Voter Guide — Fort Bragg City Council 2026
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Congress Members Move to Offset Coming Cuts to Rural Hospital Funding
Since January, Congress members from both parties, have introduced legislation aimed at helping rural hospitals stay open.
Coast Hospital District Weighs Private Bond Placement for $20 Million for Earthquake Retrofit
The board of the Mendocino Coast Hospital District will discuss using private financing to pay for the earthquake retrofit. The regular 5 p.m. meeting will be held at 700 River Drive tonight.
Bracing for El Niño, Mendocino County Finds Clearing Flood-Prone Streams Out of Reach
The county's flood plan will not be finished before the storms arrive, the state has offered no money, and clearing even one flood-prone creek would take up to 18 months of permitting and cost $1 million.
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Code enforcement down to two working field investigators, division tells supervisors
County code enforcement said 2 out of every 5 reports of code violations are not getting addressed due to staffing, and reports of seniors getting forced from their homes due to code violations proved unfounded.
Newsom Said He Vetoed the Demonstration State Forest Bill Because of Science. We Asked What the Money Said.
We reviewed a decade of campaign finance reports after Gov. Newsom vetoed AB 2494. Timber interests gave about $235,000; tribal & environmental backers gave almost nothing.
Mendo Local Weekly Roundup — October 3, 2026
Fort Bragg took the spotlight this week: regulators called for a rewrite of the mill site cleanup plan, the CV Starr solar array remained offline, and a temporary raw water line failed when a coupling broke.
State Toxics Regulators Send Railway's Mill Site Cleanup Plan Back for Revisions
State toxics regulators have told Mendocino Railway to rewrite its cleanup plan for the mill site's contaminated ponds, and to stop calling the fence around the largest pond effective until it is replaced.
Fort Bragg's Newest Solar Array is Billed as Finished. It Has Yet to Make a Watt.
The new solar array at the C.V. Starr Recreation Center in Fort Bragg has yet to produce an power despite being finished months ago. This story asked why.