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Prominent citizens, including the county's own treasurer-tax collector, urged the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors to rescind the county's master tax sharing agreement following a bruising fight over annexation of county land.
The City Council voted Aug. 26 to apply for a state grant to extend the city's water system to the Little Lake Mobile Home Park. The roughly 38 residents now depend on water trucked in by the state.
A new fiscal sustainability committee, a state-funded water line to a mobile home park, and a Flock camera update from the police chief.
A 22-year-old Army veteran is paralyzed from the chest down after the car he was driving went off Highway 20 and down a steep embankment near mile marker 24.3 on Saturday afternoon, Aug. 22.
California would overhaul how it manages — and logs — its 14 demonstration state forests, including Mendocino County's Jackson Demonstration State Forest, under a bill that cleared the Legislature on Aug. 27 and now heads to Gov. Gavin Newsom's desk for approval or veto.
After more than three hours of testimony from a standing-room crowd, the Ukiah Planning Commission voted 4-1 on Aug. 26 to recommend that the City Council deny the pre-zoning that underpins the "Ukiah 2026 Reorganization."
A 60-year-old Redwood Valley woman, who was found trespassing on one of her neighbor's properties, tried to fight subsequent DUI charges by raising a necessity defense — saying she fled from the scene to escape immediate harm.
A town hall on the low-contrast Willits' police cars will be held at the Little Lake Grange on Thursday, August 27, at 7 .p.m.
The Fort Bragg City Council moved nine zoning ordinances through first reading on Aug. 24, a rewrite that reaches into both residential neighborhoods and the city's commercial districts.
