Shasta County News

A Shasta County man in Chico Thursday to hand out fliers about a dispute the carpenter's union is having with Ross Dress for Less stores, was arrested when police discovered a warrant for him in Florida.

The 2009 marijuana growing season was another record-setting year for the Campaign Against Marijuana Planting eradication efforts, with 4,463,917 plants removed from 41 counties across the state.

School food drive bounty Bidwell School will drop off a huge collection of food at the Salvation Army on Walnut Street today at 9 a.m. Every year the administration, teachers, parents and students of Bidwell do a food drive for the Salvation Army Community Food Bank in either October or November.

A lawsuit pitting Tehama County against Shasta County and the Department of Motor Vehicles could have lasting effects on California counties receive DMV revenue.

REDDING Christmas for the Troops is hosting a dinner and packaging event fundraiser to raise money to ship a Christmas package to every deployed soldier, sailor, airman and marine from Butte County to the Oregon border at 5 p.m. Saturday, Nov.

Once again a local race proves every vote counts. Two candidates tied for one of three positions up for election on the Fall River Joint Unified School District board of trustees.

A woman in her 60s with multiple underlying health problems is the first reported Shasta County resident to die related to Pandemic H1N1 influenza, or Swine flu, according to a Monday release from Shasta County Public heath.

This is a sampling of political writers Josh Richman and Lisa Vorderbrueggen's blog, The Political Blotter.

The thing the school community needs most, is what its new leader has: a collaborative spirit.

During these rough economical times almost every charity needs help. People are donating less this year because of rough times.

An Oroville woman was injured Monday night in the Laverne Lane area of Happy Valley during a dispute with a relative's neighbors.

A stabbing in Shasta County sent an Oroville woman to the hospital. The incident happened Monday in the Happy Valley area.

I've been a fan of flat-track racing for many years, be it TT or ½ mile or the granddaddy, the Mile.

"I know it when I see it," said Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart when asked to define pornography.

A research team of UC scientists has decoded the words in the secret chemical language of Argentine ants - a discovery that could lead to an environmentally benign pesticide against the insects that march into Bay Area homes every time the weather turns cold or wet.

The Cottonwood Community Center and Shasta County Supervisor Les Baugh will co-host a town hall meeting at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Cottonwood Community Center, 20595 Gas Point Rd.. Topics will include the general plan process, growth, values and priorities, south county emergency preparedness, long-term traffic planning and Shasta County's Parks ...

Hunter Ahlberg looks out his front window toward the house across the street that belongs to a man convicted of harassing neighbors.

Who owns the Nobel Prize in economics? A basis for an answer to that question appeared last week, when the Nobel Committee opened the door to a capacious new wing of economic research, citing political scientist Elinor Ostrom, of Indiana University, for her investigations of how ordinary citizens solve problems that arise when sharing common ...

A long-delayed preliminary hearing began Tuesday for the former owner and three ex-employees of a defunct Anderson, Calif., RV dealership accused of bilking customers out of an estimated $300,000, according to the Redding A Record Searchlight.

Jason Lee Moore protested $6,250 of the $11,840.22 bill he got from the doctor, but California's Third District Court of Appeal says he still has to pay it.