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A 31-year-old Covelo woman was found fatally shot inside a vehicle at a large illegal marijuana grow site, and investigators say multiple people may have been involved in her killing.
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Tribal members who want a say in what "tribally grounded" ends up meaning have the same two weeks as everyone else. All three tribes are small.

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Per emergency radio traffic Thursday night, callers reported a woman dead with an apparent gunshot wound at a property in the 22500 block of Rifle Range Road.
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You can't restock a kelp forest at a hatchery, you also have to clear the purple urchins eating it. While divers can do this by hand, they’re only treating the symptom. The sunflower sea star — the urchin's natural predator — treats the cause.
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The exhibition opens Friday at Ridgewood Ranch and runs through September 11.
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On Thursday, July 2, the California Public Utilities Commission, which oversees private utilities, held its meeting at Fort Bragg Town Hall to consider a broad range of reports, resolutions and orders affecting communities throughout the state.
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Adventist Health will host two back-to-school events where free physicals and backpacks with school supplies will be offered — one in Willits on Saturday and one in Ukiah on July 18.
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A three-car collision blocked all lanes of traffic on South State Street in front of Ellie’s Mutt Hut Thursday afternoon.
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Book a $200 night in unincorporated Mendocino County, and your bill includes a $20 tax and a $2 assessment. Lodging owners created the smaller fee in 2006 to fund tourism marketing. As of last week, the contract to spend those funds expired last week.
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On Saturday, the Grace Hudson Museum presents a screening of "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks," a unique story of a mid-20th century African American woman whose cancer cells were used to foster innovative research without the family’s knowledge.
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Highway 101 through Hopland will narrow to one lane from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m., Sunday through Thursday nights.
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Nobody has publicly proposed building a data center in Mendocino County. On Tuesday the Board of Supervisors decided to investigate a pause on that possibility just in case.
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A wildfire in the Covelo-Agency Fire area, east of Mina Road to Agency Road, has prompted evacuation orders for zone MEN-1COV14-A in Covelo.
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Several Mendocino County fire agencies and one tribal nation made it onto Cal Fire’s biennial fire risk reduction community list, putting them at a higher priority for receiving grant funding from the state fire agency
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Word Junkie is a column for people who own too many dictionaries and are not sorry.
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Photo of the Week: San Pedro cactus flower
by Bob Laughton of Redwood Valley

A beautiful bloom on a San Pedro cactus growing in a flower pot in Redwood Valley, Calif. on Thursday, June 25, 2026.

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This week marks the return of the Mendocino Music Festival with a kick-off performance by the festival orchestra on Sunday. Also catch Pine Hill Haints at the Larry Spring Museum and Sour Widows at Caspar Bread and Wine.
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Growers gathered at the Hopland Research and Extension Center for a live look at eight ag-tech companies and their creations. The showcase featured a robot that kills mildew with UV light and a drone sprayer designed for vineyards on steep grounds.
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In his latest farming column, Casey O'Neill cautions about the danger of manufactured urgency.
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The Point Arena mountain beaver (Aplodontia rufa nigra) is cut off from every other mountain beaver on earth, living nowhere but on the thin strip of Mendocino coast.
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