A Hopland man with multiple health issues including dementia has been found safe. A call for assistance late Sunday afternoon from a woman who said her husband had not returned from a hike on their property triggered a search party within less than an hour of the report. Mendocino County Sheriff’s deputies, personnel from Hopland … Read more
A woman who died in a single-vehicle crash over the weekend has been identified. The Lake County Sheriff’s office confirms that Lily Ann Richey of Redding died when her vehicle veered off the road, hit a couple of embankments, and rolled several times ending up in a creek bed. It is thought the crash happened … Read more
The total value of Lake County agriculture has dropped to a level not seen in a decade. The 2020 Ag Report says the county’s 2020 gross agricultural value is down 30% from the previous year. Significant downturns in the area of winegrapes, walnuts and timber negatively affected the county’s bottom line. Winegrapes alone account for … Read more
The Clearlake Area Highway Patrol office is investigating a crash over the weekend that killed a Redding woman. Sunday morning, CHP’s Ukiah Communication Center received a call of a vehicle crash on Highway 20, east of Walker Ridge Road. Northshore Fire responded to the scene and confirmed the driver had died of her injuries. CHP … Read more
A Willits man has been arrested on charges of felony evasion over the weekend. Jessie L. Davenport fled a traffic stop and led officers on a brief chase which officers abandoned due to safety issues. His vehicle was found abandoned. The next morning at another traffic stop, he was found to be the passenger in … Read more
The Lake County Sheriff’s Office says it will conduct a full length, 3 minute test of the warning sirens in several communities at 11am on Monday. Sirens in Middletown, Anderson Springs, Cobb, Loch Lomond, and Kelseyville Riviera, will be tested, with messaging sent out through LakeCoAlerts and Nixle notifying residents of the test.
Lakeport has been allocated $1.2 million in COVID State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds from the federal government, and yesterday, the City Council considered a list of projects that could be accomplished with those funds, which must be earmarked by the end of 2024. The four projects on a shortlist of those that fit into … Read more
Ukiah PD during a traffic stop last week discovered a ghost gun. An item dropped from the vehicle was found to be a 9mm semi-automatic pistol with a high capacity magazine, that had no serial numbers, making it untraceable, thereby a “ghost gun”. The 16-year-old passenger was arrested by UPD, and booked into the Mendocino … Read more
The California Transportation Commission last week allocated $589 million for road repair projects across the state. Just over $19 million has been earmarked for improvements at Pudding Creek Bridge on Route 1, pavement and guardrail upgrades on Route 1 from north of Rockport Street to U.S. 101 near Leggett, a multi-purpose paved trail along Route … Read more
At the next meeting of the Clearlake City Council on Thursday, one of the main items on the agenda will be to consider support for the Lake Area Planning Council’s plan to form a regional energy network. According to the Lake County News, City Manager Alan Flora’s report to the council said that Rural RENs … Read more