Part of my job is sending confidential documents to attorneys. I've been doing this for two years and someone else did it for years before me, so it's not like it's all a big surprise, you know? And, I'd been signing part of the document saying that the attorneys were given these documents.So last week, o

Man, it must hideous working for the National Park Service. I just learned that Steve Prokop, a former chief ranger at Whiskeytown National Recreation Area who moved back east a few years ago to be the chief ranger at Cape...

Here's a sneak preview of Friday's Best Bets for Tehama County: Cruisin' Corning  What: 12th Annual May Madness Show, Shine and Cruise When: 4 to 9 p.m. today, 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday Where: Solano Street, downtown Corning...

Ann Coulter writes: Ronald Reagan was so popular, he not only won a 49-state landslide re-election for himself, but he also won a symbolic third term for his boob of a vice president, George Herbert Walker Bush (who immediately blew...

A 35-year-old Red Bluff man was sentenced today in Shasta County Superior Court to eight years in prison after being convicted in late February of recklessly evading police while leading officers in November on a seven-mile chase and making a U-turn on Interstate 5.

SACRAMENTO – A north state man who claimed to be a decorated Vietnam War veteran was ordered this week to pay a $500 fine and perform 100 hours of community service for violating the federal Stolen Valor Act.

Don't you just love it when all of the sudden you see something so much more clearly than you have have seen it before.What in the world are you talking about?What the subject is that I am talkin

We're hard drinkers and hard-case cigarette smokers. We've got a lot of doctors but also a lot of residents without health insurance. Our childhood poverty rate is high. But strangely, our actual health -- as judge by the number of...

Margaret Riffel, who wrote a letter in today's paper advocating a light-rail system linking Shasta County's cities, sends in a follow-up. Space rationing prevents my publishing it in the paper, but she makes a fine point: Editor, "Just how do...

RED BLUFF — Firefighters made significant progress Wednesday night on an escaped controlled burn that has burned more than 2,000 acres in rugged Tehama County, said Mickie Jakez, public information officer for the state Department of Fprestry and Fire Protection.

Well, the long, long "vacation" (and I mean those quotation marks very sardonically) is about over. I've spent just about all my money and now I need to get a job.It's at times like these when a certain denial-paralysis can set in. At least, they have in the past. And this time... I'm starting to suspect it's

Anybody remember Colby Buzzell? He was a U.S. Army infantryman who wrote a vivid blog while deployed -- a blog that the military ordered him to stop posting to when it became widely known. Anyway, that was back in 2004....

Proposition 83, which passed, I believe, in 2006, widened the zone where registered sex are not allowed to live around schools and the like. It also allow to set their own, more stringent regulations. And they're taking advantage of that...

Red Bluff edged Foothill by four strokes for the third and final team spot for the section finals, joining Chico and Pleasant Valley as qualifiers from the meet at Tuscan Ridge.

Scott Kingsbury's practice on Monday (5/5/2008) was excellent. Not only did I enjoy it and learn a lot - thanks for all the matches and advice! - I really enjoyed seeing Hiroko laugh so much. She was really getting into the eye-hand coordination practice, and her laugh was so infectious that she had most of the rest of t

This is a wonderful story of the fathomless glories of nature....

Jump-starting the north state's wheezing economy will have to take a backseat to life's everyday expenses. That's what Shasta County residents said when asked what they will do with their tax rebates. The checks started showing up in bank accounts last week.

Unfortunately for Redding resident Kay Wilson, the check's in the mail.

Those moths flying into store windows and piling up under lights around east Redding have been identified, a county agricultural official said Wednesday.

A handful of Shasta High School parents are complaining about the way school officials dealt with a colony of bats that flew through the school's band room last fall.

One of the oldest doughnut shops in Redding -- a popular morning stop for retirees and other west-side residents -- has closed its doors.

Open house to launch monthlong campaign Record Searchlight staff An open house today at a new mental health community center in Redding kicks off Shasta County’s recognition of May as Mental Health Month.

INWOOD — A rancher and winemaker with one boot still in the movie business wants to expand his west-of-Shingletown winery to include tastings, horseback tours, weddings and other special events.

April is the cruelest month, the saying goes. Last month lived up to that billing, ravaging walnut and grape crops. Shasta County will likely seek federal disaster relief, said Paul Kjos, deputy agricultural commissioner.

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

RED BLUFF -- The City Council on Tuesday night agreed to give fire engineers and captains a new four-year contract that will include raises averaging 26 percent over 20 months.

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

MINERAL -- Lassen Volcanic National Park staff will begin a 50-acre controlled burn along the park's western edge near here and along Highway 36 today.

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

Two things were learned in the aftermath of the Paradise High School softball team beating host Enterprise 11-1 in six innings on Wednesday.

The Shasta High School girls soccer team upset Chico 2-1 in the semifinals of the Eastern Athletic League Cup on Tuesday.

The spirit of any organization is set from the top, and that makes the reactions of Redding Mayor Mary Stegall and City Manager Kurt Starman to questions about the sexual affairs at City Hall -- lengthy and time-consuming escapades involving the top levels of the organization -- all the more disappointing.

Hillary Clinton, 60, Illinois native and Arkansas lawyer, became, retroactively, a lifelong Yankee fan at age 52 when, shopping for a U.S. Senate seat, she adopted New York state as home sweet home. She may think, or at least would argue, that when she was 12 her Yankees really won the 1960 World Series, by stan

As usual, we camped on upper Hat Creek over opening weekend of trout fishing season along with about 100 other people up and down the creek (mostly families) who enjoy the freedom of not staying in cramped official campsites.

The place to be this weekend is out at the Shasta College softball field. That puts whatever pro football aspirations Catanese has in limbo again. Yet, in talking with him Monday evening, he didn't seem too downcast.

SACRAMENTO -- Driven to history. Sport utility vehicle (SUV) and other four-wheel-drive owners are invited to join the Sacramento-based Capital City Mountain Goat Four Wheel Drive Club on an off-road adventure in California's history-rich Nevada County gold country on May 17.

The Sacramento River Discovery Center will host its Spring Watershed Run/Walk at 8 a.m. Saturday.

Google generates random clickable ads on this site, based on the content of the blog. Usually they pertain to songwriting or homeschooling. But I had to laugh this morning when this ad popped up: "Meet Local Cheating Wives."Geez - that one kind of misses the mark, don't ya think? The site is "Still Married" not

Random thoughts . . .  I completed my first flying lesson (are you out of your ever-loving mind?). We’re talking the inventor of sweaty palms flying. The cockpit was smaller than I imagined. The sky was bluer. The sensations of turning, climbing and even turbulence were not as worrisome