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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 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…
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…
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.
Those attending the FERC scoping in Ukiah ended up speaking to a court reporter in private.
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…
Days before their contract runs out, Mendocino County's union workers got a 1% raise offer. Two years ago, the supervisors gave themselves 16%.
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 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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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 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.
Mulch isn’t optional — and drip on a timer is the gold standard.
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…
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…