Tag archive for ‘crime’

Focus on Diversity at Shasta College

February is Black History Month, and a big event to mark the month is planned for this week at Shasta College.

The 6 p.m. Wednesday event will include a film, poetry readings, media presentations, music and speeches by students and community leaders.…

Tickets Up, Collisions Down in Redding

Those dreaded red-light cameras at Redding intersections appear to be working.

Redding Police Chief Peter Hansen says in his annual report that the automated cameras are responsible, at least in part, for a 5.49 percent decrease in traffic collisions throughout the city. More…

Be Safe While Holiday Shopping

As the holiday shopping season arrives, the Redding Police Department reminds folks to be extra careful to avoid being victims of theft.

The most important prevention tool is to stay alert to your surroundings and the people around you. It’s easy…

Big Shift at the Cypress Avenue Bridge

This might be a good weekend to avoid the Cypress Avenue bridge in Redding. Work crews will limit the crossing over the Sacramento River to one lane in each direction while they reroute traffic lanes.

By Monday, auto traffic (two lanes in each…

Time to Buy a Bike

This sounds like one of those “Dumb Crook News” items I feature on my Home Front blog, but it happened right here in Redding:

A Redding man went downtown the other day for a court appearance related to his five arrests for driving with…

Violent Crime Up in Redding

No surprise in this economy that the Redding Police Department’s mid-year crime figures would show that crime is on the rise. But the hard times apparently are making people punchy.

Aggravated assaults were up 26 percent in the first half of 2009, as…