YREKA – Two Weed men have been arrested on suspicion of gang-raping an intoxicated 18-year-old woman in 2007, a spokesman for the Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office said today.

Six of seven Siskiyou County communities met the Friday deadline to raise the money needed to keep their branch libraries open, a county official said.

This report from the Siskiyou Daily News is about the coolest thing I've heard all year: Siskiyou County may have a stake in the future of unmanned space travel after Tuesday's meeting of the Siskiyou County Board of Supervisors, where...

This week's Sacramento River journey begins at the place where the Middle Creek Hotel and ferry once stood and travels north ending where Castle Crags Tavern & Resort once existed just south of the Siskiyou County Line.

A Siskiyou County Sheriff’s dog was shot and killed early Tuesday after escaping from his pen to romp in a neighbor’s yard.

An editorial last week noted the difference in treatment between Shasta County's (and, though we didn't mention it, you could say the same about Siskiyou County's) appeals of the Shasta-Trinity National Forest's travel-management plan and The Wilderness Society's appeal of...

Airing on KQED on Sunday, "Commune" chronicles the Black Bear Ranch commune, founded near Yreka in '68 and still going. Excerpt of a review in the Chronicle: What's most interesting about the film is what it says about human nature...

The upcoming trial of a Hornbrook man accused of kidnapping, sexual assault and trying to murder a 3-year-old Yreka girl who reportedly was buried alive will remain in Siskiyou County.

The Siskiyou Arts Council offers youths 12 to 25 a chance to view and discuss films in different genres on three nights and in three different locations in July throughout Siskiyou County.

Dennis Smith’s sculpture “Coming Home.” If you’re traveling through Siskiyou County and have a bit of extra time, I suggest stopping at the Living Memorial Sculpture Garden near Weed.

A commercial fishing group has teamed up with an environmental group to sue the state and Siskiyou County over how groundwater permits are issued around the Scott River.

FORT JONES — A Siskiyou County weekly newspaper founded in 1972 has printed its last edition.

MOUNT SHASTA — A rescue effort was launched this evening for two San Francisco Bay Area women who are stranded on Mt. Shasta, a spokeswoman for the Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office said.

The Los Angeles Times dispatches a reporter to Siskiyou County to report on the impending demise of the county's library system. The story makes grim reading -- because of the libraries, but also because of the background. In his three...

An injured Tacoma, Wash., man was rescued by helicopter from the slopes of Mt. Shasta this afternoon after he reportedly slipped in an ice field and fell an unknown distance down the mountain, a spokeswoman for the Siskiyou County Sheriff's Office said.

Literature and gardening have long gone hand in hand. This weekend, and for the past five years, literature in Siskiyou County gets a helping-hand from the annual Mt. Shasta Garden Tour - organized by Katie Jessup, owner of

YREKA — Fourteen Siskiyou County residents were arrested Thursday and two children taken into protective custody following a three-month investigation into illicit drug trafficking in the Yreka and Montague areas, it was announced today.

A convicted serial killer serving several consecutive life sentences in Oregon says he didn’t murder a woman in Weed in 1986, although Siskiyou County Sheriff’s investigators suspect he may have.

As in a lot of other places, there are several versions for its name. One version claims it is named for Hudson's Bay trapper Alexander McLeod's favorite horse, "Siskiyou", a bob-tail. McLeod led the first Hudson's Bay brigade into Shasta...

About 10 Mt. Shasta climbers suffered minor to major injuries, while seven people had to be rescued from the mountain's treacherous upper slopes, which have been made even more dangerous due to ice peeling off the rocks and cliffs, Siskiyou County sheriff's officials and avalanche experts said Monday.

It's a one-two punch that Siskiyou County's economy -- already struggling with one of the highest unemployment rates in the state -- can't absorb. Coca-Cola North America announced in April it would close its water bottling plant in Mount Shasta this year. The announcement came a month after Mercy Mount Shasta said it was

A former Mount Shasta city councilwoman will have to serve 210 days in the Siskiyou County jail on charges she sold pot to an undercover deputy posing as a high school student.

Jon Lopey, a retired assistant chief with the California Highway Patrol, faces a run-off election beating out three other veteran lawmen Tuesday night for the Siskiyou County sheriff post.

From AlterNet: After a successful six-year campaign to prevent Nestle Waters from building a bottling plant in nearby McCloud, the town of Mt. Shasta, a mountain hamlet of fewer than 3000 residents in California's far-northern Siskiyou County, is taking up...

YREKA -- An autopsy performed on the body of a woman found last week in a remote area of Siskiyou County determined that she died of intracranial hemorrhage as the result of a homicidal assault, a spokeswoman for the Siskiyou County sheriff's office said Thursday.

YREKA — An autopsy performed on the body of a woman found last week in a remote area of Siskiyou County determined that she died of intracranial hemorrhage as the result of a homicidal assault, a spokeswoman for the Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office said Thursday.

The Mt. Shasta Herald reports on the Siskiyou County Board of Supervisors' decision, which aims to split the library card. Following a lengthy discussion, the board voted to direct McDermott to budget a half-year of library operating costs for the...

YREKA — A 62-year-old Colorado man was killed last week following an explosion in a western Siskiyou County gold mine, a spokeswoman for the Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office said today.

YREKA — A Siskiyou County jail inmate who was found in his cell on May 23 with a knotted sheet around his neck and hanging from a mirror mount on his wall died Tuesday at a Redding hospital, a spokeswoman with the Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office said today.

YREKA — A Siskiyou County man arrested last week on suspicion of murdering a 24-year-old Yreka woman pleaded not guilty at his arraignment Tuesday in Siskiyou County Superior Court.

Interesting fax on my desk this morning from the Siskiyou County Republican Central Committee, which last week voted -- unanimously -- to oppose PG&E's Proposition 16. Russ Porterfield explains why: I find it unusual that I am actually siding with...

A proposal to close Siskiyou County’s library system altogether to save $712,000 is hardly surprising, in the circumstances, but it’s one the county would come to regret.

Siskiyou County may close its libraries to plug its budget hole. Should Redding consider something similar before we lay off any more police? Has the city council really exhausted the opportunities for cuts elsewhere in city government? The library is...

A Siskiyou County man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a 24-year-old Yreka woman who has been missing since mid-April.

A Siskiyou County man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a 24-year-old Yreka woman who has been missing since mid-April.

Trying to close a $3.7 million budget gap, Siskiyou County’s top administrator has proposed closing the county library and all its branches.

HAPPY CAMP — The remains of an pilot who crashed his single-engine airplane Saturday in steep and rugged terrain near here were found today, a spokeswoman for the Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office said.

A weekend fire destroyed a mobile home in Seiad Valley in Siskiyou County, a spokeswoman with the Siskiyou County Sheriff's Office said today.

YREKA - A Siskiyou County jail inmate is on life support at Shasta Regional Medical Center in Redding today after he apparently tried to commit suicide on Sunday afternoon.

Searchers found an aircraft engine and personal items Sunday but didn’t find the pilot of a single-engine plane that crashed Saturday near Happy Camp in Siskiyou County.

A ground crew plans to resume its search this morning for a pilot and his single-engine plane that crashed Saturday afternoon near Happy Camp in Siskiyou County.

A ground crew plans to resume its search Sunday morning for a pilot and his single-engine plane that crashed Saturday afternoon near Happy Camp in Siskiyou County.

The Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office is looking for information about the whereabouts of a 24-year old Yreka woman whose mother said has been missing for more than a month.

Below is a Siskiyou County Sheriff's Department press release on the 1991 unsolved murder of 77-year-old Maye Elma Mechling, who was found shot dead in her McKinney Creek home.

A Siskiyou County jury on Monday found a Dunsmuir man guilty of torturing a Weed woman last year for five days.

Living on land 75 feet from her neighbor’s rock-crushing operation near the base of Black Butte in Siskiyou County, Amy Vibrans said she is tired of the noise and dust.

A Weed family was rescued Monday after the vehicle they were in got stranded in the snow during a Mother’s Day outing near the Shasta-Siskiyou county line.

A Weed family was rescued this morning after their vehicle got stranded in the snow during a Mother’s Day outing near the Shasta-Siskiyou county line.

Siskiyou County sheriff’s officials are investigating whether a popular outdoor writer from Weed was part of a larger drug operation, an official said Thursday.