Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. The County of Santa Barbara announced that a public town hall on the Modoc Multii-Use Path project will be held this week to ...

ALTURAS, Modoc County -- A hiker from Oakland was found dead on a remote peak in Modoc County Sunday, according to the Modoc County Sheriff's Office. Ben Kiyoshi Namura-Weingrow, 44, was discovered by ...

A crowd fills the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors hearing room Tuesday for the meeting on the Modoc Road multi-use path project. (Grace Kitayama / Noozhawk photo) Tuesday’s meeting of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Three people in Modoc County, including the wife of the victim, have been accused of murder, Sheriff William "Tex" Dowdy said. The ...

The Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors has approved the construction contract for Phase II of the Modoc Multi-use Path. Construction is expected to begin this fall. The $6.5 million project ...

At 4 o’clock on Thursday afternoon, right around the time Gov. Gavin Newsom was signing his redistricting plan into action, with the thermometer reading 107 degrees, I walked across our living room ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Over several rivers and through even more woods, flags advocating secession from California flutter above hills dotted ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rep. Jared Huffman and his wife Susan Huffman, meet with members of Modoc Indivisible in Alturas, Calif., on Jan. 28, 2026.