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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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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:…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
Above the fog line, the air is clear, and the dirt is clean. Growing the wine was never the hard part.
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 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 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 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.…
On June 29, two things happened to Hopland.
Mendocino County search teams spent Saturday combing the Eel River canyon east of Covelo for signs of a hunter who went missing during a flood more than four years ago,…
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…
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake struck about 7 miles north of Covelo at 6:14 p.m. Friday, the third and largest quake to hit the same area of northern Mendocino County since…
Drill a well in Redwood Valley, and a gallon a minute can pass for good news. Twenty gallons a minute, by local standards, is a gusher. Drill one a few…
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…
Drop a diver into Caspar Cove and the bottom looks like a parking lot — bare rock, purple sea urchins packed wall to wall, not a blade of kelp standing.…
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.
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.
Highway 101 is the main drag through Hopland, and starting the night of Sunday, July 12, it narrows to one lane after dark.
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…
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…
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 bug most likely to give you Lyme is too small to feel.
Forward progress stopped, evacuation orders lifted at 1:32 p.m.