Cal Fire grants have been awarded to Conservation Works, a North Bay environmental conservation non-profit. The $5.9 million in two grants funded through the Wildfire Resilience Program will be used to plan and implement wildfire risk reduction and forest health projects on private property in Lake, Mendocino, Sonoma, and Napa Counties. Applications for this year’s … Read more
State Senator Mike McGuire has launched what he calls a comprehensive audit of all of Mendocino County’s operations and departments. A press release from his office said the issues around administrative operations in the county are unsustainable. He further said the audit would provide some much-needed daylight and help establish a roadmap for long-term stability. … Read more
The Mendocino County Superior Court has approved a three-month extension of the stay in the case involving the City of Fort Bragg, the California Coastal Commission and the Mendocino Railway. TheMendocinoBeacon reports the stay expires in December, giving all parties involved time to continue work on a potential resolution of issues regarding the Old Mill … Read more
The Lake County Board of Supervisors approved sending a letter to Congressman Mike Thompson supporting the Secure Rural Schools program, which expired last June and has not yet been reauthorized. Without funding from that bill, rural schools and other public education programs in Lake County could lose almost five hundred thousand dollars a year.
It was two vehicles and a hydrant crash on Tuesday evening at the Boatyard Shopping Center in Fort Bragg. A gushing column of water from the hydrant struck by one of the cars shot into the air for a time. No injuries were reported and Public Works was notified.
A Covelo man was killed in a one-car crash over the weekend northeast of Willits. Dennis Shepherd, 78, was driving westbound on Highway 162 when his vehicle left the road, drove down an embankment, and hit two trees. When officers arrived on the scene just before two o’clock on Saturday, Shepherd was unresponsive. First responders … Read more
Human remains found last May in Rodman Slough have been positively identified. The body of 62-year-old Ellen Adams of Napa was found on May 27th of last year, after she was last seen on May 24th at the Robinson Rancheria Casino. The Major Crimes Units of the Lake County Sheriff’s office continues to investigate the … Read more
A Northshore man was arrested after taking a city-owned vehicle. Multiple 911 calls of a physical altercation between Daniel Louis Miller, 33, a transient from Nice and a city employee had officers responding. The employee followed Miller after he took a Kubota UTV and trailer used by the Lakeport Parks Department and physically detained him … Read more
Budget cuts have hit the region’s largest hunger relief organization hard. The Redwood Empire Food Bank serves those in need across Lake, Mendocino, Humboldt, Del Norte, and Sonoma counties. The Trump administration’s cost-cutting halted a shipment of 155,000 pounds of food earlier in the month and last week, food bank officials stopped all egg distribution … Read more
A single car crash Saturday afternoon on State Route 162 brought traffic in and out of Covelo to a crawl for a time as CHP worked to clear the wreck near mile marker 5.70 when a vehicle drove off the road. An occupant in the vehicle told emergency dispatch that their spouse had no pulse. … Read more