Here are the results of the 57th annual Shasta Damboree Parade held today in Shasta Lake.

Eight people whose raft capsized Saturday afternoon in the frigid Sacramento River near Castella were brought to safety in a daring, riverside rescue using a California Highway Patrol helicopter.

We had a great day with the bishop. Bar B Que, Rosary, Concert, and friendships....Fun Playing FrisbeeGood FoodMore Good Food. Procession around the stadium. More of the procession.

Shasta College adjunct instructor Pete Wever is sweet on Hillary Clinton, giving her $2,000 in the first quarter, according to OpenSecrets.org. She also got $1,000 from attorney Joe Gazzigli, cardiologist Teresa Tioran and physician Mirtha Balcazar. Obama got $1,000 from...

Steve Brewer, our writer friend and yours, gets a hearty round of applause, applause, applause - and what the heck, make that a standing ovation. He completed his latest manuscript, mentioned this weekend over at

With all this talk of recession and depression, here are some images of the Real Thing (something my parents lived through) set to "Big Rock Candy Mountain."...

The salmon fishing season has officially ended before it began. Yesterday, the National Marine Fishery service announced that salmon fishing was now banned along the entire West Coast, the first time it has taken such a step in 160 years.

Here’s what I saw in Igo as I looked off my back deck. Click here to see the slideshow. Photos by Bruce Greenberg Slideshow by Joe Domke

For the last three years in spring, as I’ve stood on our back deck, I’ve seen smoke jumpers practicing in the skies above Igo, just west of Lower Gas Point Rd.  This year I had a camera handy. Have a good weekend. Bruce Photos by Bruce Greenberg. Slideshow by Joe Domke.

For the graduates of Good News Rescue Mission’s New Life Recovery Program, it’s not about the addictions themselves — they’re just symptoms of bigger problems. “I was pretty much angry at the world,” Gary Nunn said.

Getting defensive can be a good thing. Fire officials say clearing brush to create defensible space is key to preventing your home from burning in a wildfire.

COTTONWOOD -- Cassidy Olson celebrated her first cast-free start by carrying a no-hitter into the seventh inning of Friday's 8-0 win over Central Valley High School.

LAKE SHASTA -- After two years of lane closures, reduced speeds and traffic delays, construction crews are planning to wrap up work on the Pit River bridge next week.

• Tour features gardens in bloom • Quilt show planned at Simpson University • Garden clubs hold flower show, sale

Morgan Davis knew she made a potentially costly mistake the moment she completed her throw -- to the wrong base.

Shasta High School announced Friday longtime teacher Chuck Crawford had been awarded the head girls basketball coaching position.

RED BLUFF -- City fire engineers and captains will get raises averaging 26 percent over the next 20 months if the City Council approves a four-year deal Tuesday night.

Perk up those rabbit ears and hear this.

For Shasta College, it's easy being green.

Shasta County supervisory candidate Bruce Waggoner knows it’s the voters in cowboy hats that may be hardest for him to win over.

SACRAMENTO -- Californians are being asked to water their lawns less, plant native shrubs and install more-efficient irrigation systems to stave off water shortages and mandatory rationing amid growing worries about a possible long-term drought.

WASHINGTON -- The Federal Reserve and other regulators initiated steps Friday to end "unfair and deceptive" credit card industry practices assailing consumers who are already struggling to cope in a bad economy.

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

• City's fire chief plans to retire • Substance found in creek ruled not hazardous

Business groups and taxpayer advocates have raised the alarm in the past few years about the stunning generosity and bankrupting cost of public pensions and retirement benefits. By now, cities and counties, facing tight budgets anyway, should have gotten the message.

"I can no more disown him (Jeremiah Wright) than I can disown my white grandmother."

Attention all AT&T cell phone users in the South Bonnyview area and the Highway 273 corridor from Redding to Anderson.

It's time to vote. Not for supervisor or city council, but for the luckiest Kings fan.

Today is Saturday, May 3, the 124th day of 2008. There are 242 days left in the year.

Wow. Sometimes it just takes a graph to spell something out in its unequivocal wrongness.Take a look at this. Click on it.Reproduced here without any permission whatsoever from Adbuste