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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.
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…
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.
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.
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…
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 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…
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 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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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 Williams Fire burned 19 acres off Mendocino Pass Road east of Covelo and was 50% contained Wednesday morning, according to Cal Fire incident data.
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…
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…
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.
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…
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.
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…
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.
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…
Fire season’s cutest fuel crew is working Caspar right now: 43 sheep the size of golden retrievers, eating the brush around the community center and growing next year’s wool while…
Nobody on this coast plants an echium, commonly called Pride of Madeira, twice. You don’t have to. You put one in, you admire it, and the following spring there are…
The monthly flea control you squeeze between your dog’s shoulder blades is built to spread. It collects in the oil glands of the skin and seeps back into the coat…
A sport boat named Off Hours crossed Noyo Harbor on Thursday, rods racked, past the commercial boats tied along the dock — in the final days of a recreational salmon…
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:…
Everyone knows the Inuit have a hundred words for snow. Everyone is wrong. The anthropologist who started it counted four, and the number has been inflating at dinner parties for…
Three dogs went into the South Fork Eel at Standish-Hickey State Recreation Area, outside Leggett, in the summer of 2002. Two started seizing within five to 10 minutes, and both…
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…
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 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.