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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…
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…
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…
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 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.
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 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…
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…
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.
Deputies were sent to a house on the 1000 block of Redwood Drive in Redwood Valley late on Aug. 6 for a man threatening to harm himself. They left with…
Mendocino County Sheriff Matt Kendall and the president of the Mendocino Cannabis Alliance aren’t often on the same side of the county’s cannabis arguments. But on one point they agree:…
Sheriff’s deputies serving a search warrant at an illegal cannabis grow this week near Covelo arrested one armed man and found nearly 10,000 marijuana plants and the banned pesticide carbofuran,…
The woman found shot to death last week inside a pickup truck at an illegal marijuana grow outside Covelo has been identified as Josepha Littlewolf Basurto, 31. A preliminary autopsy…
The Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office publishes a log of every call it answers. It goes up as a PDF each morning, one line per call, and almost nobody reads it.…
A 31-year-old Covelo woman was fatally shot at a large illegal marijuana cultivation site outside Covelo, and investigators believe multiple people were involved in her killing, the Mendocino County Sheriff’s…
The Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a homicide off Rifle Range Road in Covelo, where a woman’s death was reported just before 9 p.m. Thursday.
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 —…
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…
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…
A slough borders the western fence line where state Highway 37 meets Interstate Highway 80 in Vallejo, with egrets working the marsh. On the dry side, 160 acres contain grass…
Robledo Family Winery, founded by a man whose father was a Bracero, joins the worst quarter California wine has seen in years.
A 1st District ruling sets statewide precedent on California’s price-gouging law and clears the way for hundreds of Santa Rosa residents to keep their post-emergency rents intact. A California appellate court has barred Santa Rosa mobilehome park owners from raising rents to make up for annual increases they couldn’t impose during the multi-year wildfire state…
If you’ve ever wondered what happens when a young person in Sonoma County gets court-ordered into the juvenile justice system, here’s one answer: Sometimes, they don’t go to Juvenile Hall.
A newly released oversight report on the 2022 killing of David Peláez Chavez by a Sonoma County sheriff’s deputy faults the agency’s tactics and transparency, highlighting missed chances to use…
Are pre-dawn roosters and vineyard booms crimes — or just the price of country living?
During the early 1870s in Sonoma County, before vineyards dominated the landscape, a group of local farm boys pursued criminal fortune. Unlike legendary gunslingers, these men were inexperienced—reckless and destined…