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For weeks, social media personalities have taken it upon themselves to broadcast warnings about the presence of federal immigration agents in Mendocino County. Now, it turns out that ICE has been in the community all along, doing what it has been doing for the last six years.

The Fort Bragg City Council and dozens of residents spent Monday night engaged in a heated debate over whether or not to extend the existing litigation pause with the Mendocino Railway and pursue a master development agreement. The council ultimately voted for the pause.

 Mendocino College Theater will present "Mendocino Stories: Instructions for Living in a Broken World" over the next two weekends, beginning Thursday, March 13, at the Mendocino College Center Theater on the Ukiah campus.

From Mendocino County Public Broadcasting, this is the KZYX News for Monday, March 10th, I’m Elise Cox. CAL FIRE recently expanded the fire hazard severity zones for all of Mendocino County. By far the biggest impact of the reclassification is in Ukiah. According to CAL FIRE the majority of homes on the west side of the city are in a very high fire hazard severity zone. The change comes as the Uki...

Missing man found in Albion; seniors engage in post-card action at the Fort Bragg Senior Center; and Craig Schlatter, the Director of Community Development for the City of Ukiah briefed the City Council on Wednesday on new CAL FIRE maps that reclassify large areas of the city as being at a higher risk of fire.

It’s been a rough flu season for Mendocino County. Many of us have fallen sick. Our friends, neighbors, co-workers have all been laid up.  KZYX News reached out to Angle Slater,  a disaster relief nurse with Mendocino County to find out how this year’s flu season compares with other years

Around four dozen search and rescue volunteers spent Monday in the Albion searching for a 72-year-old man who lives on Middle Ridge Road. At the end of the day, Captain Quincy Cromer of the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office appealed to the public for help locating Daniel Jay Salmond. Cromer also provided an update on the 29 year old man who died in custody last Wednesday night in Ukiah. Cause of d...

More than 130 spectators packed Fort Bragg Town Hall on Tuesday, Feb. 25, to discuss development plans for the former Georgia-Pacific mill site—a beachfront property spanning about 400 acres.

The smallest city in Mendocino County is grappling with some of its biggest economic challenges, as city officials weigh budget cuts and federal funding uncertainties that could impact local operations.

Less than 24 hours after a Superior Court judge dismissed the criminal charges filed against Chamise Cubbison, the duly elected Auditor-Controller, Treasurer-Tax Collector of Mendocino County was back in her office on Low Gap Road.

Three hearings held during the February 24th City Council meeting focused on ways to ease the path for new housing in Fort Bragg, regulate outdoor dining, and approve concessions for an affordable senior housing development on Hazelwood.   The first hearing focused on changes to ordinances that were previously approved and sent to the California Coastal Commission for review.  They codified standa...

Opponents of the Trump Administration are calling on people to take collective acton on Friday, February 28th and simply to spend nothing. In other news, area seniors mobilized this weekend around the need to re-authorize the Older Americans Act. In Ukiah. Last week  on Wednesday, the  City Council  voted unanimously to include an airport runway project in the Capital Improvements Plan.

In the Christian traditions sacred images depicting Christ, the Virgin Mary, the Saints and biblical scenes are considered windows to the divine. And you can imagine how powerful these images must have been when artists in small villages used local people as their models for Jesus and Mary Magdalene. Understanding the transformative impact this kind of divine art can have on a small rural communit...

The Mendocino County Board of Supervisors is considering regulating low-intensity camping, commonly known as hip camping. According to the Hipcamp marketing organization, there are currently seventy active private hosts in Mendocino county with a total of 250 individual camping sites.

Turmoil in the cannabis market has affected the property values of agricultural land //turning once-valuable farms into stranded assets. In Humboldt County property owners are lining up for reassessments, only to discover that the relief they seek is still more than a year away. And, in other news, n other news, Mendocino Poet Laureate Devreaux Baker has added a few laurels. 

 In Mendocino County, and across the United States, Americans gathered on Monday to peacefully protest what they describe as executive overreach. In Ukiah, a crowd outside the courthouse chanted "No kings, no crowns," while Trump supporters across the street said they stood for unity. One thing both sides agreed on, however, was the value of the democratic process.

Cannabis is legal for recreational use in nearly half of all U.S. states. And, it’s an increasingly common substitute for beer or wine. Numerous scientific studies back up the assertion that cannabis is less harmful than alcohol in terms of physical harm, dependence, and social harm. But as a new series by NPR’s Brian Mann and Sydney Lupkin point out, safety is relative and highly dependent on whe...

Attorney General Rob Bonta filed another lawsuit against President Trump and Elon Musk on Thursday. This one challenges what Bonta and many others say, is Elon Musk’s unconstitutional exercise of power. And, in other news, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth signed a memorandum renaming Fort Liberty, in North Carolina, back to Fort Bragg. But the namesake of the base will no longer be Braxton Bragg,...

PG&E’s announcement in 2019 that it would decommission the Potter Valley Project led to years of uncertainty. Stakeholders in the Eel River and the Russian River Basin struggled to agree on a common vision for what would happen after the dams were removed. A new memorandum of understanding, announced this week, between the Mendocino County Inland Water and Power Commission, Humboldt County,  S...

One of the first actions taken by the new board of supervisors last month was to agree on rules and procedures that included calling for supervisors to ask questions about the agenda prior to the meeting and limiting public comment to ten minutes. On Tuesday, one resident raised concerns about Brown Act compliance in relation to the first change and the board rolled by the ten-minute rule in respo...

The Mendocino County Board of Supervisors meets today, starting at 9:00 a.m. We spoke with board chairman, Supervisor John Haschak about two issues that are very likely to generate substantial public comment. The first, has to do with, well public comment, and how much the Board should allow and at what point in the meeting. The second topic has to do with the cannabis ordinance and whether it cov...

Here in Mendocino County, we all need to be prepared for fire… but do we all have the skills? Lourance Hall of Round Valley Prescribed Burn Association and Terry Warlick of Torchbearr endeavored to both empower the public, and train fire professionals, during a five-day workshop in Covelo held at the end of January.

In a political environment characterized by tumultuous change at the national level, the Ukiah City Council met Wednesday and adopted an advocacy platform focused on maintaining local control; in Sacramento, Assembly member Chris Rogers, who represents Mendocino County an District Two, on Thursday introduced a bill that would require the Governor to include an assessment of funding opportunities f...

Mendocino County has responded to a request made by the group Mendocino County for Ethical Investing and divested $3 million from the Royal Bank of Canada. And, Monday was a day without immigrants. The point, according to one protester who posted on Instagram, was to demonstrate that American society is dependent on people with no legal status. But some tactics, such as flag burning backfired.