Redding Rodeo Week  Tonight’s the rodeo! May 9-17 Click here for a calendar of the weeks events.

They've barely counted a vote in North Carolina, and already the major media organizations are declaring Barack Obama the winner. Look, it's not about the candidates. He probably will win, and deserved to win. That's not the issue. The issue...

It must be a corollary to Godwin's Law that the first side in a political debate to call the others "terrorists" is losing the argument. Well, here's the Apartment Owners Association's newsletter arguing for Prop. 98: Ever hear about the...

Humboldt and Mendocino counties have gone so far with their tolerance of medical marijuana that they've all but legalized the drug -- whatever state and federal laws migth say about the matter. But now there's a backlash. Mendocino County will...

Our evening music-making was interrupted by Maggie (our golden retriever) barking frantically outside the bedroom window. I know her various barks, and this was her “I found it, I cornered it, now it’s time for y’all with the opposable thumbs to deal with it.”The “it” was a snake – a beautiful

Novena to the Holy Spirit for the Seven GiftsThe novena in honor of the Holy Spirit is the oldest of all novenas since it was first made at the direction of Our Lord Himself when He sent His apostles back to Jeru

My alma mater's in the news. From the AP: An undercover drug probe focused on San Diego State University and some of its fraternities has led to arrests of 96 people, including 75 students, authorities said Tuesday. [ ... ]...

I reported last night that as of Monday afternoon, Andy Green  no longer manages the Redding Convention Center and Visitors Bureau. You first read about Green’s absence from his high-level city management position when

The U.S. Forest service, along with CalFire, is conducting a joint air attack management course at the Redding Air Attack Base at Redding Municipal Airport and the Northern California Training Center on Airport Road.

Bravo to Dottie Smith, whose new local history-oriented blog has quickly become one of the most popular blogs on redding.com, according to monthly stats we bloggers get. I always learn something from Dottie's entries. She knows her stuff. I consider...

Irving Robbins, the co-founder of Baskin-Robbins, has died.Now, I know that maybe Baskin-Robbins maybe isn't the most fabulous ice cream on earth, but when it opened shop, it was quite the novelty. Thirty-one flavors, all for you to choose from! That was amazing. Who knew there could be that many

The Boston Globe: "The SUV craze was a bubble and now it is bursting," said George Hoffer, an economics professor at Virginia Commonwealth University whose research focuses on the automotive industry. "It's an irrational vehicle. It'll never come back." The...

Timber mogul Archie "Red" Emmerson and his Sierra Pacific Industries may be making a play for the bankrupt Pacific Lumber Co. mill in Scotia. An article that ran last week in the Santa Rosa Press-Democrat repor

MOUNT SHASTA — An 18-year-old Dunsmuir woman was arrested Monday on suspicion of possession of a controlled substance, transportation and sales of a controlled substance, as well as being under the influence of a controlled substance.

In the days before color TV belatedly came to my household (the Sixties), I remember joining my mom and dad and sister on the street in front of Fleharty's appliance store in downtown Redding to watch "The Flintstones" on a...

DORRIS — A 26-year-old Dorris man was arrested Monday on suspicion of possession of marijuana for sale and possession of marijuana while driving.

I've heard a lot of reasons -- good ones, even -- to support locally owned businesses over corporate chains: unique products, better service, building community. But the Chronicle reports a new one in a dispatch on a Planning Commission dispute:...

RED BLUFF — An 18-year-old Red Bluff man was arrested early Saturday on suspicion of felony sexual assault and having sex with a minor, according to the Red Bluff Police Department.

RED BLUFF — Police here arrested 26-year-old Joseph Kigar Sunday on suspicion of willful neglect of a child after his 3-year-old son was found by police wandering on Jackson Street in just a blue shirt and a soiled, leaking diaper.

I laugh out loud each morning when I hear, from one of the T.V. talking heads, that the cost of a gallon of gas has ratcheted up another nickel to $3.61 per gallon, which is read under the cacophony of nature-Nazis demanding more fuel mileage from our new vehicles, more car pooling, more mass transit, more, more, more. Mea

I thoroughly enjoyed Scott’s practice tonight. Wow, we learned a lot from him. He is a dojo leader of Westside Shotokan, another SKA dojo in town. He was one of my teachers when I started training at SKA Redding Dojo (then leader: Godan Ken Osborne) in November, 1985.

I think my most favorite prayer is the Nicean Creed.This is what I believe, It is who I am, It is my entire faith!!!!We believe in one God, the Father, the Almighty, make of heaven and earth, of all that is seen and unseen. We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only Son of God

Pentecost Sunday is one of the most ancient feasts of the Church, celebrated early enough to be mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles (20:16) and St. Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians (16:8). It is the 50th day

The Wings of Summer: Birds! and Butterflies! exhibits have opened at Turtle Bay Exploration Park in Redding. The seasonal displays at the Paul Bunyan Forest Camp feature colorful, exotic birds in a walk-in aviary and hundreds of live butterflies in an enclosed garden.

RED BLUFF -- Taming the back nine is no easy task at Wilcox Oaks Golf Course.

Dominique Aguilar is striving to live up to the meaning of her last name.

• Seminar offered on home-buying • Federal contracting is topic of business class • FAA safety seminar planned at airpark

They know what they are not -- gypsy moths or Pacific tent caterpillars -- but local agriculture and forestry experts haven't yet identified the brown moths swarming east Redding.

In fifth grade, when I was 11 years old, I got flung headlong off a runaway merry-go-round.

A Redding artist is looking for a few good men -- and women -- who served during World War II.

Former Redding Mayor George C. Fleharty, who died last month at his San Francisco home, wasn't one to take life easy.

They've investigated an unscrupulous former Redding mayor, spotlighted a fire district that hadn't held elections in decades and have cleared the names of government officials, too.

The Dunsmuir Rotary is presenting Reach the Peak 2008 — a fundraising effort dedicated to the global eradication of polio.

Americans may be getting another helping of food inflation, and it seems likely to come from higher prices for chicken and pork. Overall food inflation could double this year, lifted by the rising costs of fuel, corn and soybeans, some analysts predict. Food inflation hit 4 percent last year, up from 2.4 percent

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- Myanmar's official media said today that 10,000 people were killed by a powerful cyclone in just one town, confirming fears of a spiraling death toll from the storm's 12-foot tidal surges and high winds that swept away bamboo homes in low-lying coastal regions.

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A broad coalition of health care groups sued the state of California on Monday, hoping to stop 10 percent cuts to Medi-Cal and Denti-Cal reimbursements from taking effect July 1. The lawsuit, which seeks class-action status, was filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court on behalf of Califor

Two Oakland residents were injured early Saturday morning on Interstate 5 in Red Bluff after their truck was rear-ended by a Tehama County Sheriff's patrol car, according to the California Highway Patrol.

• Planning group wants input from public • Wreck blamed on cell phone • CTA bus tour stops in Anderson

No one involved with California government thinks the state budget process is ideal.

The north state is the Saudi Arabia of water, but even our pipes can cough and sputter in a dry year -- and 2008 is turning out parched.

I am concerned that Redding Mayor Mary Stegall thought that the City Hall "sex scandal" was created by the Record Searchlight.

The Red Bluff High School softball team took a 3-2 lead in the top of the eighth inning, but couldn't hold on, losing 4-3 to Paradise on Monday in extra innings.

A blood drive, car wash and bake sale is planned from 3 to 7 p.m. May 19 as a fundraiser for the Madison Wallers Leukemia Fund at Anderson Walk-in Medical Clinic, 2760 North Balls Ferry Road in Anderson.

Redding certified farmers market. 7:30 a.m.- noon Every Saturday Redding Civic Center West Parking Lot City Hall, 777 Cypress, Redding

Here’s a comforting message for all of you who have children under the age of 6: It gets easier. As children get older, parents move from the trenches to the rear guard, in charge of logistics rather than patrolling the sleepless front lines of the home front. So it’s like a pro

Andy Green retired from his management job with the Redding Convention Center on Friday, said his boss, Gerry Kersten, the city’s support services director. However, Kersten said that Green signed the paperwork Monday afternoon that finalized the Convention Center manager’s decision to retire and leave