Journalist and high school teacher Matt LaFever has filed a lawsuit against the State of California and the Ukiah Police Department, according to court sources familiar with the filing. LaFever was arrested on a misdemeanor…
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The City of Fort Bragg first contracted with the Ukiah Police Department for dispatch services in 2009. Since then, the initial five-year contract has been renewed three times, most recently in July 2024. Officials say…
Every December the Elder Home provides you with an update of the year's activities, and here is the roundup for 2025. We are so grateful that our wonderful community continues to sustain our project and…
In our last report we highlighted the State Auditor’s finding that Mendo had failed to collect taxes due in the amount of at least $30.5 million. We think the number is substantially higher than that…
Marianne Black and her two daughters were just leaving the beach when they heard someone scream for help. They’d been coming to this beach for years, driving over from Ukiah to visit the tide pools…
Supervisor Ted Williams’ innocuous sounding legislative platform proposal — “Proposed Amendments to the 2026 Mendocino County Legislative Platform” — sparked an odd mini-controversy on Tuesday when his colleagues worried that his use of the phrase…
Did we really need an $800,000 audit team of made up of Mr. Grant Parks, California State Auditor, and his overlarge team of green-eyeshaders: Bob Harris, Audit Principal, Grayson Hough, Senior Auditor, Brandy Roberts, Dominik…
The lovely image of the old Gaskill School made me think that readers might want to know more about this survivor, empty now more than 75 years. The school, in an area then called Hermitage,…
Went out during Tuesday night storm. We are working on a basic text post which, if lucky, should be posted soon.