When it comes to public safety in Redding, there are two options: lower expectations or raise revenues. Both the City Council and the city manager support the latter option, and using proceeds from a sales-tax hike to make it happen.… Continue Reading
For the past two years, the Redding Veterans Resource Center has quietly been using its Park Marina House to help homeless veterans get back on their feet. On Wednesday, the center decided to make a little noise. To start with,… Continue Reading
Redding officials have been asking residents how they feel about public safety, and the responses shouldn’t come as a big surprise: people are tired of getting ripped off and they want to see more cops on the job. City Manager… Continue Reading
While a wrecking ball claimed one beloved Redding restaurant last week, another much-loved eatery made a return to downtown. Gone except for the memories (and its iconic neon sign that the Shasta Historical Society is hoping to secure for posterity)… Continue Reading
Telling her supporters that she wants her children to have the “magical experience of growing up in Redding” that she enjoyed, business co-owner Erin Resner formally launched her City Council campaign at a noon rally on Friday in the Cascade… Continue Reading
Sometimes it really does help to know a guy. After 32 years on the job as a maintenance supervisor at Benton Airpark, Glen Dennis has gotten to know plenty of guys (and gals), and those relationships came in handy when… Continue Reading
Kaitlyn Prader of Redding, a self-professed introvert, was motivated enough to overcome her shyness to join more than 700 others on Sunday for the second Redding Women’s March. “What doesn’t,” she replied when asked what issues prompted her to leave… Continue Reading
Things continue to look up in downtown Redding, where change is in the air and on the ground. To wit: Escrow has closed on the Americana Lodge, and the Market Street property, which had long served as the poster child… Continue Reading
There’s a new sheriff at A News Café. Or maybe it’s a new news sheriff? Or an old sheriff offering up some new news? To be honest, it’s pretty much anybody’s guess (and no, “fake news” does not count as… Continue Reading
A far-reaching redevelopment plan to replace the California Street parking structure with a four-story, mixed-use housing project received the unanimous support of the Redding City Council on Tuesday. John Truitt, executive director of Viva Downtown, praised the project, telling the… Continue Reading
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