For two years Mendocino County District Attorney David Eyster has refused to publicly address his controversial practice of using public criminal asset forfeiture funds to pay for a series of annual year end staff dinners…
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In a sprawling report critical of how Mendocino County manages its finances, the California State Auditor accuses District Attorney David Eyster of wrongly using public funds to host annual steakhouse dinners. It specifically cited DA…
A hastily launched online petition drive is triggering a community outcry over a suggested possibility that iconic Chinese Pistache trees along School Street may fall as part of a larger downtown improvement project to overhaul…
Sister Jane Kelly, an iconic Catholic nun who served the Ukiah Valley for four decades, spent her final years in “pain and prayer,” recalls a fellow member of the Sisters of the Presentation religious order…
A heated environmental controversy over protecting Spotted Owl habitat in dwindling old growth forests was raging on the North Coast when the late Mendocino County Supervisor Jim Eddie suggested a sleep over in a family…
Mendocino Superior Court Judge Ann Moorman rejected a bid for a change of venue by attorneys for the County of Mendocino, who argued Friday that intense local news coverage of Auditor Chamise Cubbison’s contentious civil…
Sister Jane Kelly, an iconic Catholic nun who forged the creation of Ukiah’s Plowshares center for the homeless and helped foster expanded social justice ministries in Mendocino County, has died at age 95. Sister Jane’s…
In a stinging rebuke to the County of Mendocino, lawyers for Auditor Chamise Cubbison on Tuesday attacked a change of venue motion as a “waste of still more taxpayer dollars on an untimely, legally defective,…
The Palace Hotel, the iconic downtown Ukiah landmark focus of new clean up and stabilization efforts, is one of five projects featured in the Spring edition of ‘Preservation,’ the quarterly magazine of the National Trust…