LOCAL AUTHOR PEG KINGMAN’S LATEST NOVEL is in the offing, and should be out later this year. It’s the third and final installment in her contract with W.W.Norton for a trilogy set in the 19th…
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New satellite images show the true extent of the record drought hitting California, as the state declares an emergency and seeks federal aid.
CALIFORNIA DROUGHT EMERGENCY MADE OFFICIAL (01-17) 10:01 PST San Francisco — Governor Jerry Brown on Friday officially declared a drought emergency in California, asking residents to voluntarily reduce their water use by 20 percent and…
DEBBIE CLARK, long-time publisher of the Willits News, has announced she is retiring, one more sign that the chain-owned Mendo papers, all of them overseen out of Chico, will soon be down to even more…
WILL PARRISH, perhaps best known as a writer with the AVA, will next appear in court on Monday, January 27th, where he faces a wild array of misdemeanor charges — 17 of them — for…
TINFOIL HAT ALERT, ALBION! Verizon is asking the County's Planning Commission for permission to erect "a 105-foot monopole supporting 12 panel antennas, including two GPS antennas" one mile south of Albion on property owned by…
NO RAIN in the forecast for at least the next two weeks as CalFire, Monday, announced an “uncommon fire weather watch” from Monday night to Tuesday morning as the weather service warns of a potentially…
WE IMMEDIATELY THOUGHT of the Willits Bypass when reading the recent news that New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s staff created a bottleneck on the George Washington Bridge for several days on the false pretense that…
ABOUT AN HOUR of rain fell on Mendocino County Saturday morning, just enough to sweeten the air and whet our thirst for more, much more. If we got a quarter inch we'd be surprised. By…