Public Health officials in Mendocino County are urging people to get vaccinated for COVID-19 and strongly recommend wearing masks indoors. Public Health says the current surge is due to the Delta variant. In recent weeks, the rate of new COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations in Mendocino County has tripled. There are currently 9 people hospitalized in … Read more
The Lakeport Police Department is welcoming its newest officer, Kaitlin Morfin. This marks the first time in LPD’s 133-year history that they’ve had three female officers working for the community at the same time.
A business in Ukiah was destroyed by a fire early Friday morning. UVFA crews responding to the fire arrived to find the roof of the dry-cleaning business on South State Street on fire. With assistance from nearby fire departments, they were able to prevent the fire from spreading to other businesses in the complex, including … Read more
Pacific Gas and Electric Company announced yesterday that it will extend the moratorium on utility service disconnections through September 30th. The moratorium was put in place in March 2020 by the California Public Utilities Commission. PG&E also announced that programs that had been halted due to the pandemic will also resume, including the Family Electric … Read more
Lakeport Police are looking for the driver and vehicle in a hit and run that left a person injured. It happend about 3:20 yesterday afternoon. The vehicle is a 2008 white Pontiac G6 with possible front end damage. Contact LPD with information.
Congressman Mike Thompson announced this week that $19 million he requested for Tribal Health Programs in California to purchase power generators was included in the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment and Related Agencies’ Fiscal Year 2022 spending legislation. Tribal Health Programs in the Fifth Congressional District that stand to benefit if this funding is … Read more
Sundays in the Park with free music at Todd Grove Park in Ukiah returns this weekend. Instead of six concerts, there will be four this summer. Hot Buttered Rum, will bring their Progressive Bluegrass Folk sound on Sunday starting at 6PM.
Pacific Gas and Electric officials announced a major initiative to bury power lines in areas of California where the wildfire risk is the highest. The initiative would involve burying 10,000 miles of power lines over a ten-year period. It would represent the largest such effort in the U.S. to harden the system and mitigate wildfire … Read more
The Clearlake Police Department served a search warrant this week at a large marijuana grow in the 2800 block of Pamela Lane. It was in response to complaints and concerns about water use. Officers also discovered the operation is using stolen power and found unprotected power lines and outlets with large amounts of brush around … Read more
A woman from Clearlake was arrested for setting fires in the Lower Lake area. Last Sunday night, deputies responded to the 9000 block of Lake Street in Lower Lake after getting a report of a woman setting fires in the area. The fires were approximately 50 feet from each other and approximately 12 square feet … Read more