Shasta County News

Mention the city's name to those who had traveled through Redding in the old days and the first comments you would receive would be someone's recollection of being there in summer and how hot the temperatures were.

Animals of all shapes and sizes will be appearing each week at the Cottonwood Community Library.

A 61-year-old Redding man is recovering after spending four days alone in the rugged Northern California wilderness.

Northern California residents say they are in the fight of their life. The Transmission Agency of Northern California's proposal to build more than 600 miles of high-voltage transmission lines has residents fearing the worst: reduced property values, high power rates, interference with agriculture operations and negative impacts to the environment ...

She's a pioneer, a lawyer and an innovator. As of Sunday, she's retired. Lt. Mary Rennie, commander of the California Highway Patrol's Tracy-area office for the past 31 2 years, is retiring from police work after more than three decades - making her second in seniority among women to Assistant Commissioner Ramona Prieto.

"I saw the Jackson 5 in the early '70s at Hughes Stadium. It was a day concert. It was one of the concerts that everybody in Sacramento either wanted to go to, or went to.

Eating disorder classes New Directions to Hope, a counseling center with offices in Shasta and Tehama County announces a new 10-week therapeutic group on eating disorders starting June 30 at the Redding office, 1880 Shasta St.

Comments REDDING, Calif. Tim Amen pushes open the front door of the Shasta County jailhouse and steps into the sunshine, having served about half of his 48-hour sentence for drunken driving.

Tehama County's unemployment rate ticked down for the second straight month in May, bucking a state trend that saw California's unemployment rate climb to a record high of 11.5 percent.

An unidentified body surfaced Thursday north of the Gilman Road-McCloud River bridge and is being analyzed by the Shasta County Coroner's Office.

Viral meningitis has spread to 41 north state residents, a savannah sparrow has tested positive for West Nile Virus and one resident has been diagnosed with E. coli in Shasta County.

The man accused of shooting a 9-year-old girl and her father in Arivaca on May 30 is now being investigated in a home invasion and burglary in the area of Redding, Calif., last week.

Six days after they allegedly killed a 9-year-old girl and her father in a home-invasion robbery in Arizona, Shawna Forde and Jason Eugene Bush checked into a motel in Cottonwood, Calif., under their own names.

Shasta County probation officials are recommending a 5-year, 4-month prison sentence for the ex-CEO of the Haven Humane Society after he was convicted last month of embezzling about $1,400 from the nonprofit group.

In December, Shawna Forde's estranged husband was shot three times in his Everett home by a stranger.

MOUNT SHASTA, Calif., - A 33-year-old Dunsmuir man was arrested Wednesday afternoon on a warrant charging him with rape, kidnapping, assault, attempted murder and other crimes, two weeks after a seriously injured woman was rescued from his camp along the Sacramento River.

A woman whose body was found floating in a drainage canal in 1983 has been identified, Sacramento police said.

Sacramento police detectives are asking the public's help to solve the cold-case murder of a 19-year-old Redding girl whose body was found in 1983 and remained unidentified for more than two decades until recent DNA results determined who she was.

Submitted by SHNS on Tue, 06/09/2009 - 15:07. Game wardens across California are finding that hard economic times can be deadly for animals.

A Redding man is facing more than 20 years in prison for raping a drugged, unconscious woman whom he had stalked for more than a year.