Firefighters investigating the presence of a white, cloudy substance in Calaboose Creek this afternoon have determined that it’s a nonhazardous construction material, a spokesman said.

I feel so very lucky and blessed to say that we are able to return to San Lucas Toliman, Guatemala this year. I didn't think that we were going to be able to visit San Lucas due to financial restrictions, but God

RED BLUFF – City fire engineers and captains will get raises amounting to 24.2 percent over the life of a four-year contract if the City Council approves the deal Tuesday night.

I need to paint my house. It was last painted over ten years ago, by me, and after I finished that I decided that was all the house painting I ever intended to do. It is one of those jobs that I will gladly pay someone to do.The east side on the house looks fine, though faded. I never did paint the south side so

Confession: A Catholic boy and a Jewish boy were talking and the Catholic boy said, "My priest knows more than your rabbi." The Jewish boy said, "Of course he does, you tell him everything." Baptis

Why? "Because people drink more when they're depressed." I'm not sure they'll be drinking $30-plus a bottle organic vodka distilled in Ashland, but hey, it's a business. Organic booze -- I'm not sure vodka's a health food even if it's...

The Spartans had 43.5 points to grab the fourth and final team spot for the Division I championships Tuscan Ridge in Chico on Wednesday.

Dalance Boschee of Cottonwood, a 1991 graduate of La Pine High School in Oregon, has been assigned to the Oakland area office. He is a senior in the U.S. Air Force Reserve. Boschee was a cable television installer before joining the CHP.

Even the mayor. Chris Solberg, who runs Redding Loaves & Fishes, sends a link to the stunning story that the mayor of Ashland, Ore., is ... well, not sleeping on the streets, but couch-surfing at friends' houses because he can't...

Despite grades that would make school kids lose their video games, air officials in Shasta and Tehama counties say the north state's air isn't as bad as it looks on a report card.

Police arrested a 48-year old Redding man this morning on suspicion of assaulting and robbing a 30-year old Redding man who was found unconscious Thursday afternoon at Market and Fell streets.

...to get tickets to the Shasta High production of Les Miserables. It's amazing the youthful talent in our midst. An ambitious production professionally staged. My hands hurt from the extended standing ovation the cast and orchestra received at the end...

Looking at the rain gauge and Shasta Lake makes you wonder. From the Chron: Two parched years - punctuated by the driest spring in at least 150 years - could force districts across California to ration water this summer as...

(Candace #17) — As Wormtongue (above, left) says to King Théoden in one of the “Lord of the Rings” movies: “A just question, my liege.” I must get asked this question at least three times a week by dear people who are genuinely interested in our lives and probably still trying to get their mi

Despite the bad grade, Bell said Shasta County still has better air than other counties in the Central Valley. Kern County had 230 days over ozone standards, Tulare County had 200 and Fresno County had 100. All three counties got an "F" in the report. Of the 51 California counties in the report, 23

Chico High School claimed the league boys golf title on Thursday, but the happiest coach there was looking after another red-clad team.

When you're the head of a city department, getting envelopes addressed to you is nothing too terribly special.

• Caruso's restaurant open for business • Special Olympics Moves into Y • Edward Jones advisor to host five-week class

RED BLUFF -- Everybody knows what the key to winning the Les Schwab Tires Red Bluff Pro-Am.

When a high school student begins applying to college, rejection is inherent.

The California Interscholastic Federation announced last week its football bowl games will return to Carson's Home Depot Center for the next two years.

The Exchange Club of Redding honored Shasta County's top firefighters during its fourth annual Firefighter of the Year ceremony Thursday at Win-River Casino.

Bethel Church member Tom Williams, left, listens to

This is the fourth in a series of profiles of Shasta County supervisory candidates.

Police are searching for a man who was wearing a clown mask when he robbed two people at gunpoint inside their Hilltop Drive motel room.

Mark Thomas, left, Jonathan Shatto and Matthew Moorehead stand by a sign late Thursday afternoon to drum up support for a gasoline strike today. "Our goal is to boycott the major gas companies," Thomas said. The trio was protesting the high cost of gas near the corner of Cypress Avenue and Hilltop Drive in Reddi

Fiber artists tend to find each other — to share techniques, hints, patterns and tips for handling the all-natural products, said Irene Fuller, organizer for this weekend’s sixth annual Fiber on the Foot event at the Tehama District Fair grounds in Red Bluff.

SACRAMENTO — California’s vast network of reservoirs — which destroyed more than 5,000 miles of salmon habitat when their dams were erected decades ago — could turn out to be a savior for a species on the brink of collapse, according to a new study.

• Fair entry forms due next Friday • Burn restrictions imposed around the north state • Saturday benefit to aid Cottonwood liver patient

WASHINGTON -- Senior military officers could be talking about their emotional struggles on YouTube and MySpace this year, in a Pentagon campaign to urge troops into counseling for wartime mental problems.

SACRAMENTO -- California lawmakers on Thursday approved legislation requiring airlines to provide passengers with food, water, lights, air and working toilets when they're stuck on airport tarmacs for long periods of time.

Along-simmering feud among California Republicans boiled over in the past week.

Everyone's complaining about the cost of filling up their gas tanks. The solution?

By now the Tale of Lilly Ledbetter is beginning to sound like the Perils of Pauline or the Pre-Feminist Follies. At 70 years old, she’s the star of a long-running drama about how hard we have to run to keep from slipping backward.

Bottle caps are insult to Weed -- This is a slap in the face to our founder Abner Weed.

Talent on display

City of Redding firefighter Jesse Pyorre sprays a fire-suppressing foam on a front-end loader that caught fire Thursday. The fire was reported just after 5 p.m. at the city's solid waste transfer station and recycling facility off Abernathy Lane. Flames ruptured the loader's fuel and oil lines, but the petroleum

OROVILLE -- A Magalia man has been sentenced to 48 years in prison for leading a child sex abuse ring for six years.

 This time last year Bruce and I were packing for our month-long trip to Europe: two weeks in Italy to celebrate our 10th anniversary; two weeks in the Czech Republic for Joe and Marie’s wedding. It was a trip of a lifetime. While there, I chronicled my food and travel stories for my former newspaper emp

 BELFAST — If you are at the end of your rope about how screwed up the world is, if you think that it has become hopeless and that there will never be peace in this world, you need to go to Northern Ireland.       What has happened is nothing short of a miracle, but it was a miracle brought on by work a