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Featured Pet: Boone
This McNab mix is smart, friendly and easygoing. He’s a terrific family dog.
Challenger moves to first in Ukiah City Council race as Mendocino County issues updated election results
Mayor Susan Sher leads Robert Bazzani by 5 votes for one of three seats. Eric Hart’s lead for District 3 supervisor grows.
Fort Bragg mounts survey to ask residents about housing as it plans for 668 new homes
The city has approved about 163 homes in the last five years. Now it must make room for 668 by 2035.
Letter to the Editor: Tom Carter has a vision for Ukiah’s Palace Hotel
The project needs patience, and Carter has the expertise to pull it off.
Letter to the Editor: The Palace Hotel has been derelict for years
A letter in the “hands of attorneys” to prove the building was safe turned out not to be that at all.
Word Junkie: Mendocino County’s November edition
In which we say thank you all month, then find a thought, a paycheck, a price tag and a bird with the wrong name.
Letter to the Editor: Free masks provided by Mendocino County mutual aid group
Rapid COVID tests and KN95 and N95 masks, including those for children, are free to county residents.
Break-in, worn-out coolers hit Fort Bragg and Ukiah food banks before the holidays
Someone stole food from a Fort Bragg freezer and left the door open; Ukiah’s walk-in refrigerator needs a $13,000 repair.
Mendocino County supervisors’ vote to end minimum cannabis tax is on Mendo Time
Without a new ordinance, growers face minimum bills of up to $5,000 starting with tax year 2027.
Mendocino County’s new $259,296 website puts the right page first
The site went live Oct. 22 with cleaner pages and a search that works.
PG&E gets conditional OK to drill into Mendocino County’s Cape Horn Dam
Federal regulators asked PG&E how it will monitor a concrete wall with seeping cracks near the drilling.
The state has $1 million to watch the California coast through El Niño
Proposals to the Ocean Protection Council were due Friday, Nov. 6. No Fort Bragg or Mendocino County agency or group said it would apply.
O’Neill: Landscape restoration benefits all living beings
Our native plant projects have given me great hope for the process of building healthy ecosystems.
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Psychedelic comedy marks Mendocino Mushroom Month on the coast
Leslie Krongold of Leslie’s Accessible Walks points to two accessible events connected to fungi.
Mendocino County restaurants open on Thanksgiving, and where to find free meals
Restaurants serve set menus and buffets from $49 to $125, and a Fort Bragg church and the Willits food bank serve free dinners.
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FEATURED STORIES
First-time home buyers get down payment assistance from Redwood Credit Union
Ukiah residents Alyssa De Casas and Pablo Torres didn’t think they could ever buy a home. Then they opened a CD account.
Why does it take so long for Mendocino County to publish voting results?
The county counted 17,607 ballots on election night. With 14,749 left, its next update is due Thursday, Nov. 12.
Ukiah police cut off most agencies from license plate camera data
Police say about 250 agencies could search the city’s Flock records. Now 3 can.
State grants would return 672 acres in Branscomb to the Cahto Tribe
Trust for Public Land would buy the land at the mouth of Dutch Charlie Creek and turn it over to the tribe.
Fort Bragg’s old Mill Pond dam heads into a possibly record El Niño
Mendocino Railway’s answers to the state on cleaning up the dioxin-laden pond are due Nov. 17, a week before the first king tide.
Ukiah High alumna’s actions helped prevent more bloodshed in Oregon school shooting
Cassidy Schutz, a former Ukiah High School student, has been identified as the teacher who confronted the gunman Oct. 15 at an elementary school in Bend, Oregon.
2026 ELECTION
Mendocino County still has 14,749 ballots to count, with next results Nov. 12
Close races for 3rd District supervisor and the Ukiah and Fort Bragg councils could change.
McGuire wins Congress seat, carrying inland Mendocino with 63%
Coastal voters reelected Huffman. Tuesday’s election was the county’s first vote split between two congressional districts.
Prop. 44 fails: Clinics defeat measures that would have restricted their spending
Proposition 44, placed on the ballot by the SEIU-United Healthcare Workers West union, would require California’s community health clinics to spend at least 90% of their annual revenue on patient care or pay fines to the state.
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
Willits City Council rejects sculpture move, approves private hangar for REACH air ambulance
The county would have paid to move the Mark Walker sculptures but left the city responsible for damage.
Xavier Becerra is California’s next governor: Five things to know
Unlike his predecessor, Democratic Gov.-elect Xavier Becerra has made few promises on the campaign trail and only hinted at certain policy priorities.
Ukiah’s city manager sets a 2028 retirement date, and his severance goes up
The Ukiah City Council approved the new contract terms 5-0 the day after an election with 3 seats on the ballot.
Police & Courts
Robbery victim tracked his stolen phone to Hopland, Sheriff’s Office says
Georgia man arrested at SFO after search; deputies found 177 pounds of marijuana in his van.
Fort Bragg driver, 19, arrested after fiery Highway 20 crash
CHP says the other driver had possible minor injuries after the Subaru went down an embankment and burned.
Caltrans sues companies behind Hopland’s Thatcher Hotel and Stock Farm restaurant and inn
The state wants temporary work space for its sidewalk project, and the companies haven’t taken its offers.
ARTS & CULTURE
The Mendocino Setlist: November 2-8, 2026
Your weekly guide to upcoming music events in Mendocino County.
First Friday Art Walk Highlights Mendocino County’s Dennis Fleming
The Ukiah branch library mounts a show of Fleming’s paintings along with live music and a creative program Friday, Nov. 6
‘What Came West’ author Josh Weil comes to Mendocino’s Gallery Bookshop
Saturday’s meet-the-author event offers a chance to get a signed copy and chat with Weil.
Ukiah Library hosts poet Jack Crimmins Saturday
Crimmins is part of the LOBA Poetry Series. An open mic for teens and adults follows.
FOOD & DRINK
Veterans on CalFresh in Mendocino County are no longer exempt from federal work rules
The county has 246 CalFresh recipients under 65 who served in the military.
Mendocino merlots to celebrate on International Merlot Day
Local merlots have won gold medals, but county growers crushed less of the grape last year.
Mendocino County by the numbers
Where the county stands on voters, wine, liquor, cannabis per 2025 and 2026 state, federal and county records.
COLUMNS & OPINIONS
Your Mendocino County Garden: November
Plan for an El Niño winter, get ahead of peach leaf curl and watch the thermometer inland.
Opinion: Keep Mendocino’s treatment facility board in charge of ratepayer money
A proposed ordinance enables staff to approve many large purchases without board approval.
Haschak: Libraries get a 10-year plan, residents should plan for El Niño
Many challenges await those elected to office, not least planning for housing with limited infrastructure.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letter to the Editor: Timber management is thoroughly regulated before a single tree is cut
The injunction to stop logging at Dutch Charlie Creek destroys that very fabric of careful regulation.
Letter to the Editor: Long history of studies to stabilize and repurpose Ukiah’s Palace Hotel
A recommendation to upgrade all structures came in 2002; 24 years later, the Palace is on the Nov. 4 City Council agenda.
Letter to the Editor: Prop 40 will be coming for you
The legislature can lower the limit without going back to voters. Vote No on 40.
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Environment & Natural Resources
Sport crab season opens Saturday off Fort Bragg, with traps banned
Recreational crabbers out of Noyo Harbor can use hoop nets and crab snares but not traps.
Noyo Center receives $100,000 PG&E grant for kelp forest recovery
The Noyo Center is 1 of 5 organizations in Northern and Central California to receive funding in the program’s final year.
Surprise 400-pound tasters sample Redwood Valley vineyard grapes
Barra of Mendocino wraps up its 2026 harvest with 23% smaller crop, partially due to uninvited guests.
Potter Valley Project series
PG&E plans November repair of void at Cape Horn Dam in Mendocino County
Federal dam-safety records show a void at the base of the Eel River diversion dam that sends water to Potter Valley and the Russian River.
Opinion: We have a once-in-a-generation chance to own our water future
Working together, we can ensure that our water infrastructure stays in local public hands.
U.S. House of Representatives votes to speed up stalled Lake Mendocino dam study
The Army Corps paused the Coyote Valley Dam study last October for lack of federal money. The bill adds none.
COMMUNITY
Dogs looking for forever homes come to the Ukiah Library Saturday, Nov. 7
Each dog is specially chosen–all love children and want to be a part of your family.
Dogs looking for forever homes come to the Ukiah Library Saturday, Nov. 7
Each dog is specially chosen–all love children and want to be a part of your family.
Fort Bragg Lions Club’s Haunted Fishing Village open Halloween night for its last show of the year
The haunted house is a longtime community event for adults, teens and older kids. Prepare to be scared.
ANIMALS
Featured Pet: Boone
This McNab mix is smart, friendly and easygoing. He’s a terrific family dog.
World’s ugliest dog heads to the coast for appearance at Mendocino Botanical Gardens
The Ukiah rescue dog, fresh off a press tour, will greet fans and pose for photos Friday morning in Fort Bragg.
Are we headed for a pet-ocalypse in Mendocino County?
The county has committed about $41,000 of a $408,000 spay and neuter gift, citing a shortage of veterinarians.
Hopland donkey rescue opens a Texas hospital near auction site
Oscar’s Place had to put sick and healthy donkeys on the same 32-hour trailer. No longer.
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