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Pacific Power has requested a rate increase of 57% next year in Northern California, an unprecedented price hike in the region and more than triple what regulators approved in 2023. The proposed rate would add around $120 to customers’ monthly bills, according to Pacific Power. The PacifiCorp-owned company said...
Redding's first winter storm of the season arrived on Friday with strong, gusty winds of up to 45 mph, bringing as much as 3 inches of heavy rain to the city — and a light coat of snow to mountain towns in the Shasta Cascade region. The Pacific storm with a stream of subtropical moisture could be powerful enough to knock out power in parts of Shasta County and make road travel hazardous, according to the National Weather Service, which issued a wind advisory in effect until 7 p.m. on Nov. 13. The storm arrived from the Gulf of Alaska and moved over the Eastern Pacific on Nov. 12, said meteorologist Idamis Shoemaker at the weather service's Sacramento branch. South wind started blowing through the Sacramento Valley toward Redding around 4 a.m. on Friday, the weather service said, bringing those strong gusts powerful enough to break delicate tree limbs, stress power lines, upturn outdoor furniture and make maneuvering difficult for drivers. Note to readers: If you appreciate the work we do here at the Redding Record Searchlight, please consider subscribing yourself or giving the gift of a subscription to someone you know. The winter storm turned wet by mid-morning, and
Shasta County released new vote totals today showing the county has tabulated more than 48,000 votes. That means there’s about a quarter of ballots left to count, according to estimated numbers reported to the state by the elections office yesterday combined with ballots counted since. Since election night, Mike...
The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection Lassen-Modoc Unit reports that all burn permits in Lassen, Plumas and Modoc counties will be temporarily suspended starting 6 a.m. tomorrow morning, Thursday, Nov. 12. Due to forecasted high winds ahead of an incoming storm system, the unit chief will suspend permits...
REDDING, Calif. — Shasta County supervisors voted to distribute up to $1.5 million in opioid settlement money through a competitive application process. A review committee will evaluate funding proposals before they return to the board for final approval. The county employees who will review the proposals are Deputy County...
A control burn in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest sent smoke high into the air over greater Redding, polluting skies most of Thursday and creating unhealthy conditions for some. The U.S. Forest Service and other fire protection agencies on Thursday were trying to remove as much dry flammable vegetation as possible before strong, windy weather arrives on Friday, Nov. 13, the Shasta County Air Quality Management District. Some of the most extensive burning was happening in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest north of Redding. Sensors around Shasta Lake recorded as much as three times the amount of particulate matter — the kind of pollution dangerous to humans, pets and other animals — needed to put even healthy people at risk for respiratory trouble if exposed for long, according to Purple Air pollution data . The EPA’s AirNow tracked very unhealthy air from Happy Valley south of Redding to Sugarloaf, 30 miles north of Redding on Interstate 5. Pollution reached at least moderate to unhealthy levels from Cottonwood to the Oregon border, according to the EPA and Watch Duty fire app . Note to readers: If you appreciate the work we do here at the Redding Record Searchlight, please consider subscribing yourself or
As Shasta County works to address concerns from mobile home residents about rising rents, Supervisor Allen Long delivered some good news to those residents at Tuesday’s board meeting. In a surprise announcement during his Nov. 10 board report, the District 2 supervisor said Harmony Communities, which owns and manages two parks in Shasta County, has agreed to delay a $300 monthly rent increase that would have taken effect Dec. 1. Long said Harmony agreed to postpone the rent increase until March 1. The agreement came after recent talks Long had with Harmony. Residents in the Bixby Knolls Mobile Home Park in Anderson and Riverland Mobile Home Ranch in Redding — where the rent increase was about to take effect — have been attending supervisors’ meetings in recent months asking the county to adopt a rent control ordinance. “This give us a little more time to slow this down and have proper negotiations, so that was a very exciting development that we worked out with them (Harmony),” Long told the Record Searchlight after the Nov. 10 meeting. At the supervisors' Oct. 27 meeting, Long was given direction by the board to talk with Harmony Communities and mobile home residents to see
SHASTA COUNTY, Calif. — The city of Anderson is asking Shasta County for a $1.5 million temporary transfer of funds to help cover city operations and payroll. The Anderson City Council met in a special session on Monday, Nov. 10,, 2026, to approve the request. City officials emphasized the city is not going broke, describing the situation as a cash-flow problem.
QUINCY — During the public comment period at the beginning of the November 10 meeting of the Plumas County Board of Supervisors, four Chester residents representing the Almanor Action Group aired concerns about alleged health and environmental impacts of an industrial asphalt and concrete plant near their neighborhood. The plant, owned by Sierra Cascade Aggregate and Asphalt Products, Inc., is located on First Avenue south of a residential area and between Chester Airport and Lake Almanor.
Publisher’s note: According to the numbers posted by the Lassen County Clerk on Nov. 9, Measure Y, the Lassen High School bond measure, remains just short of passage by a 55 percent majority with 3,836 yes votes and 3,245 no votes — less than 100 votes short. Last...
