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Due to high fire risk, Mendocino National Forest has implemented fire restrictions until the end of the 2025 fire season. Prohibited activities include building fires, smoking (except in designated areas/vehicles), off-road internal combustion engines, welding, explosives, and fireworks. California Campfire Permit holders may use portable stoves and have campfires in Designated Fire Safe Recreation Sites … Read more

A heat advisory will be in effect from this morning through late Saturday evening for the Northwestern and Southeastern Mendocino county interior, from Covelo to Middletown. Temperatures from 100 to 109 are expected with little relief from nighttime cooling.

Mendocino County Animal Care Services has reopened its cat adoption rooms. The Ukiah shelter is open Tuesday-Friday, 9:30 AM-5 PM, and Saturday, 10 AM-3 PM.

Cal Fire will sell 100 firewood permits for the Jackson Demonstration State Forest starting Monday at 1 p.m. at their Fort Bragg office on N. Main St. Each permit is $20 and allows Mendocino County residents to collect two cords of firewood until October 1, or until supplies last. Chainsaws must have a spark arrester, … Read more

The Lake County Sheriff’s Office is looking for Damion Reynolds, 51, of Clearlake Park, last seen on Wednesday around 7 a.m. at his Crestview Drive home. His clothing and direction of travel are unknown. Reynolds is 5 feet 8 inches tall, 120 pounds, with short brown hair, brown eyes, and possibly a mustache and goatee. … Read more

The Mendocino County Office of Education is seeking applicants to represent Trustee Area 3, which includes Covelo, Brooktrails, Laytonville and Willits. Find out more at mcoe.us

A Clearlake Oaks man, Clifford Merle Cutrell, 54, also known as “Cliff Hanger,” appeared in Lake County Superior Court on Tuesday after being arrested last week. A registered sex offender, Cutrell faces ten felony charges, including kidnapping to commit robbery or rape, assault, four counts of oral copulation by force, rape by force, burglary, threats, … Read more

Expect hot temperatures today. A heat advisory will be in effect starting at 11 am on Friday morning through late Saturday evening for the Northwestern and Southeastern Mendocino county interior, from Covelo to Middletown. Temperatures from 100 to 109 are expected with moderate to isolated major heat risk.

A local pillar of the community, Deanna R.C., a longtime foster parent and volunteer, lost her home and pets in a fire recently. She bravely saved two special-needs adults, including her adopted child, from the smoke-filled house. Her daughter, Danilla Sands, launched a GoFundMe to support her mother. Donations can be made via GoFundMe or … Read more

Authorities recently destroyed 13,600 pounds of processed cannabis and over 46,000 plants during an investigation into illegal cultivation on sensitive habitats in Northern California. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Cannabis Enforcement Program executed 21 search warrants, documenting 213 violations impacting the Eel and Russian Rivers, and finding 19 illegal water diversions. Seven people … Read more