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Nobody has publicly proposed building a data center in Mendocino County. On Tuesday the Board of Supervisors decided to investigate a pause on that possibility just in case.
Summer is the season that needs no defense and gets one anyway. Everyone claims to love it, nobody agrees on it, and half the words we use for it secretly…
Pickup trucks lined University Road at the Hopland Research and Extension Center on the morning of June 30, their drivers gathered in the shade at the edge of a sunny…
In a damp burrow in the coastal scrub of Point Arena, an animal is drinking. It will drink again within the hour, and again after that, all day, every day,…
By July, the rain is done. You know it, the soil knows it, and every plant in the yard is about to find out what kind of gardener you really…
The ground that burned to the foundations during Lake County’s Valley Fire in 2015, on a fault the U.S. Geological Survey rates capable of a magnitude 7 earthquake, is now…
The bug most likely to give you Lyme is too small to feel.
THE GROUND THAT BURNED to the foundations during Lake County’s Valley Fire in 2015, on a fault the U.S. Geological Survey rates capable of a magnitude 7
On Tuesday, the board set aside a resolution to terminate the Master Tax Sharing Agreement and directed a joint meeting with the City of Ukiah and an outside consultant on…
Those attending the FERC scoping in Ukiah ended up speaking to a court reporter in private.
Forward progress stopped, evacuation orders lifted at 1:32 p.m.
Days before their contract runs out, Mendocino County's union workers got a 1% raise offer. Two years ago, the supervisors gave themselves 16%.
Sonoma County’s official homeless count held nearly steady this year — 1,951 people tallied on a single night in January, one fewer than in 2025. But a
Don’t worry: the fog will burn off by midday…late afternoon…evening?
The community action agency cites federal cuts. A 2025 audit found a $3 million accounting error.
The Santa Rosa City Council voted unanimously to adopt a $575.9 million budget for the fiscal year that begins July 1, eliminating 27 positions and tapping reserves to close an…
The Hill Road crossing over Mill Creek that east-side Round Valley residents know as the Green Bridge gave out under a car on June 12. The people who depended on…
On June 12, Sonoma County supervisors adopted a $2.9 billion budget built around a single bet: that Washington is about to push the cost of the safety net onto the…
Piner's Nursing Home, a Napa care facility with roots going back to 1946, quietly changed hands last week for $6.25 million and has been renamed Napa Community Health Center —…
Federal agriculture and interior officials convened a meeting Monday at the White House with PG&E and a Southern California water district over the future of the Eel River — and…
The town of St. Helena got its first municipal water company on July 27, 1878. The St. Helena Star announced it that morning: "It gives us great pleasure to record…
DESCENDANTS OF THE POMO who survived the 1850 Bloody Island Massacre still live around Clear Lake. Many can’t drive into town without passing a name that, to them, honors one…
For more than two years, getting the mail in this town at the northern tip of Mendocino County meant a half-hour drive up Highway 101 to Garberville. On Monday morning,…
A dinner at The French Laundry runs about $425 a head before the first course lands. Three people who used to wash its dishes and work its dining room say…
Steve Amato is still out working his 38 acres of cabernet off Feliz Creek Road. He prunes. He sprays. He suckers the vines. He mows the grass between the rows…
A bridge on Hill Road near Covelo gave way Friday as a vehicle crossed it, dropping the car onto its roof beside the Eel River and leaving the driver with…
Sonoma County supervisors have dropped plans to ask voters this November to strengthen Measure P, the 2020 initiative that expanded the powers of the county's independent police watchdog — a…
For half a century, North Coast Opportunities, based in Ukiah, has been part of the floor under Mendocino and Lake counties — the agency that fed people going through cancer…
Every summer a line of volunteers in masks and wetsuits floats down the South Fork Eel, shoulder to shoulder across the current, counting the one fish almost everyone on the…
Some guy at the end of the bar swears it’s gotten hotter out by the Narrows since they widened U.S. Highway 101. Normally you let that kind of thing slide,…
On the Mendocino coast, the question isn’t whether you can bring the dog. It’s to which beach. The rules change every few miles: off-leash at a couple of spots, a…
Mendocino County’s supervisors cut the county budget Tuesday, and by the end of the day, everyone knew where the money went. On paper the proposed budget is balanced — but…
Mendocino County supervisors set aside two days to work through next year’s budget. They finished in one.
Mulch isn’t optional — and drip on a timer is the gold standard.
Huffman charges that Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins is “politically freelancing” on a Southern California bid for the Eel River dams.
Plants sold at Costco stores around California this spring, the Ukiah warehouse among them, harbored the glassy-winged sharpshooter — an insect that can spread Xylella fastidiosa, the bacterium behind the…
The kittens are beginning to show up at the Mendocino County animal shelter in Ukiah. A few at first. Then a few more each week. By mid-summer, there will be…
There’s a window most mornings in June when Coleman Valley Road goes from full sun to soft gray inside a quarter mile, and the air gets so wet your bumpers…
Mendocino County supervisors will open two days of budget hearings Tuesday with a legally balanced $106.7 million spending plan that masks a deep structural deficit by relying on $2.6 million…
Longtime gardeners got just 15 days notice before the water was shut off May 23.
Almost all will learn a different river.
Mendocino County is not in a drought. That was the message Tuesday, May 19, from county Department of Transportation staff, who delivered the first formal drought briefing since the county…
The Elsinore Valley Municipal Water District wants to buy the Potter Valley Project — but the physics of the system make the bid nonsensical. A look at what the project actually does, and why a Southern California water agency's offer doesn't hold water.
LEE MARTINELLI SR. IS 87, and he can read his family on the trunks of his vineyard the way other people read a photo album. On the 60-degree slope of…
The board of Ukiah Natural Foods Co-op spoke publicly for the first time this week, more than three weeks after most of the store’s staff walked off the job and…
LAST SUMMER, paddlers who pulled their boats onto a wet strip of sand near Forestville in Sonoma County were met by private security guards and signs telling them to leave.…
MENDOCINO CO., 5/15/26 — The Elsinore Valley Municipal Water District wants to buy the Potter Valley Project. The district sits in Riverside County, more than 500 miles south of the Eel River. It has never run a hydroelectric dam. Its vice president, Darcy Burke, told a podcast in late April t...
MENDOCINO CO., 5/13/26 — Cannabis has collapsed from its boom years, and wine is contracting. Coastal tourism is one of Mendocino County’s few industries still pulling crowds — but the county doesn’t support its primary tourism marketing platform, Visit Mendocino County, at least not with the fun...
MENDOCINO CO., 5/12/26 — Clean, moving water may be the fastest single addition you can make to attract birds to your yard. A shallow basin works. A small fountain works. Even a slow drip onto a saucer will do it. Keep it shallow, change the water often, and scrub the basin; a dirty bird bath can...
A Sonoma County Civil Grand Jury report released Sunday May 10 says the agency that has spent 35 years buying up farmland and open space across the county is, by and large, doing the job voters paid it to do. The report’s title — “It’s On Their Website!” — is the jury’s broad answer to citizens w...