item is whether to turn over the running of that building to…
A press conference was held Sunday afternoon with Cal Fire and county officials to update the community on the blaze, which officials said had diminished a bit due to cooler…
Anyone who wants a say in what federal regulators study before two Eel River dams come out has until 2 p.m. Friday to put it in writing, according to a…
A small gray-green bird with white eyes has been living since Aug. 31 in a thicket beside the creek at the mouth of Big River, singing a song that belongs…
Walkers leave Chico on Sunday to trek to Covelo, 100 miles west over the north coast mountains, with a wildfire burning in the county they’re headed for. They’re going anyway.
In May, Mendocino County sheriff’s deputies found a man at an illegal cannabis grow near Navarro who told them he had been forced to live and work there for two…
A 23-year-old man is in the Mendocino County Jail on $1,002,500 bail, accused of trying to kill a 53-year-old man in a stabbing Friday night at a Sunnycrest Drive property…
Logging on 926 acres in the hills west of Laytonville is stopped under two court orders at once. The First District Court of Appeal froze most timber operations there on…
A clearing in the Noyo River Canyon sports a red-topped circus tent. There’s no road access. Starting Sept. 11, the way in is a train.
A man in a red plaid shirt and a knit cap shouldered an axe the size of a surfboard, leading a line of children, wagons and parents down Franklin Street…
Vandals damaged or scattered flowers, flags and memorial items on several gravesites at a Round Valley Indian Reservation cemetery north of Covelo, the Round Valley Tribal Police Department said.
Mendocino County’s visitor economy has remained flat in recent years, while Visit Ukiah’s Facebook and Instagram views rose 89% over the past year, the Greater Ukiah Business and Tourism Alliance…
The two people found dead Aug. 30 in a vehicle that went off a hillside outside Willits were Phillip R. Colvard, 68, and his wife, Bernice D. Colvard, 57, of…
One person was taken to a hospital after a medical water rescue Thursday evening at Jug Handle State Natural Reserve near Caspar, a Cal Fire dispatch captain said Friday.
The State Water Resources Control Board has recommended a danger advisory, its highest warning for toxic algae, at Lake Pillsbury after sampling ahead of the Labor Day weekend found toxin…
Eight households on Gibney Lane and Mallory Drive, in an unincorporated area outside Fort Bragg, draw their drinking water through carbon filters installed on their wells in 1992. The owners…
Mendocino County supervisors voted 5-0 Tuesday to adopt an urgency ordinance barring any new data center in the unincorporated county, the land outside city limits. It took effect immediately and…
Mendocino County Sheriff Matt Kendall spent much of Tuesday morning’s regular Mendocino County Board of Supervisors meeting explaining what his new $4.5 million cannabis enforcement grant won’t be used for.
The city of Ukiah is dropping the annexation proposal it spent two years building, saying the plan never won the public support it needed to go forward.
Six machines work after dark, moving through 200 acres of organic vineyard outside Hopland. Nobody sits on them.
Mendocino County growers have federal approval to fill 130 wine-grape jobs this season with farmworkers brought in from abroad on temporary visas. All but two of those jobs pay $16.90…
The bill, brought by state Assemblymember Chris Rogers, D-Santa Rosa, whose district takes in the Mendocino coast, rewrites the mandate that has governed California’s demonstration state forests for decades. There…
The defense argument was that Jodine Rene Burkhart, 60, had no choice. An armed property owner had caught her loading his hay, and driving off drunk was the only way…
Most of the sea lions are out of town, which is lucky for the Noyo Harbor District.
For more than three decades, the California Conservation Corps housed its Mendocino County crews in cabins on an old dairy farm south of Ukiah, bunks the young people helped hammer…
It took the Mendo-Lake Regional SWAT Team to bring in Benjamin Miller the first time. A deputy had tried to contact him near Redwood Valley on the last day of…
Zac Robinson stopped at the end of a vine row on Monday, July 27, and pointed at a cluster turning from green to purple. Veraison, the last color change before…
The tourism vehicle Visit Mendocino County is hiring a boss. The pay is $100,000 a year and applications close Friday, Sept. 4. The job includes a marketing budget that three…
For a few weeks this summer, if you drove into Fort Bragg from the south, the ocean was just there. The old wooden fence along the west side of Main…
One of the concerns about taking out the two dams of the Potter Valley Project — Scott and Cape Horn — is the loss of water downstream for agriculture, recreation…
The Williams Fire burned 19 acres off Mendocino Pass Road east of Covelo and was 50% contained Wednesday morning, according to Cal Fire incident data.
Sheriff’s deputies arrested a Willits man near the Cahto Reservation on Tuesday evening. The arrest ended a search around Laytonville that had gone on since the weekend.
Jinny Lu, 6, of Ukiah, who as of Friday is the World’s Ugliest Dog, is tired of being lionized. Lions are cats, after all.
Ask around Mendocino County for the oldest bar, and you’ll get a confident answer, then another one, then a third. All can be right, because nobody is answering the same…
The earthquake hit at 10:44 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024, magnitude 7.0, somewhere off the Mendocino coast. Eleven minutes later the tsunami warning came with a number attached: the first…
For most of this year, the kids at Potter Valley’s elementary school were not allowed to drink from the water fountains. A notice went up on Feb. 9: boil the…
Before Angela Godwin moved north in 2024 to become Mendocino County’s agricultural commissioner, she did what any numbers person would do: she looked up her new county’s crop reports. What…