Before the gallows In the years following the Gold Rush, Shasta County was a rough and rapidly changing corner of California. Established on February 18, 1850, the county quickly attracted miners, merchants, adventurers, and drifters seeking their fortunes in the… Continue Reading
When I bought my 1938 house in 2017, I’d fallen in love with my house by day, never thinking to look up and search for street lights. Had I looked, I would have noticed the absence of street lights. Inexplicably… Continue Reading
There is a gap in weather monitoring data for the northern end of the Central Valley in California and Shasta College is going to help fill that data gap. Shasta College is hosting a weather balloon launch site as part… Continue Reading
Shasta County, this post is for you.
I am quiet by nature and prefer to avoid confrontation. And yet …
I find myself in a moment when it is important to speak up. I am in my 12th and final year of service on the Shasta County Board of Education. Continue Reading
When the California and Oregon Railroad bypassed the old mining town of Shasta, its merchants faced a hard choice: remain with the community where they had built their names or gamble on an uncertain settlement rising on the Sacramento River… Continue Reading
Shasta Coalition, No Kings and Redding Resistance call on Shasta County residents to show up, speak out and vote Shasta Coalition, No Kings and Redding Resistance will hold a No Kings Get Out The Vote Rally on Saturday, October 17,… Continue Reading
On the human stress-o-meter scale, driving a car that’s nearly out of gas in pitch-black darkness on a narrow, curvy, country road scores right up there with the stress of sleeping through an alarm when you’re supposed to catch a… Continue Reading
Friday morning, the Shasta County District Attorney’s Office filed charges against 47-year-old Dustin Alan Mingarelli in connection with a hit-and-run incident that occurred on Sunday, September 27, 2026, after the Palo Cedro Rodeo, in which Mingarelli drove his vehicle at… Continue Reading
The City of Sutherlin is asking the public for information regarding the theft of a historic steam whistle that was cut from the city’s 1921 Cooke Oil-Fired Steam Locomotive on September 15, 2026. An investigation into the theft lead officers… Continue Reading
Per state and federal statute, ballot materials from the November 5, 2024, General Election were required to be destroyed on September 5, 2026, or as soon as reasonably practicable thereafter. Shasta County election materials subject to this requirement remain unprocessed… Continue Reading
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