Everybody's talking about Bill O'Reilly's meltdown on "Inside Edition" about 20 years ago. But at least his profanity-laced rant didn't go out live over the air. (Warming: explicit language in both videos.)...

Redding will pay Dale Construction $793,000 to settle a multi-million-dollar lawsuit stemming from disagreements over Big League Dreams sports park construction, the city announced today.

Just in time for our burst of 100-degree weather, Lassen Volcanic National Park says it expects to have the road through the park fully plowed and open by Friday. I don't know where I'll be this weekend, but I'm pretty...

How do present yourself to the world?Can someone tell by just looking at you what you believe?How important is your faith in your everyday life?

Why do some people find it impossible to tell the truth.Even when given the chance to redeem themselves, they still are incapable of telling the truth.I don't know about you, but the truth has a certain "Ring

I'm not sure whether to blame the Schwarzenegger administration or the Chronicle writer, but this story really seems to twist the meaning of the English beyond recognition, starting with the first sentence. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will unveil a spending proposal...

May 14, 2008ANNUAL COWBOY Chili & Beans Cook Off Rodeo Grounds 5 PM, GRAND PRIZE $250 Chili beans will be judged.. 5 PM Enter your favorite recipe-or be a judge! QUICK DRAW 6 PM (rodeo grounds) Bring your own shootin iron! CELL

It's only a store, I know. But there's something about Trader Joe's that inspires an almost cult-like following. When I was part of the "Buzz on the Street" team with David Benda, nothing we wrote about got the feedback that...

Going to sleep last night, I was kept awake for awhile by the noise of progress over on the Highway 44 bridge -- and I live about eight blocks away on the far side of the Garden Tract. Much has...

A woman was flown to Mercy Medical Center in Redding this afternoon with moderate injuries after she drove her car off Highway 299 and dropped 100 feet down an embankment, landing upside down in Willow Creek.

According to one poll, 29 percent of Democrats think she should....

MONTAGUE — Siskiyou County Sheriff’s deputies arrested a woman here Tuesday evening after she was allegedly found drunk, stumbling down a city street with her 7-year-old child in tow, shouting at passing motorists.

Just five weeks old, Sassy Girl is now eating out of my hand. It didn’t start that way.

Redding temperatures this week are forecast to top 100 -- about 20 degrees above normal -- and north state residents prepped Tuesday for the premature heat wave. Besides the heat, expected gusty winds and low humidity have the north state area on a "red flag" fire danger warning from today through Fri

The hot months are here. Just the thought of turning on the oven when the temperature tops 100 degrees seems unappealing.

• Building still slow around north state • Free foreclosure seminar, caravan of homes offered • New Directions to Hope to showcase new bus

COTTONWOOD -- This time, the Eagles didn't get caught looking ahead.

Sunday was supposed to be the best day of the season for the Knights softball team.

After nearly a decade in the lemonade business, Josh Thomas is looking forward to handing off some of his responsibilities to a successor. But he'll probably wait until his brother turns 4, the same age Thomas was when he opened his award-winning stand.

Like good Boy Scouts, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection is prepared.

Opera singer-turned-developer Kevin Hafenstein is moving forward with plans to redevelop the former Casa Blanca motel property on North Market Street into a 374,000-square-foot retail and residential complex.

Getting out of a bases-loaded first-inning jam gave the Big Valley High School softball team the confidence it needed. It took the air out of Redding Christian's sails in the process.

A north state family grappling with two simultaneous nightmares is hoping for a miracle. Or maybe two.

PALO CEDRO -- Foothill High School catcher Danielle Crisosto crushed a 3-2 pitch some 30-feet past the center-field wall in the third inning of Friday's Northern Section Division II softball semifinal against Pleasant Valley.

Acrooked cop and the criminal he was supposed to guard held up a Redding bank Tuesday morning, fleeing as a horde of gun-toting men in yellow and green shirts followed behind on horseback, firing pistols into the air.

The fourth-seeded Shasta High School baseball team upset No. 1 Pleasant Valley 4-2 Tuesday to advance to Saturday's Northern Section Division I championship game against Foothill.

Recent reports of two toddlers being attacked by coyotes in Los Angeles suburbs serve as a reminder that wild animals can be dangerous. And north state wildlife experts say people should take precautions to protect themselves, children and pets from wild canines.

RED BLUFF -- Tehama County supervisors voted 3-2 Tuesday to reject a contract with a local real estate broker to conduct secret property negotiations on the county's behalf.

Siskiyou County supervisors are on track to approve a 2 percent bump in the tax tourists are charged when they stay the night at a motel.

• Memorial planned for fire captain • Gypsy moth egg mass found in Tehama County • Deadline approaches for Anderson anthem contest

It’s the painful logic of a slowing economy: Just when struggling families need help the most, the community has the fewest resources to spare.

Some people think that the reason the public misunderstands so many issues is that these issues are too "complex" for most voters. But is that really so?

Contrary to what your Saturday editorial would have readers believe, Glenn Hawes is clearly not the better choice for District 3 supervisor. Your editorial assumes that since Bruce Waggoner is working to save our county's dwindling natural resources for future generations, he would be totally against growth. Not

A blindfolded man held his hands over a row of four steak knives. Three were point-down and one stood point-up. A tense crowd in the Chico City Plaza watched. The knives were covered, and, like the blindfolded man, the crowd didn’t know which one was standing on its handle. Or at least, it seemed like th

So I’ve been on this sorbet kick. My freezer’s full of it. Strawberry sorbet. Apricot sorbet. Lemon Sorbet. Blood orange sorbet. Kiwi sorbet. I also have a recipe for chocolate sorbet, thanks to my friend, Alice, wh

Powell’s Books sprawls over a block in the Pearl District of downtown Portland. (Candace #19) – I have seen my future, and it looks strangely like Powell’s Books in Portland. (Excuse me while I sigh contentedly.) It’s been a longtime dream of mine to prowl the cavernous corners of what is possibly

Shasta County Sheriff’s deputies arrested two men this evening following a pursuit that involved the sheriff’s All-Terrain Motorcycle Unit.