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Gov. Gavin Newsom this week declared a state of emergency in Mendocino County over February’s storm damage and ordered Caltrans to seek federal money to fix highways here.
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.
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.
Mendocino County supervisors met inside Fort Bragg’s Veterans Memorial Building on Tuesday and voted 5-0 to let the city run the hall.
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
Fort Bragg is making a run at two big pots of state money — one to finish a stadium the community started building more than three decades ago, the other…
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…
The Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office closed its Fort Bragg front counter to walk-in visitors on Wednesday afternoon. The reason was staffing, and the math behind it is simple. Two people…
Opponents of logging in Jackson Demonstration State Forest will rally at Fort Bragg Town Hall on Saturday, calling on Cal Fire to halt a recently approved timber harvest plan and…
Just two years after it was named the best small library in America, the Round Valley library is asking its neighbors for help keeping the lights on.
Turn on the tap in Elk, Laytonville or Round Valley, and the water comes from a government. Not the county and not a city — there isn’t one. It comes…
The public gets nearly two more months to weigh in on the plan to pull two dams out of the Eel River. Federal regulators moved the deadline Friday, the day…
On Tuesday, the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors approved a $1,164,000 contract to Visit Mendocino County, the nonprofit that markets the county to travelers. That money comes from a 1%…
The Point Arena City Council approved permits Tuesday for a 10-site campground on city-owned land at Arena Cove, then said it isn’t ready to build it.
The Mendocino County Board of Supervisors approved a three-year contract with the county’s largest employee union Tuesday, after months of workers telling the board it had broken the services the…
Mendocino County spent the spring building a case that its roads are failing faster than it can fix them. On Tuesday three supervisors voted to put the matter to voters…
For two weeks a national audience has been told that Gavin Newsom gave away a stretch of the Mendocino coast south of Westport. Fox News framed it as a “Newsom-backed”…
On Friday, July 10, the ground under Round Valley wouldn’t stop moving. A run of quakes rolled through north of Covelo over a few-hour span — at least six of…
The federal money that paid Mendocino County farmers to grow food for their hungry neighbors ran out at the end of May.
Service Employees International Union Local 1021 says it has a tentative three-year deal: 3% raises for every job classification, up to 12% for the lowest-paid, free health care for workers…
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission took its public comment period on the Potter Valley Project in Ukiah over two days in June. Comments were made in private, behind a closed…
The Mendocino County Resource Conservation District posted a request for proposals Friday for a $50,000 study of workforce needs across three of the county’s tribes — and anyone who wants…
Book a $200 night in Mendocino County outside city limits and two extra lines show up on the bill. One is a $20 room tax. The other is a $2…
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.
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.
Days before their contract runs out, Mendocino County's union workers got a 1% raise offer. Two years ago, the supervisors gave themselves 16%.
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…
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…
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,…
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…
Mendocino County supervisors set aside two days to work through next year’s budget. They finished in one.
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…
Huffman charges that Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins is “politically freelancing” on a Southern California bid for the Eel River dams.