News Staff The Bureau of Land Management, Ukiah Field Office, will conduct prescribed burns in the Point Arena – Stornetta Unit of the California Coastal National Monument in Mendocino County, starting as early as today and may continue throughout the month.
A jury trial has been set for a man suspected of robbing the Soda Bay Market this past May. Bryan Albert Bouchard entered a not-guilty plea to charges of robbery, burglary, grand theft, and carrying a firearm in a public place while masked. Bouchard is out on bail and is wearing an electric monitoring device. … Read more
The governor has signed a bill that will revise and strengthen the state’s Feather Alert, the notification system designed to notify the public when an Indigenous person goes missing. AB2348 would streamline the process of requesting and activating the alert, providing tribal governments with a direct pathway to communicate with the agencies involved, which will … Read more
A heat advisory goes into effect Tuesday, tomorrow morning for the Northwestern, Northeastern, and Southeastern Mendocino Interior as well as most of Northern Lake-Southern Lake and will continue through late Wednesday. Temperatures of 97 t0 110 are expected.
A Ukiah man was convicted midweek of armed carjacking in Mendocino County Superior Court. Justin Michael Hietala, 41, was convicted of three counts of attempted carjacking with a weapon. After the jury was excused, a bench trial was scheduled to present additional evidence to support the DA’s allegations that Hietala’s crimes should be designated aggravated. … Read more
The Fort Bragg Police Department has been awarded 2.5 million dollars to be used over the next three and a half years to expand its Care Response Unit outside of the city on the coast. The competitive grant will be split between expanding the Mendocino Coast Hospitality Center to expand mental health services outside of … Read more
CalFire has announced that all campgrounds and roads in Jackson Demonstration State Forest will close for the season on Tuesday, with few exceptions. Hikers can still utilize the roads, but seasonal wet weather necessitates the closure. For a list of remaining open roads and more information go to fire.ca.gov.
At a special meeting of the Lakeport City Council on Thursday, the board voted 3-1 to approve a request to execute a 2018 Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery grant extension request letter to the California Department of Housing and Community Development on behalf of the Parkside apartments project. The council also approved moving almost … Read more
A local graffiti tagger has been arrested again in Ukiah. UPD was called to Schats Bakery on West Perkins Street on a report of graffiti. Surveillance video showed that Aldar Fragoso was the culprit. Fragoso has been in custody in the Mendocino County Jail for another tagging incident and also is facing pending parole for … Read more
Willits residents may see a drop in water pressure and water discoloration for a short time both today, Thursday and Friday as the Willits Water Department flushes water mains at the base of Pine Mountain to clear sediment from the water system. Letting the water run for a minute in the case of discolored water … Read more