Boonville News

The Willits airport has been a busy place the past few weeks, serving as a command post for firefighters who have been playing a vital role in extinguishing the wildfires that have burned in Mendocino County ...

As the Redwood Empire Fair draws near, teaching the importance of localization is again on the minds of the founders of Born and Raised in Mendocino County.

With a full slate of vendors providing locally grown produce and other farm products, the Willits Farmers Market opens each Thursday at Bud Snider Park from 3 to 6 p.m. from May through October.

The Mendocino Lightning Complex Fire approached full containment Wednesday night as firefighters worked to contain the three remaining active fires.

If 8:15 on a foggy Tuesday morning in Boonville seems like an odd time for a party, it's only because the revelers had a job to do.

I left Ukiah this morning ostensibly to take pictures for my photography class at the college.

With temperatures reaching triple digits inland, crews from numerous agencies remain busy fighting wildland fires around the county and state.

Wearing yellow fireproof Nomex suits over fatigues, more than 200 National Guard troops from all over California headed out of Boonville to work on a live fire line for the first time in recent memory.

Air quality alerts remained in effect for much of Mendocino County Wednesday as measurements taken by the Mendocino County Air Quality Management District ranged from moderate to unhealthy.

Some 250 members of California National Guard arrived in Boonville Monday and stayed at the Mendocino County fairgrounds until 8 this morning when they were sent to the coast for two days of field training, ...

I sit 40 hours a week chained to a desk, captive of The Establishment, errand boy for The Man.

Continued threats remained a possibility for communities and critical infrastructure Saturday as firefighting and military resources are expected to arrive in the next few days to assist in the continuing fight ...

Flags at the state Capitol and at the Anderson Valley Volunteer Fire Department flew at half-staff Thursday in honor of volunteer Firefighter Bob Roland, who died early Thursday morning at Ukiah Valley Medical ...

Firefighters continued to make gains on the Mendocino Lightning Complex fires Monday even as the wind shifted and smoke began to blow back into the Ukiah Valley.

Monday, June 30 @ 9 p.m. Contact official fire hotline 467-6426 for most up to date information .

Salvador Garcia Sanchez, 40, of Clearklake, was arrested at 11:15 p.m. Sunday in the 400 block of North State Street on suspicion of driving under the influence.

David Toaetolu, right, and Chris Naraine of the California Conservation Corps from Ventura County unload a truck of food for firefighters at the Redwood Empire Fairgrounds Tuesday morning.

Cal Fire Battalion Chief Joe Hernandez is in charge of the sector of fires along Orr Springs Road where homes and Montgomery Woods preserve are threatened.

On June 20th, an evening lightning storm ignited more than 100 wildfires in our Mendocino county area.

Those who think of Ukiah and the surrounding area as some kind of Shangri-La are delusional.