A fire destroyed a Kamloop Road home off Gilman Road near Shasta Lake Wednesday evening, but there were no reports of any injuries.

Despite their fading clout in Shasta County, you can still gather enough Democrats to fill the community room at the library for a candidate night. Kindly invited, I dropped by Tuesday evening to see the promised line-up of the three...

Some of you of a certain age will remember Chad & Jeremy. For a long time I got them confused with Peter & Gordon.I actually saw C&J, but not in concert: I was in London perhaps twenty years ago and they were starring in Pump Boys and Dinettes, a musical comedy set in the rural South, a

In reply to the comments on this post: The Ferry Building -- and anywhere else you can score Shasta County's finest grass-fed beef -- is paradise for a man with an appetite (and a full wallet), no doubt. But San...

Sen. Dianne Feinstein -- a supporter of Sen. Hillary Clinton for president -- wonders aloud where Hill's going from here....

Junk mail, it seems, is under attack and the junk mail lobby is fighting back. If you're inclined, you can help. From the Direct Marketing Association: Advertising mail is a large and diverse economic engine creating $686 billion of economic...

A drug sweep Wednesday uncovered some 9,000 marijuana plants in the Old Cow Creek drainage of eastern Shasta County, the Sheriff's Department reported.

MINERAL — Lassen Volcanic National Park staff members will begin a 50-acre controlled burn along the park’s western edge near here and along Highway 36 on Thursday and Friday.

In what appears to be a first, Mary "Everything out of the council is negative" Machado of Shasta Voices expressed unqualified praised last night for a Redding City Council decision. What caused this unprecedented political move? The city's proposal to...

When nobody has your back, you gotta move your back.

Isn't it the United States' job to complain that intransigent feuding factions in the Middle East won't sit down and negotiate? Not any more. From the L.A. Times: BAGHDAD -- Iraq's foreign minister said today the government had given up...

RED BLUFF — Firefighters today slowed an escaped controlled burn that jumped to a 1,057-acre wildfire on a ranch in rugged western Tehama County, said Mickie Jakez, public information officer for the Tehama/Glenn Unit of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.

Rodeo! The very word seems packed with explosive action, calm determination and excruciating pain. And live rodeo actions such as the annual Cottonwood Rodeo, held on Mother’s Day weekend, contains every essence of the word and more.

( Candace #18 ) — Does anyone else get desert fever? We find ourselves drawn, again and again, to that place where scrubby, dusty earth reveals its treasures only to those who stop to listen, see and smell. We spent a few days recently in the no-man’s land between Austin and Eureka, Nevada, along America’

Water customers in four Shasta County service areas won't face fines this summer after all. The McConnell Foundation will sell them enough to supply them, despite drought conditions. The county's water deal with McConnell was reached Tuesday afternoon, Public Works Director Pat Minturn said.

There's nothing like biting into a big, juicy burger hot off the grill.

• Flying group to take children up • Community Bancorp's tender offer expires • Inspire Hypnosis plans weight-loss management • People in business

The recipe for Portabella Mushroom Relish is a fun, unique twist to a classic relish recipe. It can be served hot or cold, served on chicken or fish, or eaten plain with your favorite chips.

In an effort to curb illicit pot growing on the steep flanks of one of its mountains, Whiskeytown officials are putting up a roadblock.

Redding officials will use $750,000 they had earmarked for parks to defend the city against a lawsuit filed last year by Dale Construction, the firm that built the Big League Dreams sports park.

INDIANAPOLIS — Barack Obama swept to a convincing victory in the North Carolina primary Tuesday night and declared he was closing in on the Democratic presidential nomination. Hillary Rodham Clinton eked out a win in Indiana as she struggled to halt her rival’s march into history.

Cassidy Olson tossed a no-hitter Tuesday, striking out 15 as the West Valley High School softball team beat Anderson 9-0.

RED BLUFF — An 18-year-old registered sex offender was arrested Saturday on suspicion of felony sexual assault and having sex with a 16-year-old Red Bluff girl. Robert Anthony Jolivette Jr.’s arrest came exactly 11 months after he was arrested on suspicion of breaking into a 15-yearold girl’s home and mole

Big Valley at Fall River 4 p.m.

A consultant who’s helped revitalize streetscapes in Roseville, Grass Valley and Yuba City gave Hilltop Drive owners a reality check on what to expect when work starts on beautifying the aging corridor.

SHASTA LAKE — Funeral services are being held today in Southern California for ex-Shasta Lake mayor and city councilman Andy Ray Coulter.

A Whitmore man who was arrested in March on suspicion of being hired to kill an Indiana man's wife 15 years ago remains locked in the Shasta County jail without bail as he waits for authorities to ship him back to the Midwest for trial.

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

RED BLUFF -- In a move to boost state road and air pollution control revenue, Tehama County supervisors agreed Tuesday to formally request that the U.S. Postal Service establish an additional ZIP code for an area north of town.

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.

A zero-fat potato chip that has no funky additives, is crispy and — here’s the real test — addictive?

A Cottonwood woman has been sentenced to two years in prison after pleading guilty to vehicular manslaughter in connection with the Feb. 24 traffic death of a 57-year-old Cottonwood man.

The U.S. Forest service and the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection are 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.

There were two stories at the Liberty Christian at Bishop Quinn softball game Tuesday.

PALO CEDRO -- The Bishop Quinn High School baseball team needed a win to ensure Tuesday's final home game in school history wasn't the final game period.

The ball sat at the foot of the pitcher's mound Tuesday. A lone baseball sitting on a bump of dirt surrounded by green grass and four bases.

Nobody wants to go to court, but if you must be there, you want your case handled by a judge who's efficient, well-prepared and devoted to justice.

Sometimes unrelated events nevertheless tell a coherent story.

Citizens of Redding should be outraged over City Manager Kurt Starman's changed policy regarding work computers. Now employees are not allowed to use their computers for "excessive personal matters unrelated to city business."

Thanks to Jeff Gore for this Food for Thought forum news nugget he uncovered for us Tuesday about Redding’s only daily newspaper, and my former employer. Jeff shared a trade-journal excerpt that reported

Wow!  I think we are going to have an amazing bounty of local farm fresh fruits and vegetables this season! I went to our local Farmers Market at the Redding Civic Center on Saturday and was just delighted to see some familiar faces selling beautiful produce. I am impressed that there are now two entrepr

Best deal in San Francisco:  In the Tenderloin, on Larkin Street, between Turk and Eddy is a little hole-in-the-wall called Saigon Sandwich.  I’d been meaning to go there for some time now and finally made good on my intentions. I parked one block over, on Hyde Street. Four rather non-descript and som

Turtle Bay Exploration Park  Exhibit runs May 24- mid Sept. Admission:  Adults (13 - 64) $23 Member Adults $16 Seniors (65+) $19 Children (4-12) $19 Member Senior/Child $13 Hours: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. daily  More info: [ww

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