Hopland News

POTTER VALLEY A A brush fire off of Black Bart Trail burned about 5 acres of vegetation between Redwood Valley and Potter Valley on Wednesday afternoon.

Imagine a craftsman cottage nestled in a garden-laden corner lot about two blocks from the ocean.

Mendocino County Public Defender Linda Thompson on Wednesday responded to claims that she erred in failing to exclude the alleged murder weapon in the 2010 trial of Timothy Slade Elliott for the stabbing death of Samuel Brandon Billy.

Caller at Lucky on East Perkins Street reported at 4:56 p.m. Monday that a man and woman were by the soda machines and preventing people from entering the store by "being annoying." An officer responded and the couple left upon request.

A 40-year-old Hopland man convicted of murder nearly three years ago is back in Mendocino County Superior Court for a June hearing to determine if he's entitled to a retrial after a doctor who testified about the alleged murder weapon recanted his testimony.

Susan Billy moved from Berkeley into her grandmother's house, the one her grandfather built at the turn of the century on the Hopland Rancheria in 1973.

A Ukiah man was arrested Tuesday after allegedly trying to run from a police officer, the Ukiah Police Department reported.

"On May 14th, I ascended roughly 70 feet into a 100-foot tall valley oak that stands in the path of the California Department of Transportation's proposed six-mile freeway through Little Lake Valley.