Mendocino County News

Heavy rain and a wet roadway may have been a factor in a three-vehicle accident near the Mendocino county line Friday afternoon that took the life of a 19-year-old Humboldt State University student, the California Highway Patrol reported.

The Mendocino County Coroner's Office has released the name of a 49-year-old Lakeport man who died in a crash on Highway 20 near the Potter Valley road about 6:50 a.m. Wednesday.

Published: Friday, November 20, 2009 at 9:22 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, November 20, 2009 at 9:22 a.m. An Mendocino coast resident was badly injured when she drove a pickup truck off Highway 128 and into a redwood tree west of Philo on Thursday afternoon, trapping her legs in the crumpled front end of the vehicle, authorities said.

Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Nov. 20--The Mendocino County Planning Commission voted 4-3 Thursday to deny a cell tower east of Ukiah until further findings by the Planning Department are presented next month.

When you're planning a trip to Mendocino County, your first thought might not be of visiting a museum.

A task force that will propose plans for marine reserves off California's northernmost coast is hearing passionate testimony from tribe members and fisherman.

Editor's note: This is the first in a series of a two-part discussion with longtime Mendocino County resident and retired Judge Timothy O'Brien, appointed to the bench in 1971, serving in the Superior Court until 1985.

Published: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 8:04 a.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 8:04 a.m. Highway patrol officers in Mendocino County were investigating a fatal crash on Highway 20 Wednesday morning.

If you're going to be in the Willits neighborhood during the year-end holidays at the end of the year, the Harrah Senior Center has some special treats for you.

When the Mendocino County Planning Commission meets this week it will hear requests to build and raise communications towers and several requests for minor subdivisions in Redwood Valley and on the coast.

Part of the responsibility of living in a democracy is the willingness to ask questions of our elected officials, especially if we are concerned with the direction we are proceeding in and the facts surrounding the decisions leading to that course of action are obscure.

Scharffenberger Brut has been my house California sparkling wine since the winery was founded in 1981.

Published: Saturday, November 14, 2009 at 3:24 p.m. Last Modified: Saturday, November 14, 2009 at 3:24 p.m. A 22-year-old woman fell to her death from atop the Mendocino Headlands early Saturday, apparently after slipping into a crevice and dropping up to 75 feet to the beach below.

With help from new kiosks installed at the Mendocino County jail, staff no longer have to put an inmate's money in an envelope and count it two or three times.

The Agwood Mill & Lumber Company, north of Ukiah, is on track to get a $2 million loan from the county after the proposal gained unanimous support from the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors Tuesday.

The man who allegedly brandished a gun and threatened a whole family after being stabbed in the chest during an Oct.

It's no surprise when voters in the college town of Davis, California, say no to a housing development.

Mendocino County's unemployment rate dropped again in September to 10.1 percent, down from 10.5 percent in August.

A 24-year-old Ukiah man stabbed Tuesday by the railroad tracks near Gobbi Street remained in critical condition and in intensive care at a Sonoma County hospital Thursday.

Watch the fog roll into the Mendocino Headlands from your own balcony at JD House.