Redding News

The California Highway Patrol has updated the vehicle information as it continues to search for the driver from Thursday's hit and run major injury crash at 7:43 a.m. on southbound Interstate 5, south of Jellys Ferry Road.

A Cottonwood man who authorities say intentionally rammed his pickup into an occupied ambulance parked at Mercy Medical Center in Redding on Saturday night has been arrested, Redding authorities said today.

Amy Blackard joins Woodland Healthcare's medical office in Woodland as a physician assistant in the family medicine department.

Another Chico nonprofit is facing the state budget ax. Mountain Caregiver Resource Center, a program of Passages Adult Resource Center, is among caregiver programs throughout the state proposed for funding elimination in July.

A pregnant woman, critically injured in a crash on Interstate 5 at Jelly's Ferry Road Thursday was taken by helicopter to Mercy Medical Center in Redding, where an emergency cesarean section was performed.

REDDING, Calif. -- 'Child abuse is devastating,' said Rochelle Neal, an administrator at the Child Abuse Prevention Council of Shasta County.

The billion dollars it would cost to raise the dam holding back the largest reservoir in California would, at least on the surface, be money well spent, a federal study concluded this week.

With a new year comes a new state budget and with it the opportunity for the Governor and the Legislature to lead California in a positive direction.

The state is offering five public workshops to help partner organizations that may want to operate some of the 70 state parks originally slated for closure this year.

Declaring public service to be "in our DNA" at Chico State University, campus President Paul Zingg said today that service will be given special emphasis this year.

As of Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012, at least 1,766 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.

Two arrests were made Friday in the 23200 block of Westover Road, including one connected with a stolen 1997 Ford Expedition.

As part of the Shrine's continuing effort to do outreach in the communities of Northern California, the Shrine will be holding a free Screening Clinic from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on March 3 at the Shasta Community Health Center, 1035 Placer St., in Redding.

Leslie Buhlman, nursing supervisor at UC Davis Medical Center, reported his condition around 4:45 p.m. Sunday.

The 65-year-old pilot who survived a plane crash at the Dinsmore Airport on Friday afternoon remained in critical condition Saturday.

CORNING The city of Corning still has no meeting date set with the state regarding the Blackburn Avenue construction project following City Council approval to seek one at its Jan.

Editor: So, what do you do with a brand spanking new $88 million dollar, 150-room, veterans residential care facility you can't afford to open? Although 98% complete, the Redding veterans' home probably won't open until around January 2014, if then.

He was killed by an improvised explosive device on Tuesday, January 31 while conducting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan, near the town of Now Zad.

A Marine carry team carries the transfer case containing the remains of Marine Sgt.

Rescue crews at the scene of a plane crash Friday afternoon near the Dinsmore Airport in Humboldt County.