With the Carr Fire nearing containment, the thousands of people affected by the historic blaze are returning home, assessing the damage and deciding when and how to rebuild or repair. And hot on their heels are the scammers, looters, quick-buck… Continue Reading
When you put a bunch of beer makers together and present them with a challenge, it’s a given they’re going to brew up a solution. The challenge at hand: find a way to combine their brewing skills to create something… Continue Reading
Pets are family too, and that fact is on dramatic and heartwarming display at Haven Humane’s temporary pet evacuation center at the Shasta Gateway mall in Anderson. Under the direction of Cyanna Howden, Haven Humane’s chief medical officer, a cluster… Continue Reading
Scorching temperatures, swirling winds, bone-dry vegetation and sparks from a defective trailer tire combined Monday to ignite a wildfire on the west side of Whiskeytown Lake that elevated to inferno mode Wednesday night and continued Thursday to endanger residents in… Continue Reading
California Street as we’ve come to know it will hardly be recognizable in a few years. In fact, much of downtown Redding will be sporting a new look. Gone will be the crumbling two-level parking structure on California Street and… Continue Reading
Residents of the neighborhoods surrounding crime-infested South City Park met on Tuesday to consider their options now that the city has decided to put a fence around the park and make its few amenities available on a reservation-only basis. Organized… Continue Reading
Nothing comes easy, or quick, on Redding’s hazy path to recreational pot sales. The latest setback, of sorts, came last week when City Manager Barry Tippin postponed announcing the first applicants accepted for tentative approval to begin operating retail marijuana… Continue Reading
Despite a litany of complaints about a chronic lack of jail space and a spirited challenge from a retired sergeant, voters on Tuesday returned Shasta County Sheriff Tom Bosenko to another four years in office. Unofficial results from the Shasta… Continue Reading
“If we do nothing, then they win,” said former Redding Mayor Rick Bosetti of the criminal element that has taken up residence at South City Park. “And there’s no reason for them to win.” Rarely one to sugarcoat his feelings,… Continue Reading
Bethel Church is known as a lot of things lately—a megachurch that has put Redding on the map as much as the Sundial Bridge has; a lightning rod for promoting its official views of homosexuality as a conscience-searing affront to… Continue Reading
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