Jessica Skropanic

3 days ago | yahoo.com | Jessica Skropanic

Outdoorsy North State residents will soon be able to check weather and water conditions at Lake Shasta, or just be soothed by watching water trickle or gush out of Shasta Dam. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation announced Tuesday it will install an outdoor camera this summer at the Shasta Dam Visitor Center. The new fixture celebrates Shasta Dam’s 80th anniversary, and will give people live views of the dam and surrounding areas, said Bureau of Reclamation spokesperson Michael Burke in a press release.

3 days ago | yahoo.com | Jessica Skropanic

Independence Day festivities return to the North State with fireworks at Anderson Explodes! on July 3 and at the Redding Freedom Festival on July 4. Planners say this year's festivals will be doozies, with new bands playing free concerts. Both events also host vendor fairs and food trucks, and fireworks are launched to soundtracks broadcast on a Redding radio station. Here's when to come, where to watch and what's happening at these two Shasta County Fourth of July festivals.

1 week ago | redding.com | Jessica Skropanic

Sherri Papini, in a recent GMA interview, claimed her ex-boyfriend abducted her in 2016, contradicting her previous story about two Hispanic women. Papini admitted to lying about her captor's identity, citing fear of her ex-husband and ex-boyfriend. Law enforcement officials stated Papini's ex-boyfriend passed a polygraph test denying involvement in the kidnapping. Sherri Papini made national news again when she appeared in an interview, broadcast on Good Morning America on Friday, June 20.

1 week ago | redding.com | Jessica Skropanic

The Senate Reconciliation Bill proposes selling off 2 million to 3.3 million acres of federally protected land. Land under the Bureau of Land Management and US Forest Service, including potential recreation areas in the Trinity Alps, could be sold. The bill targets "multiple use" lands in the North State and throughout the WestFederal land in the Trinity Alps in Trinity and Siskiyou counties could lose protected status and be sold off under the Trump’s administration, conservationists say.

1 week ago | usatoday.com | Jessica Skropanic

Federal land in the Trinity Alps in Trinity and Siskiyou counties could lose protected status and be sold off under the Trump’s administration, conservationists say. If it passes, the Senate Reconciliation Bill — the Senate’s answer to the House’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act — would allow the federal government to sell 2 million to 3.3 million acres of land currently managed by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service, according to the Outdoor Alliance.