Susanville News

May 29, 2012 - Remembrance, honor and respect lay at the heart of Susanville Indian Rancheria's third annual powwow May 18-20. The purpose of the powwow, said Madeline McIntire, one of the organizers, "Is to honor our veterans and our elders.

William Wylie-Modro went with an understatement when asked how he was doing after receiving a life-saving heart transplant earlier this month.

"Rocky", a yellow lab, was adopted from an innovative program in which prison inmates rehabilitate homeless dogs.

Salt Creek 3, one of several inmate fire hand crews at Wednesday's Ishi Fire Training Drills held at Ishi Conservation Camp near Paynes Creek, practices moving a shelter during a fire shelter deployment drill.

It is also important to note that standard and polaroid sunglasses do not provide the protection necessary to safely observe an eclipse .

The May 20, 2012 solar eclipse starts tomorrow in Redwoods National Park on California's coast and continues southwest into Texas.

Diamond View School students Abby Cooper, Clarissa Faustino, Mykela Nimmo, Mazzy Schmidt and Samantha Tiffany accept a $4,000 check for their school.

May 15, 2012 - In ancient China a solar eclipse was called the "sun-eating dragon." Incas believed it was caused by a demon eating the sun.

SUSANVILLE, Calif. - Dr. Matthew B. Mills is one of a few ophthalmologists offering a new form of cataract surgery which uses a laser to make its incisions.

Lewis Leaves Suddenly After He Offers Large Sums For Farms HereLassen Peak Is To Figure In Movies H. W. Laugenour, manager of the Film Producers Company, is in Susanville this week enroute to Lassen Peak to snap the burning volcano when it is embraced by its annual winter mantle of 30 feet of snow.

The newly created 1st Assembly District sprawls across the northeast corner of the state, stretching from north Lake Tahoe to Yreka and including the cities of Susanville and Redding.

The man who was arrested after a deadly Susanville shooting over the weekend has been released from jail without charges being filed.

According to Susanville police 36-year-old Jason Hamel was found shot in the chest in the entryway of the home of a man he was seen fighting with earlier that night.

Police say they were called to a shots fired scene around 1:30 Saturday morning.

The U. S. Bureau of Land Management has extended until June 4 the nomination deadline for membership on the Northwest California Resource Advisory Council, a citizen group that advises the agency on management of public lands.