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A Cheap Broad’s Travel Tips: Money, Honey, That’s What I Want

In the midst of the fun part of planning your dream vacation, there are a few less fun but vital chores to tend to before you leave home concerning money. Not the do-I-have-enough part – I’m assuming you’ve taken care… Continue Reading

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Fair Offers Christmas Presents That Make a Difference

For some people, the thought of giving cheap junk made by exploited workers in some overseas sweatshop as a Christmas gift is not appetizing. But if you shop the big-box stores, cheap junk made by exploited workers in some overseas… Continue Reading

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New Community Radio Stations On The Way

Two new community radio stations are coming to the Shasta County airwaves. A station operated by Acorn Community Enterprises of Round Mountain is scheduled to start broadcasting during the first quarter of 2011. Meanwhile, Redding-based nonprofit organization People of Progress is… Continue Reading

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Investigators Hope Finding Car Will Lead To Finding Teen

Law enforcement officials have their first significant piece of evidence in the case of missing Redding teenager Jean Marie Berlinghoff. The 1987 four-door Oldsmobile that Jean and her uncle Charles Berlinghoff were believed to be driving was found along Sims Road south of Dunsmuir on Friday afternoon.

The 15-year-old Enterprise High School sophomore disappeared … Continue Reading

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Young Professionals Spark Redding’s Cultural Catalyst

Nihilism: A total rejection of established laws and institutions; Anarchy or other revolutionary activity. If you had stumbled into the Cascade on the first Wednesday this month, you might have thought nihilists had taken control of the theater. Bearded men… Continue Reading

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Survey Finds Big Bicycle Ridership Increase

Redding bicycle ridership increased during this year’s Shasta County Health & Human Services Agency bike count. The one-day surveillance of 22 intersections from 7 to 8:30 a.m. and again from 4 to 6 p.m. detected 781 bicycle riders – an… Continue Reading

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Search For Teen Continues Despite Lack of Amber Alert

The father of missing Redding teenager Jean Marie Berlinghoff said he considers his daughter to be in grave danger despite the fact that an Amber Alert wasn’t issued after her disappearance; the case didn’t meet the criteria of the system, officials said. … Continue Reading

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What About That Marijuana Smell?

"Ooh, that smell. Can’t you smell that smell?" ~ Lynyrd Skynyrd For the Southern rock group’s famous tune, it was the "smell of death." But in more and more north state neighborhoods, "that smell" is marijuana plants in the fall.… Continue Reading

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Photographic Alchemy: Project Turns Insecurites into ‘Self-Worth’

Inadequate. Fat. Whore. Kike. These seemingly unrelated, but powerful words are branded on the foreheads, arms, legs and torsos of artist Tommy Corey’s photography subjects. The words are as striking as the hauntingly personal portraits. But they are related in… Continue Reading