If businesses can help local young people find career paths, it will improve our economy and our health, argues the head of Shasta County Public Health.

The problem likely runs deeper than one doctor targeted by the California Medical Board, but the painful fact is Shasta County has a growing problem with prescription drug abuse.

Officials on Thursday announced the plans that will be offered through California's health exchange program. Blue Cross and Anthem will provide coverage for north state residents.

Methane from the rotting trash at Shasta County's West Central Landfill could become a source of cash. The county is seeking proposals from companies to build a system to harness the methane from rotting garbage to create electricity.

Few communities in the country were hammered harder when the real estate bubble burst than Stockton. Some called the city the foreclosure capital of the U.S. Back in the day, say five years ago, Realtors would host bus tours of foreclosed homes, shuttling prospective buyers around to different Stockton ne

A 33-year-old man from Stockton tried to kill himself today by cutting and stabbing himself with scissors at a Shasta Lake hair salon, Shasta County sheriff’s deputies said.

A Shasta Lake man was arrested today on 10 felony warrants after Shasta County sheriff’s deputies say they found him in a home at 13955 Ruby Way.

Home sales in Shasta County in April hit nearly a six-year high despite a limited supply of listings that continues to drive values up.

A six-man, six-woman Shasta County jury convicted this morning a 55-year-old registered sex offender of molesting two children whom he had met in church.

SHASTA LAKE - Shasta County sheriff's deputies have been sent to Central Valley High School after receiving reports that a staff member was injured.

We knew we wanted a green alternative vehicle for our Redding California real estate practice. Another important criteria for our new car purchase was that it be built in the USA. Which had also been true of the Cadillac that preceded it. Here is an interesting time lapse video of the Nissan Leaf as it is manufactured in

A single-wide mobile home was destroyed by a fire this morning that was contained to about one acre in the Big Bend area.

Shasta County residents voiced their concerns over a local water district's recent move to sell water to the San Joaquin Valley at a Board of Supervisors meeting Tuesday.

Pack trains carried everything imaginable into the new Shasta County in its early days. All the goldminers who descended here from just about everywhere needed, most importantly, food to eat. Pack trains containing hundreds of mules, carrying hundreds of pounds...

Shasta County supervisors are considering using a more high-tech online video streaming service. One Redding City Council Member thinks the city should follow suit.

Dancing with the Stars Shasta County Style continues to grow in popularity and over the last 6 years has become one of the premier events in the Redding area.  Your donations to this event have a double benefit.  First and foremost they help us provide shelter, care and hope to victims of domestic violence and sexual as

Local businesspeople need qualified workers. Kids need a good education and options in life. Somewhere in there, there's got to be a roadmap to a better Shasta County.

Two men from Redding, a woman from Shasta Lake. Here's the story from the local paper, including booking mugshots....

A presentation on the Affordable Care Act, popularly called Obamacare, that was scheduled to occur Thursday has been canceled for a lack of signups.

Shasta County's unemployment rate fell for the third straight month in April as the area's job picture continues to improve.

I submit that Patty and I have the only home in Shasta County with a Mexican eunuch hanging from the ceiling. The eunuch extending from our ceiling is in fact a stained-glass lamp shade suspended upside-down on a golden chain. It was manufactured in Mexico and purchased in Ensenada during one of our many excursions to the B

The Clear Creek Canal was the first major con­struction project in Shasta County and the most im­portant ditch ever built in the county.

The job picture in Shasta County continues to improve. Shasta County’s unemployment rate in April fell for the third straight month to 11.1 percent, hitting its lowest level in nearly five years, the state reported this morning.

You’ve likely seen the signs—green, with white lettering—small but distinct placards dotting roadsides and punctuating school and church properties throughout Shasta County. “No Room for Racism,” they proclaim. The signs—at one point 75 of them—have been a subtle but consistent presence in this Northern Califo

Shasta County Citizens Advocating Respect will hold its 25th anniversary on Monday. The group has many accomplishments since its 1988 founding.

Here’s a foreclosed Chalet style home in the woods out of Round Mountain in Shasta County “Serene setting in the country near Round

Shasta County Supervisor Les Baugh says a groundwater-substitution transfer that a local irrigation is considering could just whet the appetites of Southern California interests -- and ultimately leave north state wells and streams parched.

Humboldt County sheriff's deputies say they're continuing the search today for Shane Miller, who is accused murdering his wife and two daughters May 7 and then fleeing Shasta County.

Shasta County supervisors on Tuesday unanimously voted to hire a Lassen County psychiatrist as the county’s newest senior psychiatrist.

Two men charged with murder in the fatal 2011 stabbing of a Redding man are scheduled to begin standing trial today in Shasta County Superior Court.

The Redding City Council should not sell the chosen riverfront property to the McConnell Foundation or Turtle Bay Exploration Park. That property is more valuable than the Caldwell Park property and should be held in trust for the present and future residents of Redding and Shasta County.

Shasta County’s health officer says a local child likely died from meningitis late last week.

About a year ago, Rick Sbrocca pitched an idea to the Economic Development Corp. of Shasta County.

In a bid to hire a senior psychiatrist and cut down contracting costs, Shasta County is preparing to make its most lucrative job offer yet. The new employee would make $22,000 more than the next highest salary.

A seven woman, five man jury today found a Redding man who has been described as the architect of a Ponzi scheme that bilked scores of investors out of an estimated $250 million guilty of all but one of the three dozen criminal charges against him.

Shasta County's health officer says a local child likely died from meningococcal disease late last week.

Looking strictly at this summer, a proposal to sell a few thousand acre-feet of Anderson-Cottonwood Irrigation District water to parched farms in Central California, making up the shortage by tapping wells, will do trivial harm at most to anyone in Shasta County.

After more than 20 years of starts and stops, local craft brewers are making a market in Shasta County.

In 1913: The Terry timberland and lumbering industry in Shasta County was reorganized under a corporation — Shasta Land and Timber Co. — and was incorporated for $1 million. That meant lumber activity would be enlarged in the Terry timber belt. In all probability, Afterthought Copper, which was about to extend t

Special to the Record Searchlight The Baha’is of Shasta County are presenting film screenings of the documentary “Education Under Fire” detailing the denial of members of the Baha’i community a right to an education in Iran.

Two men charged with murder in the fatal 2011 stabbing of a Redding man had their upcoming trial confirmed today in Shasta County Superior Court.

In 1913: Redding proposed to build a bridge across the Sacramento River at Reid’s Ferry to accommodate the state’s $18 million highway. District Attorney Chenoweth gave an official opinion to the Board of Supervisors that Shasta County could be forced to reimburse the city of Redding for one-half the cost of the

A 27-year-old Cottonwood man accused of trying to kill two paramedics and an emergency medical technician by ramming his pickup into their ambulance outside Mercy Medical Center last year has been returned to Shasta County from Napa State Hospital for possible trial.

The Shasta County Planning Commission on Thursday put off until a June its decision on a use permit for a .25-megawatt solar facility in the Happy Valley area proposed by a San Francisco renewable energy company.

Logging was taking place here even before the discovery of gold in 1848. Samuel Hensley and his crew of woodcutters, under the employ of John Sutter, were sent here to cut trees in the vicinity of Battle Creek. After cutting and limbing trees, the trees were dropped into the Sacramento River and left to float to Sacramento,

A federal judge Thursday ruled against vintner Reverge Anselmo in his lawsuit that accuses Shasta County of violating his religious rights by ordering him to stop building a chapel on his Shingletown-area property.

A federal judge today made a judgment against vintner Reverge Anselmo in his lawsuit that accuses Shasta County of violating his religious rights by stopping work at a chapel on his Shingletown-area property.

The Shasta County Coroner's Office has identified the man struck and killed by a train in Redding on Saturday.

The Shasta County Planning Commission today put off until a June its decision on a use permit for a .25-megawatt solar facility in the Happy Valley area proposed by a San Francisco renewable energy company.

Supporters of Reverge Anselmo in his standoff with Shasta County over building permits have pointed to the high cost of outside attorneys for the county -- half a million and counting, at last report -- as reason to drop the...