The board will take up an amendment moving the new Mediko jail contract one month early, a labor deal settled after 9 months at impasse, a public hearing on a 350% sewer fee increase in Cottonwood, and a closed-session appointment to fill the Public Works director post.

Who’s funding the June 2026 Shasta County races — and what does it tell us about who would actually be in charge? An analysis of 16,159 transactions, a family spending $25,000 across eight committees, and an official running the very election he’s in.

New City Manager William Tarbox pulls the controversial REU rate hike off the table and asks the council to approve a $300,000 city-wide efficiency study by Circle 6 Consulting. The council also takes up an interim city attorney contract, the mid-year budget and more.

REDDING, Calif. — A Redding woman has filed a 172-page supplemental memorandum in Shasta County Superior Court today alleging that Measure B — the "Local Election Transparency and Security Reform" initiative set to appear on the June 2026 ballot — was improperly certified despite questions about whether its own statistical signature validation was conducted correctly.

A three-year, $25 million jail health contract sits on the consent calendar Tuesday alongside five Teamsters labor agreements, a school mental health program renewal and $742,000 in fiber optic infrastructure work ahead of the old courthouse demolition.

The Shasta County Board of Supervisors holds its next regular meeting on Tuesday, February 24, 2026, beginning at 9:00 a.m. in Board Chambers at the County Administration Center, 1450 Court Street, Suite 263, in Redding. The agenda spans a wide range of county business — from a mid-year budget review affecting dozens of departments to an eminent domain hearing, a veterans' recovery program, and two EV charging station ordinances — but one item is almost certain to dominate th

The Redding City Council on Tuesday approved a three-year agreement to host an Ironman 70.3 triathlon but deferred the question of how to pay for it, and voted 4-1 to schedule a public hearing on four years of electric rate increases — but not before an extended clash over whether the utility had provided enough financial detail to justify moving forward.

YouTube, the world’s largest video-sharing platform, was struck by a significant outage Tuesday evening, with hundreds of thousands of users

DONNER SUMMIT, Calif. — The freeway at Donner Summit is closed today after high winds created full whiteout conditions and near-zero visibil

REDDING Calif, — The Redding City Council will consider setting a public hearing on four years of electric rate increases, pursue a $25 million federal grant for a major interchange project and award millions in bridge construction contracts when it meets Tuesday evening.

REDDING, Calif. — About 200 people packed a sold-out fundraiser Friday evening for Joanna Francescut, the former assistant registrar of voters who is challenging her former boss, Shasta County Clerk and Registrar of Voters Clint Curtis, in the June 2 primary.

REDDING, Calif. — Former Shasta County Supervisor Tim Garman has withdrawn from the June 2026 District 5 supervisor race, ending a bid to unseat incumbent Chris Kelstrom and capping a political career defined by a dramatic ideological evolution on one of Northern California's most polarized governing bodies.

The Shasta County Board of Supervisors met Tuesday, February 10, 2026, at the county administration building in Redding. What unfolded over the course of the morning was a meeting defined by the gulf between the people who showed up to speak and the board members who mostly declined to listen — culminating in new restrictions on public comment, an ongoing measles communication failure, and the continued silence on IHSS worker wages.

REDDING, Calif — Shasta County Assessor-Recorder Leslie Morgan filed paperwork Monday morning, Feb. 9, 2026, to seek another term, according to a social media post she wrote.

The Shasta County Board of Supervisors meets Tuesday, February 10, 2026, at 9:00 a.m. at the County Administration Center, 1450 Court Street, Suite 263, in Redding. The agenda spans elections, public health, emergency infrastructure, labor agreements, and new state compliance requirements — with one item likely to generate the most heat: a discussion of whether the County Clerk/Registrar of Voters has been using public resources for campaign-related activity.

Shasta County health officials on Thursday added a sixth public exposure site connected to a confirmed measles case, identifying a Redding business owned by a sitting county supervisor as a location where contact tracing is underway, according to a county press release.

REDDING, Calif. — Shasta County Health and Human Services Agency is investigating a confirmed measles case in Shasta County, the agency said in a Friday press release. The patient is in isolation to prevent the spread of the highly contagious disease until the infectious period is over.

Another fatal shooting involving federal immigration agents is under investigation in Minneapolis.

California Highway Patrol officers uncovered an underground bunker and a large cache of illegal firearms while investigating an illicit cannabis cultivation operation in Anderson, according to a CHP press release.