Voting determines our community’s future. Come out Oct. 17 to encourage early voting.

Speeches, races, a play joined familiar fair activities such as a livestock procession, pie judging and a nearly 18-inch apple.

The trial has been extended, but the planned pipeline was determined to be too expensive for a short-term pilot project.

Working together, we can ensure that our water infrastructure stays in local public hands.

A beautiful November sunset over Redwood Valley.

The cannabis is amazing this year. Its later planting date means more space for veggies and cover crops.

2-day sale at the Ukiah campus gardens includes lettuce varieties, 7 grapes varieties, and succulent bowls.

The deadline to fix the issue is now 2029, and the state nearly doubled its hauling budget.

Sweet Mac Daddy is loyal, calm and a very good boy. He could be your best pal.

The Willits Chamber of Commerce's free festival runs from Wood to Humboldt streets with live music, classic cars and a pumpkin pie-eating contest.

A council member puts the bus stop on a committee agenda, and the transit board's chair says she'll raise it Wednesday.

Council votes 4-1 to take the full planned increase after scaling it back last year.

Your weekly guide to upcoming music events in Mendocino County.

“Deep Valley: People, Places, Memory” features the greater Ukiah Valley, its cultural history and residents.

Prop 44 is a dangerous attack on rural healthcare.

The work is due this week or next, the city manager said Monday. The city promised a news release when it had a date.

The evening includes music and the exhibit `People & Places: Works by Cottie Morrison and Janet Rosen’ as well as an in-person creative program with Janet Rosen.

Oscar's Place had to put sick and healthy donkeys on the same 32-hour trailer. No longer.

The Fort Bragg Groundfish Conservation Trust rents its share of the West Coast catch to Noyo Harbor fishermen first, and at a discount.

Bourassa and Hart talked about the county budget and data centers while Willits Unified trustees disagreed over the district's finances.

Two UC Berkeley-led studies suggest the Hopland bacteria does better than Central Valley strains in cold winters.

County planners and consultants will present findings and draft strategies from Sept. 29 to Oct. 5.

The Mendocino Coast Health Care District expects a building permit by the end of the year.

City Council candidates tackle how to engage and serve Latino and older residents.

Don’t water lawns, take short showers—drinking water service continues as crews repair line.

Emergency repairs on eroding bluff road will block vehicles for three weeks.

The caller told a dispatcher a woman had been killed with a knife, the sheriff's office says.

The puzzle is how to strike a balance between dependence on tourism and its impacts on jobs, housing and essential services.

A teacher by training, she was part of a foundational Little River family.

Two are city taxes, one pays for ambulances on the south coast, and two are bonds from districts based in neighboring counties.

Half a century after Gov. Jerry Brown signed it, the law still decides what gets built, and what gets launched.

John Strangio, Matt Froneberger and Robert Bazzani agreed on most things but split on annexation and license-plate cameras.

Ariana Arnold is a member of the Scotts Valley Band of Pomo Indians.

Candidates offer ideas to increase economic diversity, job creation, energy independence and more.

Alerted by a mussel detection dog, a June boat stop at Lake Sonoma turned up lab signs of golden mussels.

The Flynn Creek Circus runs until Sept. 27, with over 20 performances in a clearing near Willits.

This year the only in-person meetings are in Washington state. Public comments are due Oct. 19.

Newsom’s AB 2494 veto mires us in the ‘40s. We need restoration, not timber production.

Mellow Hulk knows how to dance and settle in as a happy, easygoing companion.

From infrastructure and public safety to housing, Fort Bragg candidates detail the top focus areas where they aim to make an immediate four-year impact.

Your weekly guide to upcoming music events in Mendocino County.

Caltrans and Department of Water Resources will stage equipment ahead of predicted storms.

What is forecast to be the strongest El Niño on record tilts the whole North Coast toward a wet winter. What that means on the ground is not so easy to say.

The Army Corps paused the Coyote Valley Dam study last October for lack of federal money. The bill adds none.

Eight dogs who made it to the finals herded sheep through a course against a clock.

The five-part series starts Monday, Sept, 21 and runs each weekday. Saturday will wrap up with every candidate’s answers to all five questions.

Crews will now patrol the burn area for hot spots and smoke.

Mendocino County backed AB 2494. A rural counties group asked for the veto.