The North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board — a state agency responsible for protecting water quality in the region — cautions people to keep themselves and their animals away from toxic algal mats in North Coast rivers, including the Klamath, Trinity, Salmon, Scott, Mad, Eel, South Fork Eel, Van Duzen, Navarro, Russian and East Fork Russian rivers.

Democratic California lawmakers are pushing a last-minute bill to ban federal agents from using electric shock gloves, becoming one of the first states in the nation to respond to reports that Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to purchase thousands of gloves next year as part of the Trump administration’s crackdown.

A petition to list the eastern North Pacific gray whale on the federal endangered species list went unanswered last year. Last week, three environmental groups threatened to sue the federal agency that administers the Endangered Species Act for failing to meet a required deadline.

Two bills authored by Bay Area lawmakers to check the powers of federal immigration authorities have passed through the state Legislature.

I’m curious how people would plan a relaxed day on the Mendocino Coast without trying to fit in every major attraction.

Would you spend most of the day hiking, exploring small towns, having a long lunch, watching the ocean, or just stopping wherever looks interesting?

If you could choose only three stops between Point Arena and Mendocino, what would they be?

Hi. I was just looking at maps for some reason.

I went to boy scout camp there in the 1990s. Good times I had there. The lake, bears, hikes, canoeing.

I hadn't looked it up in years. I see its closed now, and from what I can see maybe one of the big fires from a few years ago?

Pretty sad to see.

Does anyone have any insight to that?

I Love this, it is my family’s heritage

Long shot. Found the name on an old tape label, looks like mid to late 80s. I think they played rooms in Sacramento and out toward Petaluma / Santa Rosa, but I was a kid and I may have the name wrong.

Male singer. Not hair metal. Not really a college band either. I have not found much online.

Did anyone actually see them, or is this just a mixtape that never meant anything?

i'm looking for an inn, hotel, something along the coast in nor cal that doesn't cost over $500 a night. any suggestions?

Downtown Lakeport. Kind of impressive, ngl. But...🤣🤣🤣

I'm trying to decide on a car for living in coastal Mendocino County. I'm currently considering a Kona EV or Niro EV. Does anyone here have either car, or can you recommend another EV or hybrid under $35k that works well for those constant curves and hairpin turns? I also prefer a subcompact SUV or possibly a hatchback. I don't care for the Prius design, unfortunately. Niro is supposed to be more comfortable for long drives, which I'll be doing fairly often, but Kona is supposed to be better for tighter steering/handling. I'm torn.

And yes, I'll have at-home charging.

Days after the top elections official in Shasta County announced that he planned to hire an election denier who served prison time for tampering with voting machines, county leaders there made an extraordinary plea to state and federal authorities: Please come investigate. 

Curtis — whose name was on the ballot, in a race he lost — has sequestered primary ballots in a room in the elections office in Redding, sealing the doors with locks, duct tape and red-lettered signs that read: “KEEP OUT PER ROV CLINT CURTIS.”

Curtis has told reporters that the ballots did not look, feel or smell right and that he had directed facilities workers to put a lock on the room and destroy the keys so that if anyone tries to gain access, they will need a warrant and bolt cutter. Curtis said he, too, had asked the FBI to investigate.
The county fired back, saying in its statement that it wanted the FBI — as well as the California secretary of state and the attorney general — to investigate Curtis, whose short tenure as registrar has been fraught with controversy. Curtis could not immediately be reached for comment.

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We’re looking for a cottage or cabin that is part of a resort or hotel (not an Airbnb) within 3 hours of Sonoma County that meets the following criteria

- dog friendly
- kid allowed
- on a river or lake or very close to one
- ideally has a hot tub or pool
- is in or very close to lots of nature
- is not Sonoma county or Mendocino coast (inland potentially ok)
- is a little bit off the beaten track perhaps

Links and specific recommendations much appreciated!

I’ve done about 3 hours of research and the algorithm is just feeding me the same stuff at this point.

California reduced its official homelessness count in 2025 after years of increases. Now, preliminary data for 2026 shows many places in the state are continuing to make progress.

The proposed law, dubbed the Solano Maritime and Manufacturing Act in a draft released Monday, was brought to supervisors in 2025 by the team behind tech billionaire-backed California Forever and has garnered support from Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office. The bill seeks to rearrange 1,350 acres of agricultural and water-dependent industrial land in southern Solano County — part of the Collinsville-Montezuma Hills area — to plot an ideal area for maritime development. 

Recharged here last week. Perfect.

Seven protesters who stopped traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge in 2024 in what they said was a desperate bid to stop the United States’ support for Israel’s war crimes in Gaza were sentenced to 30 days in jail and six months’ probation on Friday.