It was in early 1986 that Redding resident Dwight Evans, who’s an International Brotherhood of Workers (IBEW) retiree, thought it would be nice to have a family-type picnic with games for the kids, live music, and, of course, great food and brotherhood, in Anderson River Park on Labor Day every year, open to the public and hosted by Union members and their families who reside in the five counties of Shasta, Siskiyou, Trinity, Lassen, and Modoc. But Evans knew he’d need help

Interim City Manager Michael Webb named Joe Bowers as Interim Redding City Finance Director. Bowers is the utility official who sold rate hikes and explained a $9 million jump in personnel costs. The appointment came four days before Circle 6’s full efficiency report reaches the council dais. REDDING, Calif. — Four days before a $300,000 consultant study is scheduled to tell the City Council where Redding can cut costs, Interim City Manager Michael Webb handed the city’s chec

In the slightly secluded, yet connected to the Sheraton Redding Hotel at the Sundial Bridge’s Ken Griffin Pavilion, a sizeable number of Anderson Chamber of Commerce Greeters and their guests assembled on the August 26 day of 2026 to hear presentations by several Sheraton Redding Hotel at the Sundial Bridge hospitality staff: They were: Melissa Kallmes, Director of Sales and Marketing; Sierra Dank, Catering Sales Manager and Christelle Davis, Catering Sales Manager. “Than

Enos Stanley “Stan” Kroenke was born July 29, 1947, in Columbia, Missouri, and raised in Mora, an unincorporated speck of a town whose population could be counted on two hands. His father, Alvin, owned the Mora Lumber Company. By age 10, Stan was sweeping the floors and keeping the books. By 12, he was putting in 10-hour days, six days a week, hauling lumber by hand. His full name honored two St. Louis Cardinals legends his family listened to on the radio: Enos Slaughter and

On a pleasantly warm and sunny Friday morning, 8-21-2026 to be exact, several dozen members of the Greater Redding Chamber of Commerce gathered at 1380 Hilltop Drive to cut a ribbon and officially welcome the Rogue Credit Union as a new member. Rogue Credit Union Senior Vice President of Operations and Strategic Initiatives, Caroline Redmann, delivered welcoming remarks, explaining that Rogue Credit Union, based in Medford, Oregon, has completed a merger with Members 1st Cred

SNAP Logo - Credit usda.gov Enrollment in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, known as CalFresh in California) has fallen sharply, declining more than 13% in a single year. Preliminary USDA data shows participation dropping from 42.2 million people in May 2025 to 36.6 million in May 2026. This follows the implementation of expanded work requirements and other reforms in President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act (also called H.R. 1 or the “big beautiful bil

Compiled from Freddie Mac PMMS historical data. Interest rates that determine what families pay for mortgages are closely linked to a key benchmark set by the Federal Reserve: the federal funds rate. This is the overnight interest rate banks charge one another for reserves. When the Fed raises or lowers its target for this rate, the effects flow through the broader economy and strongly influence longer-term rates, including the 30-year fixed mortgage rate that most homebuyers

Hollywood’s production decline continues, with another longtime service company shutting down and Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison threatening to relocate the studio’s headquarters and jobs out of California unless Attorney General Rob Bonta settles or drops an antitrust challenge to Paramount’s planned acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery. Paramount Studios, Hollywood, CA - Credit: travelinusa.us Shadowcast Pictures, a Los Angeles-based production equipment rental compa

Tau Robotics has launched an invite-only humanoid cleaning service in San Francisco at $30 per hour, positioning real-home deployments as both a practical service and a data engine for advancing general-purpose robot AI. Photo credit: X @alexkoch_ai Founded in 2024 by Alexander Koch (CEO) and Cornelia Weinzierl, the compact San Francisco-based company is building toward general AI for robots. It has raised roughly $2.6–3 million in pre-seed funding and operates with a small t

Photo credit: WhiteHouse.gov President Donald Trump visited General Motors’ historic Milford Proving Ground in Michigan on Monday, marking the first presidential stop at the storied testing facility. Speaking to auto workers, executives, and local officials, Trump framed his administration’s tariffs, deregulation, and manufacturing policies as the driving force behind a resurgence in American auto production, while sharply criticizing prior Democratic leadership and outlining

Lake Mead and Lake Powell, the twin pillars of the Colorado River system, are once again near historic lows in July 2026. Lake Mead sits around 1,041–1,042 feet elevation—roughly 27 percent of capacity—hovering near previous record lows. Lake Powell is near 3,523 feet, about 23 percent full. Releases from Glen Canyon Dam have been reduced to 6.0 million acre-feet for the current water year to protect infrastructure and power generation. The Lower Basin is in a Tier 1 shortage

Threat to North State Agriculture, Economy, and Food Security. The Glassy-winged sharpshooter, an invasive pest that threatens the wine industry. - 'Credit winespectator.com Shasta County and Northern California residents who purchased grapevines or certain other plants from Costco this spring and early summer have received an urgent agricultural alert. On June 5, 2026, a confirmed glassy-winged sharpshooter (GWSS) was found on a grape plant bought at the Redding Costco locat

In an era when California taxpayers are asked to shoulder some of the highest burdens in the nation while often left in the dark about where their hard-earned dollars actually go, one candidate is doing more than talking about accountability—he’s building the tools to deliver it. Herb Morgan, the Republican candidate for California State Controller, has launched California Radical Transparency (CRT 2.0), a powerful, citizen-focused web platform that transforms complex state s

California cases among the worst: SoCal officials looted $20 million for luxury homes, BMWs, designer bags and Disney cruises while kids lost thousands per student Education Secretary Linda McMahon dropped a bombshell this week: the Trump Administration has already stopped more than $2 billion in fraudulent federal student aid (mostly FAFSA “ghost students” and bot-driven scams) — and is now turning the full force of the Department of Education’s fraud-fighting machinery on K

Everyone wants the wealthy to pay their fair share of taxes. By and large, that is how the U.S. and most state tax tables are designed to work. Despite this, “Tax the rich” remains the favorite slogan of progressive politicians from Albany to Sacramento. It sounds simple, moral, and painless — make the wealthy pay “their fair share” so everyone else can have more free services. Reality is less romantic. Two coastal experiments — one already underway in New York and one about

While Shasta County residents still enjoy one of the lowest combined sales tax rates in California at 7.25%, parts of the Golden State have quietly crossed into double-digit territory that would make even high-tax East Coast states blush. Lancaster and Palmdale — two Antelope Valley cities in Los Angeles County — now charge a combined sales tax of 11.25%. Santa Fe Springs sits at 11.00%. Dozens of other Los Angeles County cities and several Bay Area jurisdictions hover betwee