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  • 4 days ago | sfgate.com | Matt LaFever

    As one chapter closes in a historic Northern California town, a new one begins. Located about 2.5 hours from San Francisco, the Tallman Hotel, a 19th-century landmark in Upper Lake, has new owners with ambitious plans to transform not just the hotel, but Lake County’s entire reputation. Lake County is often just a pit stop for travelers headed to Napa, Sonoma or the Mendocino coast — but they’re missing out.

  • 1 week ago | sfgate.com | Matt LaFever

    The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) is closing the Mad River Hatchery, it announced Friday, ending decades of efforts to boost Humboldt County's threatened steelhead trout population. The hatchery releases 150,000 fish into the river annually and will send off its final batch this June.

  • 1 week ago | mendofever.com | Matt LaFever

    A man who escaped from a minimum-security prison camp in Mendocino County early Sunday morning was taken into custody hours later by local deputies, authorities confirmed. Donovan R. Bacon, 33, walked away from the Parlin Fork Conservation Camp #6 at approximately 7:35 a.m., according to a press release from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. An emergency count confirmed his absence shortly thereafter.

  • 1 week ago | sfgate.com | Matt LaFever

    A large-scale search is underway in a remote part of Northern California after a 5-year-old boy disappeared Thursday afternoon along the Klamath River in Seiad Valley, according to a press release from the Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office. The child was with his family near the river on May 1 when he went missing, the sheriff’s office said.

  • 1 week ago | sfgate.com | Matt LaFever

    For over a century, geologists were baffled by the rolling mounds scattered across Northern California’s Shasta Valley. Travelers along Interstate 5 can glimpse these unusual hills and ridges, often mistaking them for volcanic cones or natural terrain.

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