Q. “Our 5-month-old German shepherd jumps up on people. He already weighs 60 pounds and we’re afraid he will hurt my mother-in-law. Will he eventually outgrow this?” You could wait the 10 or 12 years it will take for him to become too arthritic to jump up, or

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.

If you've got sex offenders, you've got mail. Shasta County residents can now sign up for free e-mail notifications telling them when a sex offender has moved within a mile of their home or other designated address.

College of the Siskiyous softball coach Doug Eastman thinks both his team and conference rival Shasta have the talent to match up with anyone in the state Elite Eight tournament this weekend.

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

Shasta College softball coach Sonny Stupek said he didn't want the heart attack he suffered the day his team clinched a playoff spot to distract from his players' achievement, but we figure it should be an extra motivation out on the diamond.

Sitting in the shadow of white canopies while the noon sun blazed overhead and gusts of wind blew across the steps of the Shasta County Courthouse, friends and families of the area’s fallen lawmen solemnly watched and listened.

JJ Abraham and Craig Howard, teammates on the Shasta High School golf team, will be competitors -- albeit, friendly ones -- come June 2.

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.

Absentee voters in Shasta County will want to double-check their ballots' return envelopes, because 37 have been found to mistakenly bear the Yuba County Clerk's return address.

The name Shasta identifies a mountain, a lake, a town, a dam -- and now a spider.

A Shasta County dance group has been selected as the first-ever United States entry in a Hip Hop World Championship competition next month in Bremen, Germany.

The fourth-seeded Shasta High School baseball team upset No. 1 Pleasant Valley 4-2 Tuesday to advance to Saturday's Northern Section Division I championship game against Foothill.

Shasta County Sheriff’s deputies arrested two men this evening following a pursuit that involved the sheriff’s All-Terrain Motorcycle Unit.

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

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

Sonny Stupek was able to joke Monday that the stress of his Shasta College softball team's come-from-behind series win Sunday over Ohlone is what sent him to the hospital with a heart attack.

It was structured much like a book report.

The Shasta County Sheriff's Office Monday identified the teenager killed Saturday night on Interstate 5 north of Gilman Road.

Shasta's Simon Hundeshagen made it to the semifinals Monday in the Northern Section boys individual tennis championships before falling 6-1, 6-3 to top-seeded Max Littlejohn on Pleasant Valley.

Shasta County Sheriff’s deputies arrested two men this evening following a pursuit that involved the sheriff’s All-Terrain Motorcycle Unit.

Sonny Stupek was able to joke Monday that the stress of his Shasta College softball team’s come-from-behind series win Sunday over Ohlone is what sent him to the hospital with a heart attack.

I'm not surprised, given what I've heard from him, but it's interesting that Citizens for Smart Growth endorsed Leondard Moty. An e-mail from Ron Reece: Citizens for Smart Growth endorses Leonard Moty for Shasta County Board of Supervisors for District...

The Shasta County Sheriff’s office this morning identified the teenager killed Saturday night on Interstate 5 north of Gilman Road.

Volunteer Rayola Pratt takes a food break at the Shasta Art Faire Sunday afternoon. The annual event attracts an estimated 6,000 people over two days - for music, food, arts and crafts and other fun. The weather was perfect (light...

I must be very old since I’ve known Jeff Gore since he was a baby, yet here he is, a brilliant young mechanical engineering student who happens to be a poker expert. He’s also a terrific guy, a great contributor to Food for Thought forums and the son of my good friends, Jim and Darcie Go

Bike to Work Week -- a worldwide event that starts today -- will feel like any other for the small corps of Shasta County commuters whose preferred transportation fuel is oatmeal and orange juice. But more people in the greater Redding area are pondering pedal power as gasoline prices push $4 per gal

To punch a ticket to the state tournament, a team has to earn its way there.

A Shasta Lake teen was killed after being struck by a car while walking in and out of the northbound lanes on Interstate 5 north of Gilman Road Saturday night.

Rex and Pegi Cooper moved their family from Southern California to Shasta County in the early 1970s for a lifestyle change.

Kids' Tour of Turtle Bay. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at Turtle Bay Exploration Park in Redding. Tickets $30 SLT members, $35 nonmembers. Call 241-7886 or go to www.shastalandtrust.org for tickets and information.

Tom Carroll is transportation director for the Shasta Union High School District. He manages the district's fleet of buses and these days finds himself worrying more and more about the rising price of gas. The following is an excerpt from a recent conversation.

A Shasta Lake teen was fa´ tally injured when struck by a car while walking in and out of the northbound lanes on Interstate 5 north of Gil´ man Road Saturday night.

An 18-year-old Shasta Lake man was killed late Saturday night when he was struck by a car on Interstate 5 as he wandered in and out of traffic on Interstate 5 south of Lakehead.

Shasta's Simon Hundeshagen and Enterprise's Chris McGalliard advanced Saturday in Chico to the Northern Section individual tennis quarterfinals.

Mrs. Robert Reading holds her 3-month-old daughter, Elanor Lee Reading, in February 1907. Elanor was a grandchild of Major Pierson B. Reading, the first citizen of Shasta County, and was distantly related to George Washington on her grandmother's side.

Tax-paying residents and property owners of Shasta County probably assume that if they are living in an area zoned for one residence per 2 or 5 acres, they are protected from waking up next week and finding that the adjacent lot is the site of a new housing project, a 7-11, or a gas station.

Baseball is a simple game.

SHASTA LAKE -- Going down 0-2 in the count to a pitcher your own head coach calls the best in the league is never a desirable position.

Low water levels at Lake Shasta, record gas prices, a slumping economy — not exactly an ideal start to the summer tourist season. But those who make a living off the north state’s vacation hot spots remain upbeat.

Shasta County lost its bid for $24.9 million in state funding to build a 221-bed jail expansion because, unlike competing small counties, it declined to provide a site for a state prison re-entry facility.

When Leonard Moty jumped into the race for Shasta County supervisor, many local political handicappers figured name recognition alone would give his campaign the horsepower to win.

Shasta High School freshman Corinne Smith scored in the lone goal in the 10th minute Thursday as the third-seeded Wolves upset top-seeded Pleasant Valley 1-0 to win the EAL Cup.

A 35-year-old Red Bluff man was sentenced today in Shasta County Superior Court to eight years in prison after being convicted in late February of recklessly evading police while leading officers in November on a seven-mile chase and making a U-turn on Interstate 5.

Margaret Riffel, who wrote a letter in today's paper advocating a light-rail system linking Shasta County's cities, sends in a follow-up. Space rationing prevents my publishing it in the paper, but she makes a fine point: Editor, "Just how do...

Jump-starting the north state's wheezing economy will have to take a backseat to life's everyday expenses. That's what Shasta County residents said when asked what they will do with their tax rebates. The checks started showing up in bank accounts last week.

A handful of Shasta High School parents are complaining about the way school officials dealt with a colony of bats that flew through the school's band room last fall.

Open house to launch monthlong campaign Record Searchlight staff An open house today at a new mental health community center in Redding kicks off Shasta County’s recognition of May as Mental Health Month.