Sheriff's deputies are driving to a remote spot near Shasta Dam tonight to bring several stranded people to safety.

Wally Herger's pretty ticked about the Interior Department even thinking about new national monuments, to judge by a piece in the Colusa Sun-Herald. (Colusa Count includes some of the land where and Interior Department suggested a new national monument might...

Bob Williams, who writes a column but also runs some cattle, e-mails that the steer/truck index is even worse than that PERC article said. Says Williams: The figure for 1970 is exactly right. At the present 44 steers will buy...

A fire burned a travel-trailer in the 21100 block of Big Oak Lane this evening in the Lakehead area.

Martin O'Malley, a longtime writer for Canada's Globe and Mail recalls the joys of baseball's spring training in Floridahere. It includes this graph on our own Rick Bosetti: Rick Bosetti was a peppy young outfielder who toiled for the Jays...

Customers at the Redding Costco were evacuated this afternoon as a precaution after a small amount of refrigerant leaked in the Dana Drive store.

At one of my own children's birthday parties a young guest surreptitiously gave me the high sign. He had an ominous tone in his voice as I bent over to hear the whispered confidence. Through his lisps, I gathered that an imposter has wormed his way into the happy group."Mr. Linkletter. You know that clown who

Sometimes I write a snippet for the local paper about Real Estate. They ask a question and several local agents answer. Usually the question is boring beyond belief that anyone would actually read the answers, but today's question caught my eye. They can edit as they see fit, obviously, and sometimes it helps, and someti

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Redding firefighters extinguished a fire in a travel-trailer early this afternoon on Jane St.

The Shasta County Sheriff's Office is holding its 12th annual Cultural Awareness Festival until 6:30 p.m. today at the Mt. Shasta Mall in Redding.

This afternoon's sunny weather is expected to give way to mostly cloudy skies by tonight, according to the National Weather Service.

By 1 p.m. today, the Guns, Antiques & Collectibles show in Redding had 2,000 people go through the door, organizers said.

Did you have to read William Butler Yeats when you were in school? I can’t recall too many things I had to read in school and can still remember, but this poem continues to be one of my favorites: Photo:…

Haven’t done a Fiction in 58 in a few days…SundayThey wrestled over coffee, a tease of words, gestures.He said man’s greatest achievement was the ability to make fire.She laughed and said it was our ability to love, unconditional.They played like that for hours, until he took her ha

This house has a very unusual history to tell. It's located in downtown French Gulch on Main Street within the French Gulch Historic District. It is separated from E. Franck & Co. Saloon (that great little historic saloon that has...

Don’t get freaked out about a weird name. Hang with us here for a moment. We’ll get to what Pecha Kucha means in just a moment. One reason it sounds interesting to me is it’s being hosted by

Regular FDotD viewers will recall this one from Jan 1. Back then, it was priced at $158K, and sold right away. We got a few calls on it (call back please!). Not sure what happened to that escrow, but here i

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CHICO - The Enterprise High School boys basketball team got the inch it needed and took it a mile.In a nip-and-tuck game through three-and-a-half quarters, Foothill matched the Hornets seemingly point for point until a five-point swing made the game personal and gave Enterprise the separation it needed to come away with a 7

CHICO - Just like last year, the Enterprise High and Paradise High girls basketball teams did battle at Chico State's Acker Gym for the Northern Section Division III title. Just like in the last two times they've done battle, the Hornets and Bobcats went blow for blow in a heavyweight battle that wasn't decided until very l

Trinity High School's Kevin Maelfeyt remains in the running for a possible prep wrestling title.The Wolves senior went 4-0 with three pins and a technical fall in the 140-pound bracket on the first day of the CIF state wrestling championships in Bakersfield on Friday.

Video clips of your Tupperware drawer, camping gear, computer printer and stereo system may not offer much drama (don't expect a call from Sundance Film Festival), but they do make good sense.

Many plants fall into the Solanaceae family. It includes peppers, eggplants, tomatoes, husk tomatoes, tomatillos and potatoes. Look at the leaves of all these and you will see similarities. Most require heat and a long growing season to produce.

Q: House stuck in the disco era? What can a seller do to bring a house up-to-date? Well usually the disco era means shag carpet, avocado or harvest gold appliances and out- dated fixtures in the kitchens and bathrooms. Make them all Dumpster residents. Also, the wood paneling must go.

Retailer opens in former Mervyn's Closeout Club, a temporary discount retail store that will operate over the next four weekends in Redding, has opened inside the former Mervyn's building on Hilltop Drive.

You can lead a child to water, but he'll probably still want the chocolate milk or root beer.

WHO'S IN CHARGE? With city employees losing their jobs, police and fire departments trimming their staff, the closing of the Convention Center now looms, so money can be funneled to Turtle Bay. Three names appear once again: Warren, Salter and Gaines. Who is running this city?

Last Saturday's editorial criticized me for offering "simplistic, knee-jerk opposition to all things stimulus - a position that shifts depending on who's in the White House."

Last week's health care summit was heavy on political theater and anecdotes.

A 49-year-old Redding man is becoming an old hand in winning medical marijuana cases.

The search for an effective weapon against armies of destructive bark beetles chewing through forests across the West has taken an unusual turn through rock music and into, of all places, the voice box of conservative talk-show host Rush Limbaugh.

A weak dollar, a better-than-expected national employment report - even a military coup in Niger mistaken by traders for turmoil in oil-rich Nigeria.

WASHINGTON - At last, the unemployment crisis seems to be easing. That's the good news.

Traffic across downtown Redding was blocked for nearly two hours Friday afternoon after a southbound freight train hit and killed a 57-year-old pedestrian near Yuba Street.

Q: How is your faith organization keeping up with technology and the Information Age?

Q: Hi Monty, I enjoy your columns every week. I have a simple question, then I'd like to run a problem by you that I have with California Highway Patrol officers.

Today is Saturday, March 6, the 65th day of 2010. There are 300 days left in the year.

Dyes will monitor sewage discharges Redding Wastewater Utility crews on Monday afternoon plan to use red and green dye to monitor sewage treatment plant discharges into the Sacramento River.

A Shasta County Superior Court judge refused Friday to accept a plea bargain from a Redding man accused of stalking and harassing his neighbors.

Thinking a 5-year-old boy was missing in the snow Friday morning at Eskimo Hill, emergency crews immediately geared up for a search and rescue.