... for winning the chili cook-off Wednesday night at the Redding Rodeo Grounds. You'll notice by the picture that his hat bore a Red Bluff Round-Up logo -- and it didn't get shot up. (Figured they wouldn't try that again.)...

I moved to Redding when I was 5,  so I’m familiar with the whole Rodeo Week thing. But I always wonder what goes through the minds of Redding newcomers and visitors who experience Rodeo Week  and all its activities for the first time.

Four-year-old Frankie Paulson and her Pomeranian, Gizmo, size up some of the competition Thursday before the start of the Asphalt Cowboys' annual Kiddie Pet Parade at the Mt. Shasta Mall in Redding. The yearly parade is a part of the Redding Rodeo Week activities.

• Rescue mission fills fundraising post • Vista Hills celebrates with open house • Forklift training set in downtown Redding

Thursday's Northern Section Division VI baseball championship dripped with so much cheese, not even the Hallmark Channel will pick up the movie rights.

Redding Electric Utility will shell out $6.9 million to escape an auction-rate bond market gone bad in the recent subprime mortgage-related credit crunch.

A rash of sick and dead skunks mainly in west Redding during the past three months is the result of canine distemper, said veterinary scientists Thursday at the University of California at Davis.

Norm Ryan, a member of the City Council-appointed committee reviewing possible financing for a new Redding police station, has resigned after accusing city staff members of thwarting his efforts to consider all possible funding options for the building.

A 25-year-old Redding man is becoming quite a Shasta County historian and author.

Cindy Barnett and Cathy Giacomelli of Redding might make pretty good detectives.

• Two firefighters treated at blaze • Second bomb threat closes Redding school • Motorcyclist found dead after crash on Highway 3

My esteemed co-bloggers Marc Beauchamp and Dylan Darling note with pleasure that the governor's budget would spare a couple of state parks that an earlier proposal had threatened to close. I like parks. I live in Redding because it's so...

The Lone Stranger and his sidekick have been unmasked. Cathy Giacomelli of Redding correctly identified the desperados this morning and will pocket $300 this afternoon for solving the annual Redding Rodeo Week puzzler, said Asphalt Cowboys spokesman Duane Tomei, who was the Lone Stranger. Barb

DAVIS — Veterinary scientists at the University of California at Davis have named canine distemper, a virus, as the cause of the numerous skunk, raccoon and fox deaths near Redding earlier this year.

The loot has been found. The Asphalt Cowboys’ annual Rodeo Week treasure hunt ended this morning when Cindy Barnett found the loot hidden at the Redding Dog Park at Airpark Drive and Placer Street, said Cowboys spokesman Duane Tomei. She will receive her check tonight at the cowboys’ clubhouse.

Classes at Oasis Community Day School in Redding have been canceled today after the second bomb threat in two days.

Redding has settled a long-simmering legal dispute with Dale Stickney Construction at the likely cost of delays for a park planned along Lake Boulevard. The city will pay Dale $793,000 to head off a multimillion-dollar lawsuit stemming from disagreements over Big League Dreams sports park constructio

Amy Van Kirk, Shasta Lake: In light of the current bad economic news, I would like to recognize a Redding business that isn't cutting corners to save money at the cost of customer service.

Each year, the Redding Rodeo directors try to figure another way to improve.

SACRAMENTO -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday released a $144.3 billion state budget that eliminates a massive deficit by selling lottery bonds and cutting billions in state programs.

SACRAMENTO -- A Redding family has reached an approximately $1 million out-of-court settlement with a toy company it sued in federal court after their 4-year-old boy swallowed strong magnets contained in a set of building blocks.

A 15-year-old Redding boy faces a possible seven-year juvenile and adult prison sentence next week for assaulting another teenager outside a Redding movie theater last summer.

Firefighters get pulled up a hillside Wednesday with patient Margaret E. Ogness, 56, of North Highlands, who lost control of her car on a curve on Highway 299 and dropped 100 feet down an embankment, the California Highway Patrol reported. The car landed upside down in Willow Creek about two miles west of the Fr

Brain Injury Guidance Group: 5:30 to 7 p.m., Redding Library Reading Room, 1100 Parkview Ave., 351-5977.

By now, hopefully you’ve read my first column about selecting good garden site, incorporated lots of good compost and weeding it bare! But, even if you are still in the process of soil preparation, lets talk about what t

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.

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.

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

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.

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 Redding planning commissioners, after OKing a modest (too modest, a few said) city plan to promote historic preservation, heard a brief pitch this afternoon about Shasta Forward, a yearlong planning party that is surveying county residents about what they...

Shasta Rose Society will host its 16th Annual Rose Garden Tour on Sat. May 17, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. (rain or shine). Visit five beautiful private rose gardens in the Redding area for a $10 donation. Proceeds from the event are used to sponsor annual scholarships at Shasta College. One of the gardens will featur

Marie Carr-Fitzgerald avidly supports a city proposal to promote the preservation of historic buildings in Redding. (She'd better -- she's president of the historical society, for goodness' sake.) But she acknowledged yesterday that Redding isn't rich with vintage architecture, even...

I'm confused. Thought Jim Zauher was Redding's economic development czar. Sounds like Oakland-based Realtor John Troughton, retained by the city, will be plowing the same ground: "A lot of people like to come up here and go fishing. ... I...

The Redding Fire Department will hold a memorial service and dedication ceremony Wednesday to honor Captain Ed Andrews, who collapsed during physical training and died on May 14, 2007.

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

Yesterday you met poker expert Jeff Gore and read his introductory piece about poker hand analysis. Join me in welcoming Jeff’s first column where he delves deeply into one poker hand from start to finish. - Don

Trader Joe's expects to open in Redding before Oct. 1, company spokeswoman Alison Mochizuki said Monday.

A commercial real estate agent who specializes in working with private equity firms has been tapped by the city of Redding to sell lots in Stillwater Business Park.

It's Rodeo Week in Redding, so it must follow that there will be a "bank robbery" somewhere in town today. The infamous Lone Stranger hits a Redding bank every year at this time.

Chuck Lema, far left, takes Mason Martina, 2, Andrea Goodban, 6, and Emma Pollet, 7, all of Redding, on a wagon ride at the Redding Rodeo Grounds during Special Kids Day. Members of the Asphalt Cowboys and Redding Rodeo Association offered horseback and wagon rides to children with disabilities Monday. This week

A proposal that aims to preserve historic and architecturally significant buildings in Redding will be the focus of a public hearing today.

Redding isn't Rome, and the Pine Street School isn't the Pantheon, but the River City still has its history.

The Cottonwood man struck by a train in Red Bluff early Saturday was upgraded from critical to serious condition Monday at Mercy Medical Center in Redding, a Red Bluff police department spokesman said.

Everyone in the world outside of Redding must have already noticed this, but visiting friends in Sacramento this weekend, I was struck by the number of 20-something hipsters wearing funky T-shirts advertising their enthusiasm for -- the latest alt-country phenom?...

Everyone in the world outside of Redding must have already noticed this, but visiting friends in Sacramento this weekend, I was struck by the number of 20-something hipsters wearing funky T-shirts advertising their enthusiasm for -- the latest alt-country phenom?...

My kids took a break from Home School the other day and ventured off to the Sacramento river trail and the Sundial bridge. The kids took these pictures. Beautiful Sky