YREKA -- A 46-year-old Campbell man was killed Tuesday morning in a solo vehicle crash on Highway 96 near Happy Camp in Siskiyou County.

A Siskiyou County brewer who tangled with federal regulators over the caps on his beer bottles says officials have given him the OK to keep the label "Try Legal Weed."

YREKA — A 46-year-old Campbell man was killed this morning in a solo vehicle crash on Highway 96 near Happy Camp in Siskiyou County.

As wildfires continue to burn in the north state, Siskiyou County supervisors are expected today to seek the governor’s help to reduce the threat of future blazes.

ORLEANS — Firefighters paid heartfelt tribute early Friday to one of their own who was killed last Saturday in the line of duty. A sunrise memorial service attended by more than 1,000 firefighters celebrated the life, and courage, of a 49-year-old Washington fire chief who was overrun by the Panther Fire so

YREKA -- The Girl Scouts of America is showing its own special gratitude to the firefighters battling wildfires in Siskiyou County.

As firefighters continued Thursday to encircle fires burning in Trinity County, a deadly blaze that claimed the life of a Washington firefighter last week in Siskiyou County continues to rapidly grow.

Siskiyou County’s Panther Fire, 15 miles southwest of Happy Camp, has grown by 1,239 acres in the last 24 hours and was at 5,338 acres this morning, officials said.

An autopsy performed Tuesday on a Washington firefighter killed Saturday in a wildfire near Happy Camp in Siskiyou County shows that he died as a result of thermal burns and smoke inhalation.

State Attorney General Jerry Brown on Tuesday warned Siskiyou County officials that he would sue if global warming isn’t addressed in plans to build a bottling plant in McCloud.

An autopsy performed today on a Washington firefighter who was killed Saturday in a wildfire near Happy Camp in Siskiyou County shows that he died as a result of thermal burns and smoke inhalation.

State Attorney General Jerry Brown today warned Siskiyou County officials that they’ll face legal challenges if Nestle doesn’t address global warming in its plans to build a bottling plant in McCloud.

A Washington state firefighter who died Saturday scouting the Panther Fire in Siskiyou County had sought cover from a fiery blow-over under his personal emergency fire shelter, fire officials said Monday.

The remains of a firefighter who died battling the Panther Fire have been retrieved and the Washington man’s identity has been confirmed, a Siskiyou County Sheriff’s dispatcher said this morning.

North state lightning-strike wildfires claimed another firefighter Saturday, the second in two days. Daniel Bruce Packer, 49, of Lake Tapps, Wash., has been identified as the probable victim of the Panther Fire although a positive identification cannot be confirmed at this time, Susan Gravenkamp, a Si

Daniel Bruce Packer, 49, of Lake Tapps, Washington has been named as the probable victim on the Panther Fire burning in Klamath National Forest., said Susan Gravenkamp of the Siskiyou County Sheriff's office.

Siskiyou County and U.S. Forest Service officials, unable to provide information earlier in the day about the identity of the firefighter they say was killed Saturday in the Klamath National Forest, now believe Daniel Packer, chief of the East Pierce Fire and Rescue in Washington, to be the probable victim.

Liquor licenses have been suspended at bars in Dunsmuir and Mount Shasta because of illegal drug activity, the state Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) has announced.

Trinity County authorities have released the name of a woman found dead at a remote lake close to the Siskiyou County line.

Trinity County authorities have released the name of a woman found dead at a remote lake close to the Siskiyou County line.

Trinity County authorities have released the name of a woman found dead at a remote lake close to the Siskiyou County line.

Trinity County authorities have for the moment labeled as suspicious the circumstances surrounding the death of a woman whose body was recovered Friday at a remote lake near the Siskiyou County line.

WEED -- A Weed man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for assaulting a corporal with the Weed Police Department in April, Siskiyou County's district attorney announced Thursday.

Lightning-sparked fires burning in western Siskiyou County have consumed 39,850 acres since June 21, the Interagency Incident Management Team reported.

In response to a piece the R-S published back in May by Siskiyou County Supervisor Marcia Armstrong, Felice Pace, longtime enviro activist in far Northern California, wonders on his blog where she's getting her information: Supervisor Armstrong's claims of significant...

A red flag warning for lightning will be in effect for most of Siskiyou County until 11 p.m. tonight.

HAPPY CAMP — The Siskiyou Complex of fires in far Western Siskiyou County had grown to 5,600 acres by this morning but crews were holding containment lines, Klamath National Forest officials said.

Firefighters in the Klamath National Forest continued today to battle five blazes in far rural Siskiyou County.

KLAMATH NATIONAL FOREST — Firefighters are battling five blazes in this forest in far rural Siskiyou County.

SEIAD VALLEY -- A motorcyclist was killed Thursday afternoon in an apparent solo crash in northern Siskiyou County.

MONTAGUE -- A father and son were arrested on suspicion of attempted burglary Monday after they allegedly tried to steal three bottles of booze by stuffing them down their pants -- only to have one of the bottles fall out. Vincent James Jones Sr., 55, and Vincent James Jones Jr., 37, both of Montague, tried to s

LAKE SISKIYOU -- A trail of orange peels Monday led a Siskiyou County sheriff's deputy to the camp of three teenagers who stole a case of the fruit from a fellow camper.

Reasons #86272 and 86273 why residents of this part of the country are not known for high I.Q.s:Pants fail would-be booze burglars MONTAGUE — A father and son were arrested on suspicion of attempted burglary Monday after they allegedly tried to steal three bottles of booze by stuf

LAKE SISKIYOU CAMPGROUND — A trail of orange peels Monday led a Siskiyou County Sheriff’s deputy to the camp of three teenagers who’d stolen a case of the fruit from a fellow camper.

Judging from her May 19 "Speak Your Piece" in the Record Searchlight, Siskiyou County Supervisor Marcia Armstrong has completely lost her moral compass as she navigates a losing effort to block the removal of the lower four Klamath River dams.

Two Siskiyou County teenagers were killed in a car wreck early Saturday, and the injured 20-year-old driver was arrested on suspicion of felony drunken driving and vehicular manslaughter.

YREKA -- Four Siskiyou County residents, including two young children, were injured Thursday morning when their sport utility vehicle went off Scott River Road near Quartz Valley Road and crashed into a pine tree, a spokesman for the California Highway Patrol said.

Michael Jason Schweitzer, 35, of Talent, Ore., was driving a Harley Davidson Sportster on Wednesday night when he left the road and crashed into an embankment, a Siskiyou County sheriff’s spokeswoman said.

MONTAGUE — Siskiyou County Sheriff’s deputies arrested a woman here Tuesday evening after she was allegedly found drunk, stumbling down a city street with her 7-year-old child in tow, shouting at passing motorists.

Siskiyou County supervisors are on track to approve a 2 percent bump in the tax tourists are charged when they stay the night at a motel.

MONTAGUE -- A 52-year-old Albion man was stabbed -- possibly with a barbecue meat fork -- early Monday morning in the wake of a family argument at the Cascade Sun Mobile Home Park, the Siskiyou County Sheriff's Department reported in a press statement.

A 52-year-old Albion man was stabbed — possibly with a barbecue meat fork — early this morning in the wake of a family argument at the Cascade Sun Mobile Home Park, the Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Department reported in a press statement.

Three schools in Shasta County and one in Siskiyou County have received the California Distinguished Schools award, state officials announced last week.

By Thom Gabrukiewicz The fourth-annual fundraiser banquet for the Shasta/Lassen Chapter of the Mule Deer Foundation will be May 3 at the Redding Convention Center. • Doors open at 3:30 p.m., with dinner at 6:30 p.m. and live auction a

A 21-year-old woman arrested at her grandmother’s house in Big Springs is awaiting extradition to Maryland to face arson charges in connection with a December apartment fire, the Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Department reported today.

A Weed man was arrested Thursday on suspicion of illegally prescribing medical marijuana to patients and booked then released from the Siskiyou County Jail.

A Mount Shasta woman who worked as a part-time physical education teacher at a Siskiyou County elementary school is facing criminal charges that claim she falsified documents and forged Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's signature on at least one of them to obtain her teaching job.

DUNSMUIR -- Two men were arrested in connection with one of two arson fires over the weekend. Siskiyou County Sheriff's deputies are searching for a third man who is believed to be a witness, they said Monday.

Tiny toxins produced by bright green algae along the Klamath River in Siskiyou County have been added by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to a list of factors to be considered while forming new water quality standards for the river.

A 25-year-old Siskiyou County man serving in the U.S. Army died Saturday from wounds he suffered when his vehicle ran over an explosive device in Gholam Haydar Kala, Afghanistan.