The Shasta Lake City Council will touch on medical marijuana, open-meetings policies and utility rate hikes at its next meeting Tuesday night.

SACRAMENTO - A Junction City man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly growing marijuana on three Trinity County properties he owns, it was announced today.

Trinity County narcotics deputies arrested a man Friday after finding more than 40 pounds of marijuana, other drugs and a gun in a U-Haul truck during a traffic stop just outside Lewiston, according to the Trinity County Sheriff’s Office.

A Shasta County deputy arrested a man in Shasta Lake Tuesday night who allegedly had marijuana, methamphetamine and a loaded revolver in his Jeep.

Last year, the Rand Corp. the Los Angeles-based think tank, published -- and then retracted --- a study that purported to find that crime dropped in neighborhoods surrounding medical-marijuana dispensaries. Well, that report was retracted, but the Sacramento News and...

The subject of marijuana and its use appears almost daily in the news, including, recently, three busloads of teens on a ski trip to Nevada caught with two large kitchen size trash bags of marijuana, plus alcohol and drug paraphernalia. And a commentary in this paper last month ("Anti-marijuana hysteria never made sense

SHASTA LAKE — The city of Shasta Lake's planning commissioners approved new medical marijuana ordinance language that, they say, won't shutter dispensaries in the city or put the city in conflict with federal laws.

I can surmise that I'm not alone in my sarcastic opinion, but keep up the excellent journalism regarding "medical" marijuana. I'm sure a majority of your readers are sick and tired of the pandering to the lowest common denominator.

I can surmise that I'm not alone in my sarcastic opinion, but keep up the excellent journalism regarding "medical" marijuana. I'm sure a majority of your readers are sick and tired of the pandering to the lowest common denominator.

I can surmise that I'm not alone in my sarcastic opinion, but keep up the excellent journalism regarding "medical" marijuana. I'm sure a majority of your readers are sick and tired of the pandering to the lowest common denominator.

I can surmise that I'm not alone in my sarcastic opinion, but keep up the excellent journalism regarding "medical" marijuana. I'm sure a majority of your readers are sick and tired of the pandering to the lowest common denominator.

A judge Tuesday dismissed patients from a lawsuit filed on behalf of medical-marijuana dispensary owners against the city of Redding, noting "the real showdown" will take place next month.

SHASTA LAKE — The planning commission will take public input Thursday on proposed changes to the city's rules on medical marijuana dispensaries.

One of Redding's most vocal medical cannabis advocates is questioning whether a low-income housing program run by the city illegally discriminates against marijuana patients, and he's asked the Shasta County district attorney to weigh in on the matter.

Two Hyampom Volunteer Fire Department members were arrested this week in Weaverville after allegedly trying to sell 50 pounds of marijuana to an undercover agent, the Trinity County Sheriff's Office reported Friday.

Two members of the Hyampom Volunteer Fire Department were arrested this week in the Burger King parking lot in Weaverville after investigators said they found 50 pounds of processed marijuana in the trunk of their vehicle.

I've heard folks joke that, in California, it will soon be illegal to smoke anything but marijuana. In Marin County, that might not be a joke. From the I-J: Marin's war on smoking was blunted Tuesday as a measure cracking...

At least in Oregon. Weird story from the Medford Mail-Tribune: The U.S. Supreme Court decided this week not to hear Jackson County Sheriff Mike Winter's legal challenge that asserted U.S. law trumps state laws when people with medical marijuana cards...

A medical marijuana group seeking to recall Shasta County Sheriff Tom Bosenko was unable to gather 20 valid signatures that would have started the process.

A medical-marijuana group seeking to recall Shasta County Sheriff Tom Bosenko was unable to gather 20 valid signatures that would have started the process.

The countywide fight between local government and medical marijuana patients intensified Tuesday as the county's top law enforcement official was handed a recall notice and a judge upheld the city of Anderson's request to shut down its only dispensary.

The county-wide fight between local government and medical marijuana patients intensified today as the county’s top law enforcement official was handed a recall notice and a judge upheld the city of Anderson’s request to shut down its only dispensary.

Law enforcement authorities are combing the Anderson and Cottonwood areas this morning for the occupants of a white pickup with a Harley-Davidson sticker on its tailgate after they reportedly robbed a man at gunpoint of about three pounds of medical marijuana.

Lindy May-Saunders is worried about her access to medical marijuana should Redding's dispensaries shut down.

A group of local medical cannabis advocates is trying to gather 10,000 signatures to overturn a recent ordinance Shasta County supervisors passed that restricts marijuana growing for county residents.

While I agree with your observation ("Nasty outbursts do nothing for marijuana cause," Dec. 14) that marijuana proponents are not always fond of the rules of decorum, it seems inappropriate to castigate them like unruly children. Please consider what is actually happening here: People dealing with serious medical is

A 54-year-old Corning man was arrested Thursday after deputies found more than 700 marijuana plants near his home, according to the Tehama County Sheriff’s Office.

SHASTA LAKE — The City Council voted Tuesday night to let the city's two medical-marijuana collectives remain in business and to revise the city zoning code to comply with a recent California Court of Appeal ruling that has put collectives' local permits in legal jeopardy statewide.

An outspoken Redding medical marijuana patient and advocate presented three City Council members with recall notices Tuesday night.

SHASTA LAKE -- The City Council voted tonight to let this city’s two medical-marijuana collectives remain in business and to revise the city zoning code to comply with a recent California Court of Appeal ruling that has put collectives’ local permits in legal jeopardy statewide.

An outspoken Redding medical marijuana patient and advocate presented three City Council members with recall notices tonight.

The Shasta Lake City Council on Tuesday will consider a request by Councilwoman Dolores Lucero to possibly ban medical marijuana dispensaries.

It's Reefer Madness all over again. Many people may remember the movie by the same name made in 1936. It portrayed those who smoked marijuana as insane psychotics. People such as Robert Mitchum, a famous actor, were put in jail for possessing marijuana.

I am 73 years old. I've never smoked pot and never truly approved of it. But I know this. People who use marijuana will go back to paying for it from people who obtained or grew the product illegally. This is Prohibition all over again — in its worst form.

The ultimate going-out-of-business promotion? Wonder if someone's thought about doing this in Redding. The AP reports on a Sacramento-area co-op: ORANGEVALE, Calif.--A Sacramento-area medical marijuana dispensary is creating a buzz as it goes out of business--in more ways than one....

The director of the local chapter of a nonprofit organization seeking to reform California's marijuana laws has been booted for his angry outburst during Tuesday's meeting of the Shasta County Board of Supervisors after they banned medical marijuana dispensaries in the county's unincorporated areas.

OROVILLE — Almost two years to the day after they first voted to ban medical marijuana dispensaries in Butte County, county supervisors will find the topic back on the agenda for their Jan. 10, 2012, meeting.

The director of the local chapter of a statewide nonprofit organization that seeks to reform California's marijuana laws has been booted for his angry outburst during Tuesday’s meeting of the Shasta County Board of Supervisors that banned medical marijuana dispensaries in the county’s unincorporated areas.

A Redding man accused of violating the city's medical marijuana cultivation ordinance won't have to move from his rental home at least until after the Christmas holiday.

It was bound to happen. Here's the dope on "Weed Wars," on the Discovery Channel, which stars the owners, employees and patients of a collective in Oakland and the politicians trying to shut it down....

Rowdy and rude behavior at public meetings to discuss medical marijuana has become all too routine. Faced with opposing viewpoints, the Proposition 215 crowd has an ugly habit of responding with boos, catcalls and nasty interruptions.

The Shasta County Board of Supervisors unanimously adopted an ordinance Tuesday banning medical marijuana dispensaries in unincorporated parts of the county and narrowly passed a second law hours later regulating pot growth for county residents.

The Shasta County Board of Supervisors unanimously adopted an ordinance today banning medical marijuana dispensaries in unincorporated parts of the county and narrowly passed a second ordinance several hours later regulating pot growth for county residents.

In the eyes of the federal government, marijuana is classified as a Schedule 1 drug and is no different than heroin, cocaine or any other hard drug. The mere mention of heroin and marijuana in the same sentence as a comparable drug makes many people, including this writer, roll their eyes. Heroin increases the likelihood [.

Your editorial last Sunday about trying to come to grips with the federal versus the state law regarding marijuana made a great deal of sense. What does not make sense is the anti-marijuana sentiment that pervades Washington, D.C., specifically and law enforcement in general. Many people seem to think that because marijuana

A Redding medical marijuana patient says the city is forcing his eviction from his longtime home because he didn't follow the city's medical marijuana cultivation ordinance.

Following what's quickly becoming a trend throughout the region and the state, Shasta County supervisors on Tuesday will consider an ordinance that would ban medical marijuana dispensaries in unincorporated parts of the county and another that would introduce growing restrictions for county residents.

McClatchy News Service covered a Senate hearing yesterday, chaired by Dianne Feinstein, on the spread of marijuana growing on public lands. Curious thing, though: One fact that emerged from the hearing is that public-lands growing might be easing. It's easy...

A hardy amen to your editorial of Sunday! As the former "Mr. Just Say No" of Shasta County for over 10 years, I tried to help youngsters fight peer pressure to use alcohol, marijuana and other drugs. As the father of a daughter who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis at the age of 17, I did everything within my po

Redding will seek a court order to shut down medical marijuana dispensaries in the city, the City Council decided Tuesday.