Over 2,300 fall run Chinook salmon, the largest number of fish counted at the Van Arsdale Fisheries Station on the Eel River below Cape Horn Dam since the Department of Fish and Game (DFG) began…
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It was raining when we left Fort Bragg to head over to the Grandparent's house in Albion. The relatives. The food. The hot hot upstairs, windows wide open to the rain. Santa left something in…
The cabin was clearly occupied. Smoke snaked from the double-walled, galvanized, chimney pipe. A lamp burned, illuminating the solarium. The German Shepherd pup bounded like a deer and wagged his tail, revealing nuts that had…
Pot growers and sheriff deputies broke bread together in Ukiah recently at an unprecedented event: a holiday party hosted by Julia Carrera, one of Mendocino County's medical marijuana inspectors. A grower in a beanie and…
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. So here we are once again — the holiday season and the end of yet another year just around the corner. What…
It appears that the only way to get away from bad Christmas music is to take refuge in an ice fishing house in the middle of Lake Mille Lacs with a pair of ear plugs…
Sacramento doesn't have a noon whistle. Instead, they blow a siren for a full minute on the last Friday of the month. It's not the same thing at all. Probably very early in the industrial…