Lakeport News

LAKEPORT Retired employees of the city of Lakeport urged the city council Tuesday night to reconsider passing on a 13.81-percent health care insurance surcharge to retirees younger than 65.

LAKEPORT Lakeport authorities called the city's ban on fireworks successful during this year's Fourth of July celebration on Saturday, reporting both increased law enforcement activity and fewer problems with fireworks.

Flames came within 50 feet of homes in the Lakeside Heights subdivision north of Lakeport Wednesday afternoon.

The rutted dirt driveway seemed to go on forever and we shifted uncomfortably on our hay-bale seats as a man on a tractor pulled the makeshift shuttle up the road.

Former Pismo Beach Police Chief Joe Cortez has made it official - he will run for Sheriff of San Luis Obispo County.

The Lake County hit band, SK2, returns to the Willits rodeo grounds stage July 3 at 9 p.m. following the CCPRA rodeo for a night of rocking Frontier Days music.

Clear Lake will a busy place this holiday weekend. In addition to the dozens of bass boats there will be wake board boats plus general recreational vessels.

LAKE COUNTY A personal watercraft burst into flames Thursday afternoon at Lakeside County Park on Soda Bay Road south of Lakeport.

LAKE COUNTY Fire leveled an outbuilding and burned approximately two acres of wildland surrounding a Scotts Valley Road home Tuesday evening.

LAKE COUNTY Kelseyville's leading fire official retires Wednesday. Howard Strickler has been fire chief of the Kelseyville Fire Protection District for 29 years.

LAKE COUNTY They took drink orders instead of license plate numbers and directed patrons to their seats instead of directing traffic.

Bass fishermen at Clear Lake have their choice this weekend -- thick algae in the south end or miles of weeds in the north end.

Turns out there is a cure for the summertime blues. Just the thought of building a duct tape and cardboard boat for a Fourth of July event at the Lakeport Yacht Club stirred joyous conversations, teamwork and creativity among friends and co-workers. First we planned on obtaining a quagga inspection sticker.

LAKE COUNTY Clean, drained and dry. That's what any boat must be before it can launch in Lake County.

The recent public health warnings on the blue-green algae blooms in the south end of the lake could impact tourism and even the fishing on Clear Lake.

LAKEPORT Barbara LaForge's ghost has been wandering Main Street for seven years, since her brutal and tragic daylight murder.

The following is a quote from former United States Secretary of State and Nobel Prize winner Henry Kissinger: "Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy." It is an excerpt from the book "Kiss The Boys Goodbye" subtitled "How the United States Betrayed Its Own Vietnam POWs," written by Monika Jenson Stevenson ...

LAKE COUNTY Lake County Waste Solution's Lakeport transfer station is set to close in October.

LAKEPORT A proposed new T-Mobile cellular tower in Lakeport is drawing scrutiny from city and county officials.

LAKEPORT The Lakeport City Council will send a letter of support for Assembly Bill 715 after voting 3-0 to approve it Tuesday night.