McARTHUR — Even without their starting quarterback, the Bulldogs were too much for the Warriors. Ryan Stephenson ran for four touchdowns — all 47 yards or longer — and the Fall River High School football team delivered a 66-25 win over fourth-seeded Mercy on Friday. Nick Lakey and Nathan Gilligan also ran

Firefighters are extinguishing an illegal agricultural burn off Black Ranch Road across from Highway 299 near Burney this afternoon.

A controversial wind power project will be built on a ridge overlooking Burney in eastern Shasta County.

On a day of big decisions around the country - election day - the Shasta County Board of Supervisors will be weighing approval of a 6 1/2-mile long string of wind turbines atop mountains overlooking Burney. While the Shasta County Planning Commission approved the 100-megawatt Hatchet Ridge Wind Pr

The flood of incoming emails, news tips and press releases never ceases. Some days it’s like we’re in the batting cage and somebody cranked the news-fastball-pitch machine speed up to “Lucy and Ethel.” We find places for most of the incoming, such as in main articles or in the press-release

Burney resident Michelle Paradiso, 20, caught her first limit of rainbows on Hat Creek in September using a fly rod while drifting eggs

In two meetings this season, the Fall River High School volleyball team is 2-0 over Intermountain rival Burney - the Raiders' only two losses of the year.

The Burney High School volleyball team just escaped a case of the homecoming week blues.

• County names its teachers of the year • Burney Elementary wins walking grant • State grant helps Lewiston school • Student musicians hold haunted house

We asked the eight Redding City Council candidates to answer one question a week for nine weeks until the Nov. 4 election. Answers appear word-for-word in the order in which they were received. QUESTION 6 Are there functions of city government you’d like to see privatized? Whi

A controversial wind-power project set for a ridge overlooking Burney will go before the county's top officials after opponents Tuesday filed a pair of appeals.

BURNEY — A fire that broke out here late this afternoon near a large tin structure at the Sierra Pacific Industries mill here was contained about an hour later.

Opponents of a 100-megawatt, wind-power project planned on a ridge near Burney filed an appeal today with Shasta County.

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BURNEY - Shasta County officials Thursday night unanimously approved plans for a 6 1/2-mile-long string of wind turbines along a ridge overlooking Burney.

BURNEY — The Shasta County Planning Commission unanimously approved plans for a string of wind turbines atop Hatchet Ridge near here at its meeting tonight.

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Hatchet Ridge Wind, a $500 million electrical project in eastern Shasta County, has been in the works for a few years, and it has been exhaustively analyzed. We know how it will affect the habitat of the Butte County morning glory. We know what it will do to PG&E's power grid.

BURNEY — Firefighters responded this morning to a stump that was smoldering near the Pit 5 powerhouse on the Pit River near Burney.

A controversial wind power project will take center stage Thursday in Burney, as the Shasta County Planning Commission weighs its approval.

By By Kimberly Ross Record Searchlight Don't get your name on the tax collector's "naughty" list - a small-print, two-page newspaper spread naming everyone who hasn't paid their property taxes. But if you've already made the list, published three times this month, Shasta County Tax Collecto

By By Dylan Darling Record Searchlight A flurry of more than 200 lightning strikes over four Northern California counties Sunday resulted in scant smoke spotted Monday, apparently because a splash of rain accompanied the storm. The same storm that lit up the Sunday night sky around Whitmore also

I haven't blogged in a few days because I've been too busy stuffing the mattress with all the remaining cash and gold bouillon I can get my hands on.... ;-)But this headline in the Wretched Flashlig

The Record Searchlight is offering a $250 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or people who are breaking into newspaper racks in the Burney and Round Mountain areas.

Burney High School volleyball notched its second tournament championship in as many weeks Saturday when it added the Lassen tournament to its Block F title from last week's trip to Fall River.

Based on data from the Shasta MLSthere are only 1887 homes for sale in the Greater Redding area. This includes some listings in Tehama County and the Intermountain communities of Burney, Fall River and Bieber.This compares to a low of 15

The man killed in a motorcycle crash Sunday evening in Burney was identified tonight as William Jordan, 59, of Burney.

A Burney man died following a motorcycle accident late Sunday evening south of Clark Creek Road near Black Ranch Road south of Lake Britton.

By Jessica Skropanic Becoming an Outdoors Woman, California and Wilderness Unlimited will host a fly fishing workshop Sept.19 to 21 on Wilderness Unlimited's Bidwell Ranch property in the Hat Creek Valley near Burney. There will be sessio

SACRAMENTO — Federal officials are claiming that a Burney woman whose son died last year in a U.S. Marine Corps training exercise was cheated out of nearly $200,000 in death benefits by her half-sister and her boyfriend.

I have lived in Shasta County for nearly 30 years with the last 15 years in Burney. As a business owner and a very active member of the Burney community, I come in contact with hundreds of people every week. The most discussed issue of late has been the proposed windmill project on Hatchet Ridge.

I have lived in Shasta County for nearly 30 years with the last 15 years in Burney. As a business owner and a very active member of the Burney community, I come in contact with hundreds of people every week. The most discussed issue of late has been the proposed windmill project on Hatchet Ridge.

Lila Tang with instructor Robert Tamson during last year’s Becoming an Outdoor Woman, California fly fishing outing at Bidwell Ranch near Burney. This year’s event is set for Sept. 19 - and spaces are still availab

Forcing a quick decision on the Hatchet Ridge Wind turbine project divides the citizens of Burney.

BURNEY - Shake and bake. Thunder and lightning. Call it what you want.

Shake and bake. Thunder and lightning. Call it what you want. Fall River High School football team used the potent tandem of Nick Lakey and Ryan Stephenson to run over Burney and open the 2008 prep football season with a 40-13 non-league win on Wednesday.

Five eastern Shasta County residents were arrested Wednesday morning on suspicion of a slew of methamphetamine-related charges.

Six eastern Shasta County residents were arrested this morning on a slew of methamphetamine-related charges.

Around 18,400 marijuana plants were destroyed this morning during a bust on an illegal pot farm near Burney.

Last week was the family vacation. Those expectations, you know, they'll get you every time. We booked a place online for the full week, at a ranch on the banks of the Middlefork Smith River just outside of Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park. Our accommodation was a

Drug agents finished clearing a large marijuana cultivation site Thursday south of Burney, destroying about 2.3 tons of pot in the process.

Construction resumes at four locations between Redding and Burney beginning Monday.

Gas may be $3.98 in Redding, but up here in Burney at the USA station, it’s still a piratical $4.59. Capitalism only works when there’s a choice. Shame on Big Oil for this rapacious gouging, and shame on our government for standing idly by and letting them do it

A traffic stop in Redding on Friday resulted in the arrest of two Burney residents and the discovery of suspected methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia.

Motorists driving on Highway 299 this week can expect traffic delays between Redding and Burney.

Garden tour planned in the Burney area The annual Burney-Cassel-Hat Creek Garden Tour will be held from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. July 26. There will be several gardens on the tour, each showcasing plants or strategies that other gardeners might wa

A seemingly financially savvy Burney resident who thinks the wind turbines on Hatchet Ridge are a terrible idea sends along word that Babcock and Brown, the investment company behind the project, has seen some pretty choppy weather in the markets...

If you want to see fireworks Friday, you may have to travel to Mount Shasta. Because the north state’s fire conditions are crazy dry and dangerous, fireworks celebrations have been canceled and/or postponed left and right.  Extinguished fireworks include: Saturday’s Burney Basin Days f

Shasta County has released the Final Environmental Impact Report for Hatchet Ridge Wind, just in case you need a little light beach reading. The Planning Commission has scheduled a hearing on the project in Burney on July 24, at 7...

The telltale crash of thunder and the prospect of more lightning-caused fires rattled residents in the Burney area Saturday afternoon.