On Tuesday, a federal judge ruled on the Scott’s Valley Pomo tribes effort to obtain a preliminary injunction against the U.S. Department of Interior over its suspension of the tribe’s gaming eligibility determination for the tribe’s $700 million casino project. Other tribes opposed the Pomo tribe’s eligibility, and the current administration withdrew its approval. The … Read more
CalFire has awarded almost $72 million in grants through its Forest Health Program. 12 local and regional partners received funding. In Lake County, the Clearlake Environmental Research Center received just over $4.6 million dollars. The funding will provide for fuels reduction, prescribed fire, pest management, and reforestation on 800 acres of very high fire-risk forestland. … Read more
A half-acre fire set at the Cloverdale River Park on Tuesday has resulted in the arrest of a Cloverdale man for arson. When fire crews arrived, they observed 51-year-old Joe Ferreira walking away from the scene. Ferreira was detained by a Cloverdale police officer and the fire was contained. Evidence in the area linked Ferreira … Read more
The Lakeport Planning Commission meets this evening at 5:30. It will consider an application by Lake Family Resource Center’s application to temporarily relocate its Early Head Start child development center to Clear Lake Baptist Church, located at 555 N. Forbes St. The commission will also discuss the application by Safeway Inc. to divide a lot … Read more
A woman found unresponsive in the water at Highland Springs Reservoir is thought to have drowned. Lakeport Fire Protection District units were dispatched just before 2 p.m. Sunday after a female had been found face down in the water at the south end of the reservoir. Bystanders were giving her CPR when firefighters arrived. The … Read more
Three suspects are in custody after a shootout at a taqueria in South Ukiah on Saturday. UPD officers were dispatched to Taqueria Jalos at State Street and Talmage Road. Surveillance footage showed the 42-year-old male victim being boxed in by two vehicles, and then a man exiting one of the vehicles and firing shots at … Read more
The Lakeport Economic Development Advisory Committee will meet on Wednesday and hear economic development updates from the Lake County deputy county administrative officer for economic development and the executive director of the Lake County Economic Development Corp.
Lake County Indivisible will gather at noon on Saturday in Lakeport’s Old Courthouse Museum Park to take part in the NO KINGs Nationwide Day of Defiance protest is set to take place during the military parade in Washington D.C. in honor of the 250th anniversary of the Army which has been co-opted into a birthday … Read more
The Clearlake Planning Commission will meet Tuesday evening and hold two public hearings, one to consider a conditional use permit for a tattoo parlor in the 15000 block of Lakeshore Drive. The second is another CUP for tobacco sales in the former Clearlake Electronics Building on Lakeshore Drive.
The Lake County Board of Supervisors this week will consider adoption of a new fire hazard map, review an analysis of options to improve election operations and discuss a list of road projects to be funded by a $3.8 million state grant. That meeting is scheduled for Tuesday morning.