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6 days ago | redding.com | Presley Tyler |James Ward

USA Today recently released the 2025 Reader's Choice Awards results for the 10 best chocolate shops across the U.S.All the chocolate shops on USA Today's list of winners are independently owned and offer delicious and distinctive confections made with premium ingredients. Among the 10 best chocolate shops winners is an artisan chocolate factory and shop in Berkeley.

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 | redding.com | Michele Chandler

Redding will celebrate the 160th anniversary of Juneteenth with a block party Thursday on Market Street Promenade in downtown. Like they did in 2024, festivities will cap off with an evening concert by New Orleans style brass band MJ’s Brass Boppers and a traditional New Orleans-style second line parade, where people follow the band and jam to the music.

1 week ago | redding.com | Michele Chandler

The Redding Fashion Alliance is moving back into its downtown location with a new fabric boutique. The nonprofit aims to fill the void left by Joann's closure by supporting local sewing creatives, offering classes and more. Looking to make a "welcoming space of creativity" that fills the local void left after fabrics and craft giant Joann closed, the head of the Redding Fashion Alliance said her nonprofit group is preparing to move back to its prior home downtown sporting a new look.