One suspects pleads not guilty to Willow Creek man's murder
One of two men arrested last week on suspicion of killing a Willow Creek man pleaded not guilty to the charges Wednesday while the other is expected to enter a plea today.
View ArticleCity still mulling how to encourage helmet, pad use at skate park
Staff says recent closure was very effective while council members push for issuing tickets For more than an hour Wednesday night, the Ukiah City Council debated how the city might be able to encourage...
View ArticleFetzer sold to Chilean company
The Fetzer wine label and its Hopland winery have been sold to a Chilean wine giant. Brown-Forman Corporation of Kentucky announced Tuesday that the company has agreed to sell Fetzer Vineyards of...
View ArticleNew booking log ad bringing donations to Sheriff's Office
Anyone who checks the sheriff's website to see who's been arrested lately may have noticed a new advertisement on the site: Mendocino County Sheriff Tom Allman's black-and-white picture, alternating...
View ArticleCouncil sets post office meeting for next month
Public urges city to get its own estimates on costs to repair Oak Street building After adding an "urgency item" to Wednesday night's agenda, the Ukiah City Council tentatively scheduled a public...
View ArticleBody of work
Lyle Tuttle is a walking tattoo museum, but he also dreams of opening his massive collection of artifacts to the public again.
View ArticleUPDATE: Harbor waters rough
Water was rushing out of the Noyo Harbor all morning Friday, according to Fire Chief Steve Orsi of the Fort Bragg Fire Department, and surging back, "but not with the force we were expecting.
View ArticleTsunami waves reach county
"That's incredible!" says Mendocino County Sheriff Tom Allman as he gazes in amazement at the next in a series of ocean surges pouring through the narrow protective jetty that is the ingress and egress...
View ArticleAssignment: Ukiah - A whiter shade of pale, whitish white
I bought an old beater of a house on North Oak Street back in the 80s, fixed it up to my exacting standards and lived there happily enough, given that it was Ukiah, for more than a decade.
View ArticleHappy 150th birthday, dear Mr. Purdy
Museum celebrates horticulturalist's sesquicentennial One hundred fifty years ago today, on March 16, 1861, Carl Purdy was born in a log house in Dansville, Michigan.
View ArticleGrowth vs. no growth debated at UVAP meeting
Debate about the Ukiah Valley Area Plan continued Tuesday night among interested community members along the lines of growth vs.
View ArticleUkiah woman deported after filing false tax returns
A Ukiah woman caught filing false tax returns was sentenced to five years in prison and deported, the Mendocino County District Attorney's Office reported Tuesday.
View ArticleHwy. 101 south of Hopland reduced to two lanes
Lower speed limit, lane closures will be in effect until summer The Daily Journal A winding section of Highway 101 near Squaw Rock will be reduced to two lanes and have a significantly lowered speed...
View ArticleSEIU taking to streets over stalled county labor talks
Citing little or no progress in closed-door negotiations, county labor union leaders began earlier this month taking more visible steps to get their point across.
View ArticleStorybook Project: Bringing inmate voices home to families
In one of the classrooms at the Mendocino County Jail, children's books are strewn across a table.
View ArticleUpdate: Hwy. 101 near Garberville may be closed for days due to mudslide
Highway 101 in southern Humboldt County will likely be closed for two or three days due to a large mudslide approximately one mile north of Dean Creek, approximately 60 miles south of Eureka.
View ArticleSale of Fetzer Vineyards closes
The Daily Journal ViƱa Concha y Toro S.A. announced Friday that the sale of Fetzer Vineyards closed, and the transfer of ownership is fully assumed by the Chilean wine producer.
View ArticleAssignment: Ukiah - Hurry up and spend it before it's all gone
Remember the good old days when folks in a town would decide something needed to get done - a park with swings and slides for kids, or a ball diamond or a schoolhouse - and then they'd roll up their...
View ArticleShelter felines benefit from teen sewing project
Boxes of PVC pipe and a bolt of heavy-duty outdoor fabric fill the room. A card table holding a sewing machine, extra needles and thread, and boxes of fabric squares and metallic snaps stands in a corner.
View ArticleShinn to be tried for murder in failed Willits pot robbery
Mendocino County prosecutors on Friday won their bid to try a Laytonville man for murder under the rarely-used Provocative Act Doctrine, which holds that a person can be guilty of a killing even if...
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