The Lakeport City Council meets tomorrow at 5:30 pm and with a reception for council members and city committees and commissions. The council will hear a presentation on the 2022 Business Walks, and will hold a public hearing regarding the 40 unit Martin Street Phase 3 affordable housing project. The Public Works Director will ask … Read more
The Lake County Board of Supervisors meets tomorrow morning at 9 am to consider a contract this week with an architectural firm for the project to create a new sheriff’s office headquarters facility out of the county’s former National Guard armory.
Rather than asking recipients to individually apply for replacement of lost food during last month’s storms, the state will now automatically issue replacements of CalFresh/EBT benefits to residents in 120 different zip codes, including those in living in Lake and Mendocino Counties. The program will replace 50% of regular benefits for households for the month … Read more
The Mendocino County Sheriff’s office is asking for the public’s help in the search for a missing person from Willits. The search for Riley Hsieh has been ongoing since they were reported missing on Monday in the Brooktrails subdivision. Search teams from several agencies and counties have been involved in the search to no avail. … Read more
The person found dead in Covelo after an apparent physical assault has been identified. Mendocino County Sheriff’s Deputies were sent to an address on Tabor Lane on Wednesday to find 20-year-old Nicholas Shehli Whipple of Redwood Valley suffering from a possible gunshot wound. Whipple was given aid and was pronounced dead at the scene. An … Read more
PG&E may be in violation of its license to operate the Potter Valley Project if it moves ahead with plans to leave the spillway gates at Scott’s Dam this spring and in the future. The utility says increased risk of seismic activity motivated the decision to leave the spillway open, however, the Federal Energy Regulatory … Read more
Lake County athletes raked in the honors during the CHSRA District 2 junior high finals last weekend at the Rolling Hills Equestrian Center in Corning, winning six individual event titles as well as three All-Around Cowgirl titles. Nine Lake County athletes qualified for the state finals on May 17-20 at the Tehama County Fairgrounds in … Read more
The director of the Mendocino County cannabis program has resigned, effective immediately. The MendocinoVoice reports County Board of Supervisors Chair Glenn McGourty announced Kristin Nevedal’s resignation at the end of a closed session at the start of the board’s regular meeting on Tuesday. No other information regarding Nevedal’s leaving has been made available. Recently, in … Read more
A Humboldt County man has been sentenced to six years in prison after running into a family’s mini-van on Highway 101 in Mendocino while driving with a blood alcohol level that was over the three times the legal limit. Tyson Randall Young of Fortuna had been previously been convicted of DUI. One of the victims … Read more
At their regular meeting this Tuesday at 6 pm, the Lakeport City Council will hear a report on the Business Walk program, an outreach effort designed to make business owners more familiar with the city and resources available to them. TheLakeCountyNews reports that last fall, 16 teams of staff and volunteers surveyed 115 business in … Read more