Hopland News

Last week agents from Campaign Against Marijuana Planting joined with deputies from County of Mendocino Marijuana Eradication Team and agents from the Bureau of Land Management eradicated 23 gardens from Hopland to Willits containing 97,630 plants.

The Ukiah Unified School District board of trustees voted Tuesday to approve final recommendations from the 7-11 Committee, which was formed last December to help nail down a plan for the district in the face of financial hardships.

Alisha Roysum has joined the race for the title of Sweetheart for the 83rd annual celebration of Willits Frontier Days.

Hopland Volunteer Fire Department's new fire house and community center building is becoming a reality after what the department said is 20 years in the making.

The county's agricultural commissioner says he'll wait until after this year's pear harvest to deal with what he asserts are pest-ridden pear orchards owned by the Thomas family in the Ukiah Valley.

An old wagon wheel hangs over the newly stuccoed fireplace in the Nelson Family Vineyards tasting room.

The Real Goods Solar Living Institute folks announced this week that there will be no "Solfest" in Hopland this year.

Find out more about Wanda: Wanda Hennig, an award-winning food and travel writer, believes we are what we eat .

A Lakeport man already identified as the suspected robber of the Hopland branch of the Savings Bank of Mendocino County and the Bank of America in Ukiah was linked to two other incidents by law enforcement officials on Friday.

The Mendocino County Agricultural Department got only a few complaints about the smoke in the air as a huge pear orchard in Hopland was burned up over the last couple of days.

A Lakeport man was identified as the suspected robber of the Hopland Bank Wednesday and police now say they also believe he is responsible for a bank robbery in Ukiah in March.

The man suspected of robbing the Hopland branch of the Savings Bank of Mendocino County is detained by sheriff's deputies just after a California Highway Patrol officer pulled over the suspect's vehicle and arrested him south of Ukiah on northbound Highway 101.

COUNCIL HOWLS AT ANIMAL CONTROL. Animal control costs are taking a big bite of the city budget for too little service, the Ukiah City Council decided last night.

LUCERNE Getting down and dirty is exactly what Lake County Supervisor Denise Rushing wants citizens to do.

A nearly 15,000-plant marijuana garden on Bureau of Land Management property in Hopland was raided Thursday by County of Mendocino Marijuana Eradication Team deputies.

Thirteen Hopland area wineries open their doors and their barrels to wine lovers and adventurers during this weekend for its annual Spring Passport Weekend.

At 8:33 p.m. Saturday, a bicycle stolen from the 1200 block of North Bush Street was reported to police.

Solar panels on top of a carport at the home of Renee Cossutta and Debbie Ross in Sierra Madre creates electrical power for their use.

Steelhead fish raised in captivity have been released by members of the Ukiah Rod & Gun Club in hopes that their spawn will return as wild fish.

Mendocino County Sheriff's Office and a Bay Area software company have partnered to debut a computer program that can show you what you would look like as a methamphetamine addict.