Three members of the City Council up in Shasta Lake -- that's a majority, for those keeping score at home -- say the city's hillside ordinance is too strict, makes building a home too difficult and needs revisions. As the...

Rank-and-file Redding police Thursday rejected a City Council counteroffer on concessions, all but assuring the department will lose four officers to layoffs at year’s end.

Rank-and-file Redding police Thursday rejected a City Council counteroffer on concessions, all but assuring the department will lose four officers to layoffs at year’s end.

Rank and file Redding police have rejected a City Council counter-offer on concessions, all but assuring the department will lose four officers to layoffs at year’s end.

The field of potential Redding City Council candidates remains as crowded as ever even after one challenger withdrew for lack of funds.

In fairness, the top managers at the city of Redding have taken a hit amid the budget cuts, through pay freezes and furloughs. I've long wondered, though, why for all the talk on the City Council about having employees pick...

Frank Strazzarino e-mails the scoop. "Well-known, affable and experienced greater Redding area Chamber Executive Director running for Council. Of course, that would be Debe Hopkins, Anderson Chamber's Executive Director. FS Source: Anderson Valley Post, hard copy edition"...

Greg Parish has withdrawn from the Redding City Council race.

RED BLUFF — Top-level employees including the city manager, police chief and human resources director will start paying their share of retirement contributions, the City Council’s latest step in shrinking a $1.4 million budget deficit.

At least a dozen potential candidates have taken out papers or otherwise said they plan to run for City Council, but of course they're not on the ballot unless they gather signatures, pay their fees, and make it official. Already,...

Candidates for the November 2, 2010, Redding City Council and City Clerk elections have at least two more weeks to return final paperwork to secure a spot on the ballot. Forms are due by August 6. However, if any incumbent elects not to run, the filing deadline will be extended by law to August 11 for non-

SHASTA LAKE — Three Shasta Lake City Council members say a hillside building and grading ordinance is too restrictive and should be changed to make it easier for developers to build on slopes.

Watch your elected Redding City Council in action: Click here for video of the July 20 meeting’s lengthy discussion of

Ken Murray, using a “public safety first” campaign, will seek to regain the Redding City Council seat he narrowly lost two years ago.

Commenter "not_an_expert" -- who sells himself short; he plainly knows more than most about the details of the city budget -- writes in response to yesterday's editorial with a common complaint about the City Council's priorities. The gist: The city...

Ken Murray will seek to regain the Redding City Council seat he narrowly lost two years ago with a “public safety first” campaign.

And have the results published in the newspaper? In the interest of fairness, if candidate Russell Hunt gets one, shouldn't they all? From a profile this morning on Hunt, headlined: "Russell Hunt: Privatize city services to save funds": Hunt has...

Here's one more reason to get out and vote. I noted over the weekend that the special election that made a charter city of the now-notorious Southland city of Bell -- the election that would have allowed city councilors to...

Redding City Council candidate Russell Hunt wants to fire city management and turn many public services over to private contractors.

DUNSMUIR — On the surface it may look like no one’s beating down the door to join the City Council.

In a concession to the Great Recession, the Redding City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to skip an annual increase in fees and service charges.

RED BLUFF — An effort to get promoters of special events to pay the city for traffic enforcement failed this week, splitting a City Council grappling with a tight budget.

A street minister with a no-frills agenda has entered the increasingly crowded contest for three Redding City Council seats on Nov. 2.

A 3-2 Redding City Council majority this evening essentially rejected a concession from the city’s two police unions designed to postpone layoff of four police officers.

And some people hereabouts thought Mike Warren was overpaid... Welcome to Bell, a tiny, largely Hispanic enclave of Los Angeles, where the city manager pulls down nearly $800,000 a year and members of the part-time city council make $100,000 per...

Redding could join a host of California cities considering a tax on marijuana.

According to the agenda for Tuesday's city council meeting...to discuss the idea of taxing medical marijuana sales inside the city of Redding and her idea of moving the annual State of the City speech from the beginning of the year...

Well, Pat Jones wanted a more diverse mix of invocations at City Council meetings, and he's getting them. If I'm not mistaken, the first outside religious leader to lead a council invocation -- not counting City Councilwoman Missy McArthur --...

The Mount Shasta city council is opposing a proposed ordinance that would ban cloud seeding and water "extraction" within the city limits. Sounds like it'll be an interesting campaign. The Mount Shasta Herald reports here. As Mark Twain famously said,...

Come November, could women make up the majority of the Redding City Council? I’d be tempted to take that bet.

Another north state political veteran has joined the crowd of challengers vying for three open Redding City Council seats in November.

I think Shasta Lake City Council member Dolores Lucero is incompetent. She is dangerous and damaging to our city. It is time for her to go.

A $3.8 million contract has been awarded to a Redding firm to build a new sheriff's substation and temporary City Council chambers in Shasta Lake.

Greg Parish was so outraged by a recent Redding City Council decision to raise utility rates that he’s taken out papers to run for one of the three seats on the dais up for grabs in November.

Despite their recent calls for a Shasta Lake City Council member’s ouster, the former mayor says she and her husband are not trying to launch a recall effort to remove Dolores Lucero.

Longtime Redding conservative local political activist Gary Cadd announced he’ll make a second bid this fall for one of three open City Council seats.

The formal filing period doesn’t even start until July 12, but already a crowded field is warming up for the November race for Redding City Council. The large, diverse slate of candidates — at least 10 candidates, including two incumbents, for three seats — will foster the serious debate that the city n

Could this be the Year of the Woman in Redding? Come November we could have Sandra Speer, Francie Sullivan and Missy McArthur sitting on the city council dais. With money from the Chamber of Commerce, incumbents Patrick Jones and Rick...

A former city of Redding human resources director has announced she’s running for one of three open City Council seats.

So a former Redding resident continues to insist. But the money was, in fact, repaid. No doubt the political attention to the issue helped. An apathetic public might have let it slide, which might have tempted future city councils to...

A 30-year-old political novice will be the first Mien-American to run for Redding City Council.

As of 3:30 this afternoon the following folks have taken out papers to run for the three open Redding city council seats: Rick Bosetti Sou Saechao Steve Hobson Francie Sullivan More to come: Patrick Jones, Gary Cadd, Ken Murray (?),...

The Red Bluff City Council will consider tonight closing the city pool, pulling out of the county drug task force, reducing the hours the police department is open to the public and cutting employee wages and benefits.

Our city council's been taking a lot of heat lately -- including from me -- about the budget-related layoffs in the police department. One of our city council members shares a letter received that expresses a different POV. I redacted...

PASADENA (AP) — A man who gave a Nazi salute at a Santa Cruz City Council meeting is having his day in court.

This has got to rank as one of the most tone-deaf comments by a local official during the current Great Recession. Kurt Starman's rationale for (unsuccessfully) urging the city council to approve the purchase of the Civic Plaza building across...

Need more fiber in your cartoon diet? Here’s A News Cafe’s coverage of the latest Redding City Council meeting

On the radio this morning Redding Mayor Patrick Jones embraced the idea of term limits for city council members (two terms and out, "eight years is plenty"), continued to diss the Sundial Bridge ("it was all right," he said of...

North state political veteran Francie Sullivan will seek one of the three Redding City Council seats up for grabs in November.

North state political veteran Francie Sullivan will seek one of the three Redding City Council seats up for grabs in November.