News Staff Calpine and the Middletown Art Center will hold their 3rd Annual Earth Day Celebration at the Calpine Geothermal Visitor Center in Middletown on Saturday from 1 to 6 pm. The free event will include educational booths, garden tours, and demonstrations with the Middletown Community Garden team. There will be a vendor market as well as … Read more
A single-vehicle crash on Saturday on Covelo Road east of the 101 left the driver of the vehicle seriously injured. Around 7 am, a white box truck lost control, drove off the roadway, and down an embankment. When first responders arrived, the man was found outside the vehicle, which had traveled 25 feet down the … Read more
The CalFire Mendocino Unit will conduct a prescribed burn of roughly 100 acres at the Mendocino Unit headquarters on Highway 101 in Willits starting on Tuesday. The burn is scheduled to take place throughout the week and should end on Friday. Smoke will be visible in the area during the burn’s hours, which will be … Read more
When the Lake County Board of Supervisors meets tomorrow morning, it will consider an appointment to fill a vacant seat on the Lakeport Fire Protection District Board of Directors. Applicants include Terry Cherney and Joseph Szupellow, who are longtime volunteer firefighters; Gary Deas, a business owner who was also a firefighter from 2006 to 2008 … Read more
A Fort Bragg woman was arrested mid-week for trespassing and assaulting officers with flowerpots. Just after midnight on Wednesday, officers responded to reports of a woman screaming and banging on the front door of an apartment in the 200 block of East Redwood Avenue. When officers arrived, they found 47-year-old Jenny Malagon of Fort Bragg … Read more
Fort Bragg is getting ready to begin construction on its Municipal Broadband Utility Project. In its first phase, the citywide fiber network will have a centralized data hub and 15 distribution areas, allowing crews to work in segments across neighborhoods when installing and repairing the network. Phase two will involve installing service drops to individual … Read more
The City of Ukiah has voted to move forward with a proposal to annex the Willow area south of Ukiah and a portion of Millview just north of the city. The Community Development Department will now submit an application to the Mendocino Local Agency Formation Commission, a government agency that oversees boundary changes in cities, … Read more
At the first of a series of public hearings on the Mendocino County budget, the meeting quickly turned into calls for accountability and structural reform in how the county manages its money. CEO Darcy Antle, who hosted the meeting, was called on the carpet as part of the problem with the county finances. DA David … Read more
Rep. Mike Thompson has announced that the Clear Lake Environmental Research Center was chosen as the 2025 Lake County Climate Crisis Champion. Each year, community members across the fourth district are recognized for their significant efforts to combat the continuing climate crisis and protect the environment at home in their communities.
A 53-year-old Ukiah man’s body was found in the Russian River after a bystander who saw him tying a rope onto the Perkins Street Bridge called law enforcement. Mendocino County Sheriff’s Deputies were dispatched to the 800 block of Vichy Springs Road around 3:30 am on Monday to check on the man, but only found … Read more