Valentine's Day is fast approaching and tickets to the Record Searchlight's fifth annual Eat Dessert First! event make a great early Valentine's Day gift.

Theodor Seuss Geisel, known far and wide as Dr. Seuss, is beloved for children’s classics like “Green Eggs and Ham” and “The Cat in the Hat,” but an exhibit opening Saturday at Turtle Bay Exploration Park aims to expose visitors to other facets of the good doctor’s 65-year career.

It was a really bad flood and happened at a really bad time - right in the middle of the construction of Shasta Dam. Remains of the concrete building on the left still stands at Turtle Bay. It was the...

Bats! Subjects of myth and legend. Also, interesting critters that occupy an essential and beneficial niche of our ecosystem. Turtle Bay Museum has this interesting Bat exhibit until Sunday. Flap your mammal wings and get in there before it’s gone.

Turtle Bay Café will close after business Jan. 15 to make room for the park's full-service Sheraton hotel.

Sneetches, Whos, Grinches and Green Eggs and Ham are expected to arrive in Redding later this month.

This is a great neighborhood for the money. Nearby to all the Downtown Redding fun, and also Turtle Bay School. Arboretum, River Trail, Museum, Sundial Bridge, Caldwe

Turtle Bay Exploration Park's plan to build a hotel on its campus isn't a public works project subject to prevailing wage requirements, the state Department of Industrial Relations ruled this week.

Positioned in downtown Redding and encircled by the Sacramento River, the Sundial Bridge, and the Turtle Bay Exploration Park stands a historic facility that has been known to host conventions, exhibits, and trade shows for years. It recently underwent a name change from Redding Convention Center to Redding’s Civic Center

The six-story building on the left is what it looked like when it was built in 1938. The photo was taken in 1940 during a flood. Portions of it still stand today between Turtle Bay and the convention center. When...

The eagles were supposed to go live today.

Upcoming holiday events include Cottonwood Library's Christmas Home Tour, Shasta College's holiday plant sale and Turtle Bay Exploration Park's wreath-making class.

PARIS PARK A fifty-five plus, gated community for the Active Adult in Redding, CA   Community Description: A gated active adult community consisting of mostly 2 bedroom/2bathroom single family homes between 1400sqft – 1650sqft on quarter acre lots or smaller. A few of the floor plans offe

Strapped my video camera to a Segway and rolled down the River Trail to the Sundial Bridge, and around Turtle Bay Museum. It was my first time on a Segway. They are as fun as they look, and remarkably easy to learn and ride. If you haven’t tried this yet, you owe yours

The Kutras Tract is adjacent to the Sacramento River. It’s a lovely area with big trees and shady streets. This home is sited directly on Park Marina, which is a somewhat b

Even with the rain of the past few days, the ornamental grasses in the garden are lovely this time of year - stately and painted in warm, light catching hues. The McConnell Arboretum & Botanical Gardens at Turtle Bay in Redding is hosting a class on the planting and care of ornamental grasses in the [...]

On Saturday, October 1st, Healthy Shasta announced the three Action Heroes selected for 2011 at Healthy Shasta’s annual Walk This Way at Turtle Bay event. Each Action Hero is being honored for their efforts in making healthy eating and physical activity choices easier for others. The 2011 Action Heroes are: Friends of the

This fall, Turtle Bay Exploration Park seeks to dispel the myths and misconceptions surrounding bats in its "Masters of the Night: the True Story of Bats" exhibit on display now through Jan. 8

Catalyst-Redding Young Professionals announces its upcoming Indie Element, an Oktoberfest-themed birthday bash to be held outdoors at Turtle Bay Exploration Park’s Paul Bunyan’s Forest Camp, Wednesday, October 5 from 7-10 pm. Celebrate The Indie Element’s first birthday with an all-out crescendo of independent culture

Healthy Shasta is proud to present the 5th Annual Walk This Way at Turtle Bay celebration! Choose healthy and join us Saturday, October 1, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Turtle Bay Exploration Park for this fantastic FREE family event. Once again this year’s festivities include healthy cooking demonstrations, health screenings,

In 1911: The last of the log drive came into the Benton boom. It started in the waters of the Pit River 46 days ago, requiring a few more days to reach here than previous drives. There are 3 million feet of timber now in Turtle Bay, and the cutting was to begin at once.

When Turtle Bay Exploration Park leaders went looking for a partner to develop and operate a hotel next to the Redding museum, they found an eager partner in San Diego-based Azul Hospitality Group. Azul, which runs destination resorts and hotels, simply couldn’t pass up the location at what Azul President and CEO Richard

Current trends in manufacturing, including which products are making a comeback in the United States and why, will be among the topics discussed during an economic summit Sept. 29 at Turtle Bay Exploration Park.

A trio of labor unions claims the hotel Turtle Bay Exploration Park plans to build on its campus is a public works job subject to prevailing wage.

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Families are invited to enter a new KIXE family contest entitled, “Creating Healthy Habits.” Participants may submit their entries, in either an essay style or in a DVD format, showing how their family creates healthy habits. These habits can involve health and nutrition, along with best parenting practices, such as rea

Daniel Schneider, 8 (left), and his 10-year-old brother Ben build a dam at a water feature Wednesday in the Paul Bunyan Forest Camp at Turtle Bay Exploration Park.

This one isn’t new, but Fannie just dropped the price, so it has gained some attention. It’s an 868 sqft 2/1 built in 1947. We really like Coronado Street, a quiet, tree lined neighborhood that spill

A Redding man who was bitten by a rattlesnake at Turtle Bay Exploration Park's arboretum Monday evening is now in Shasta Regional Medical Center's Progressive Care Unit.

Elizabeth Zheng of Redding becomes friends with two lorikeets in the Turtle Bay Exploration Park aviary Wednesday during Indie Element, a monthly outdoors gathering at the park’s Paul Bunyan Forest Camp. Indie Element is a 21-and-over event that features music and after-hours entry to the Parrot Playhouse aviary.

A Redding man who was bitten by a rattlesnake at Turtle Bay Exploration Park's arboretum is now in the intensive care unit at Shasta Regional Medical Center.

A 35-year-old male was bitten by a rattlesnake this evening at Turtle Bay Exploration Park's arboretum, dispatchers said.

Catalyst-Redding Young Professionals announces its July Indie Element event will be held outdoors at the Turtle Bay Exploration Park on Wednesday, July 6, from 7-10 p.m. Channel your inner child at this 21+ only event, featuring music and a special after-hours entrance into the Parrot Playhouse, Turtle Bay’s new lorikeet

Turtle Bay Exploration Park seeks volunteers to help with animal care, in the gardens, with special events and in the gift store.

Perhaps one of the two Turtle Bay bald eaglets knew why about 50 people gathered this morning near its nest.

The two eaglets that hatched in a blustery March storm near the Turtle Bay Exploration Park are getting ready to spread their still-wet wings.

School is just about out for the year, which means it’s time to figure out ways to keep Junior and Missy busy for the summer. You know, idle hands … . Might I suggest the Shasta County Office of Education’s vast array of summer camps at Whiskeytown Environmental School, Schreder Planetarium, Turtle Bay Exploration Par

Seeing stomachs pumped and toes amputated no longer phases most students of Shasta, Foothill and Enterprise high schools' Career Technical Education: Medical Careers program.

Bucking a trend seen at some of other north state charity events, Turtle Bay Exploration Park's 2011 auction raised more than $140,000 — a record.

Is Mike Warren channeling his inner 7-year-old with juvenile exhibits at Turtle Bay Exploration like last year's "The Scoop on Poop" and "Grossology: The (impolite) science of the human body," now running through summer?

Why is Turtle Bay so 'gross' these days?

Snot. Boogers. Farts. Burps. Gas. Poop. Zits... Excuuuuuse me? No apology necessary. It's a special day at your local museum where topics once considered disgusting and distasteful are embraced as educational and thought-provoking learning opportunities. Plus, animated characters like Stinky, Burp Man, Nose-Picker ...

William M. Beaty, a giant in the north state timber industry for more than a half-century and a past president and director emeritus of the Turtle Bay Museum and Arboretum, died April 21 at Willow Springs Alzheimer's Special Care Center in Redding. He was 94.

Turtle Bay Exploration Park failed to make the cut for a $7 million state grant for museum expansion.

What: Presentation by photographer Rick Braveheart, Whiskeytown National Recreation Area's current artist-in-residence When: Thursday (April 28), 6 p.m. Where: Turtle Bay Visitor Center Theater Cost: Free to the public Turtle Bay Exploration Park, in conjunction with Whiskeytown National Recreation Area, will host a free pu

I have to say there was still what looked to be a fine crowd today at the Redding Whole Earth and Watershed Festival! held in the City Hall Sculptural Park!  I have attended this before, but this year it was a really BIG event!  How won

Anything remotely gross about the human body, from boogers to belches, is fair game with Turtle Bay’s latest exhibit.

Upcoming north state garden events include a plant sale, seed exchange and flower show.

In another cost-cutting move, Turtle Bay Exploration Park has eliminated its chief financial officer position.

Amid swirling storm winds this morning the second eaglet in the Turtle Bay bald eagle nest broke from its shell.