Fort Bragg News

Three-year-old Nikko is a handsome, gentle, white-and-ginger young man who is extremely shy in the presence of other cats.

Judith Kayser is in her third week as the county's children's librarian. She is busily attending to a myriad of tasks accumulated during the months when the children's library was left unstaffed.

Two-year-old Princess would like to be the queen of your heart. Although she likes to have her quiet time now and again, one of her favorite things is to sit on your lap and purr and soak up all the attention you're willing to give.

SAN DIEGO - The 1.75 million camouflage Huggies diapers donated by Kimberly-Clark this week will be distributed to military families Thursday.

The Tuesday, June 5 presidential primary election includes two candidates for the Mendocino County Fourth District Supervisor.

The Noyo Harbor District has searched everywhere in a 200-mile radius for a place to dump the mountain of dredge spoil sand that now stands at the mouth of Noyo River.

"Let me put it this way..." Judith Lou Kerr died Saturday, May 5, 2012 in Fort Bragg after a brief illness.

Visitors from Miasa-Omachi applaud as Umi Taiko, a local taiko drumming group, finished their performance on Second Saturday.

Sweet, petite Treasure is a lovely little lady who certainly lives up to her name.

There were 243 children under 5 years of age, making a total of 838 children listed under 17 years of age.

On May 22, shortly after midnight, deputies from the Mendocino County Sheriff's Office were dispatched to assist California Highway Patrol in regards to a reported vehicle collision in the 29000 block of Simpson Lane in Fort Bragg, Calif.

An officer stopped a vehicle at the corner of Ford and State streets at 1:55 a.m. Sunday and arrested Angel J. Flores, 31, of Ukiah, on suspicion of driving under the influence.

As of Tuesday, May 22, 2012, at least 1,851 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan as a result of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to an Associated Press count.

A Fort Bragg man who crashed into a power pole late Monday night was killed after he got out of his car and touched live power lines, reported the CHP.

After over a year of consideration and legal prudence, Fort Bragg City Council added an ordinance to the municipal code that will essentially ban the distribution of single-use carryout plastic bags at retail stores.

Dr. McCornack returned from Bear Harbor last Tuesday. He has got everything at Bear Harbor in full blast, and expects to commence shipping bark this month.

"Slam is meant to be seen and heard, not read," said slam artist Christina Perez, who taught one of the sessions Saturday at Mendocino College's sixth annual LitFest, which featured writers of all kinds.

A write-in candidate has joined otherwise unopposed candidate Fort Bragg City Councilman Dan Gjerde in the race to fill the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors 4th District seat.

A 22-year-old Fort Bragg woman convicted of attacking two people with an ax in a gang-related fight outside a coast recreation center last year was sentenced Friday to four years in state prison, according to the Mendocino County District Attorney's Office.

Fort Bragg, a city of 7,300 along the coast of California halfway between San Francisco and Redwoods National Park, has become the second city in Mendocino County to ban single-use plastic bags and charge 10 cents for paper bags.