Redwood Valley News

Jaxon Keys may be one of Mendocino County's newest wineries but its new winemaker Fred Nickel brings a wealth of local experience.

It's has been a year where lawns went brown as people and municipalities tried to comply with demands for 50 percent water conservation.

Jessica Clarke of Ukiah is being shown a glass vessel designed by Lisa Lee of Mendocino Art 'n Soul.

No one knows what will happen to the 24 dogs and roughly 100 cats currently housed in the inland Humane Society animal shelter in Redwood Valley if the shelter has to close its doors.

A former Redwood Valley resident and owner of a former Ukiah medical marijuana dispensary won his case against the federal government and the Los Angles Police Department after his LA-area dispensary was searched and almost $200,000 in cash confiscated.

The Mendocino County Health and Human Services Committee met Monday afternoon to debut a proposal for a code section on medical marijuana collectives and other changes to the original law.

Millview County Water District has three openings on its board of directors to fill ballot Nov.

Cal Fire's Mendocino Unit has declared that the 2009 burning suspension and fire season will end at 8 a.m. Friday.

In the quaint setting of Frey Vineyard's in Redwood Valley, the Fourth annual A Taste of Autumn was held last Sunday, providing patrons fall-time festivity.

Mendocino County Sheriff Tom Allman has been ordered to give back 32 marijuana hash patties to two Redwood Valley defendants after criminal charges against them were dropped.

According to the Mendocino County Sheriff's Office, a 35-year-old Redwood Valley man dropped a baggie of suspected methamphetamine on the ground Wednesday night as police arrested him on a misdemeanor arrest warrant.

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has lots of firewood available for cutting in the Lacks Creek area outside Redwood Valley.

Willits Economic LocaLization and Little Lake Grange will hold their fourth 100-Mile Local Foods Dinner celebrating local agriculture at 7 p.m. on Friday, October 2. This year's event will feature a Mediterranean menu with vegetarian and meat options, appetizers, side dishes, and dessert by Chef Patty Rede.

Interested persons looking to see portions of Ridgewood only accessible by horseback, those looking to sink their teeth into barbecued tri-tip or maybe take their first, second or hundredth tour of the Seabiscuit buildings can cheer aloud as tickets and spaces are still available for the trail ride, feast and tours this Saturday at Ridgewood Ranch.

Tom Liberatore of Talmage is pondering the offer from a friend who wants to make him a web site.

A 27-year-old Washington man arrested on suspicion of arson Monday is alleged to have had 10 pounds of processed marijuana and 24 mature marijuana plants on a Scenic Drive property in Redwood Valley.

Years of work and planning payed off for Jessica Crowhurst at the Mendocino County Fair.

A 15-acre brush and grass fire in Redwood Valley led authorities to arrest Spokane, Wash.

Ralph Standish, no middle name listed, 61, of Sunnyvale, was arrested on a Sunnyvale DUI warrant Thursday in the 600 block of South State Street.

Redwood Valley County Water District came out of a meeting Tuesday night with modifications to a proposed water rate increase following last week's meeting that went to midnight.