A prescribed burn is scheduled to take place sometime between today and Friday in 90 acres of undergrowth west of Lake Pillsbury and north of the Eel River. Weather permitting, crews will start the burn and remain on-site through the weekend and into the beginning of the week as a safety precaution. Forest officials remind … Read more
Another candidate for the Middletown Unified School District seat up for special election has declared. Bryan Pullman is a contractor and was one of ten people interviewed in December when the school board filled seats vacated by Thad Owens and LaTrease Walker. Pullman joins school volunteer Charise Reynolds on the ballot.
Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday took steps to drive water conservation at the local level, calling on local water suppliers to move to level two of their water shortage contingency plans, which require locally-appropriate actions that will conserve water across all sectors, and directing the State Water Resources Control Board to consider a ban on … Read more
An unidentified Ukiah woman died on Monday evening in a three-vehicle crash on Highway 20 near Lake Mendocino in Mendocino County. It is believed standing water in the roadway may have been a factor. The CHP says the crash remains under investigation.
A man who stabbed another in the parking lot of the Wells Fargo in Ukiah has been taken into custody by Mendocino County Sheriff’s officers and booked on murder charges. A 911 call reported a man was in the parking lot waving a knife around. When officers arrived, they found Leslie Adelman walking away from … Read more
Mendocino County’s Skunk Train will be hosting a “Train for Ukraine” event this Saturday. The Skunk Train will run two trains to support the Ukrainian cause. One hundred percent of the proceeds from these trips will go to the International Committee of the Red Cross. Trains will depart from both Fort Bragg and Willits, and … Read more
The Mendocino County Public Health Department reported on Friday that a positive case of the Omicron subvariant BA2 has been confirmed by the county. Cases of the BA2 subvariant have been detected around the state since the beginning of the year. The county has just been notified that the first local case of BA2 was … Read more
There has been another mountain lion sighting, this time in Fort Bragg. A resident reports home security camera footage shows the animal on their front porch. The resident says she was aware of cougar sightings in the county, with one carrying off a pet cat in Caspar last month, but that one could be on … Read more
Work has begun on an extension of the City View Trail in Ukiah. Recently, the Ukiah Trail Group and other volunteers began mapping the new loop, and when that was done, entrances to the new trail were marked with signs announcing a public hearing before the city council. The council approved the project, which includes … Read more
A fire at the Oak Glenn Apartments in Willits has left two units destroyed and its occupants homeless. The fire was the result of a stove-top accident where the tenant had been deep frying and the oil flared. The tenant didn’t have an extinguisher and tried to smother the flames with a blanket. Another tenant … Read more