SACRAMENTO — On Thursday in the Assembly, Democrats shut down an attempt to protect 16- and 17-year-olds and let the law punish the customers who would buy teenagers for sex. “I often disagree with the majority party, but I am rarely so shocked at the skewed moral compass revealed in […]
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Families Benefit From: First 5 Siskiyou Children and Families Commission
Coauthored by Shareen Strauss & First 5 Siskiyou The month of April was about awareness and prevention including Week of the Young Child and Child Abuse Prevention Awareness. The blue pinwheels and red signs seen around buildings in Siskiyou County are to get people’s attention to remind everyone that we […]
The Siskiyou Scenic Bicycle Tour/Greenhorn Gravel Grinder 2025
May 17- 18th starting at Upper Greenhorn Park in Yreka This event has taken place since 1988 and has been put on by the Rotary Club of Yreka and joined by the Jefferson Mountain Bike Association a few years ago. It is a fully supported bicycle tour through northern Siskiyou […]
Art Exhibition: “Prayer, Work, Place” by Mother Justina
Please join us for the opening reception of Mother Justina’s MFA Thesis Exhibition at Liberty Arts Gallery in Yreka this FRIDAY, May 2nd, from 5-7pm. “Prayer, Work, Place” explores, through paintings in various mediums, the intertwined themes of spirituality, labor, and environment as experienced by the female monastics at the […]
Siskiyou Scenic Bicycle Tour 2025
Greenhorn Gravel Grinder The event features:
This Garden Column in the Siskiyou News, follows an 18 year writing hiatus
For nearly 10 years I wrote a garden column that was published in the three South County papers, Weed, Dunsmuir and Mt Shasta. At the time I was the (original) chief cook and bottle-washer for the Brown Trout Gallery in Dunsmuir. This renewed “garden” column will be a bit different […]
CalMatters: Special interests poured more than half a billion into California lobbying last year
By Jeremia Kimelman, CalMatters Lobbying groups spent more than half a billion dollars to influence the state government in 2024, the most ever, according to a CalMatters analysis of data recently filed with the secretary of state. Lobbying by Google, oil companies and utilities in the third quarter appeared to […]
UCDAVIS: Novel Study Calculates the Cost to Cattle Ranchers of an Expanding Wolf Population
One Wolf Can Cause Up To $162,000 in Losses Due To Reduced Growth and Pregnancies by Emily C. Dooley April 21, 2025 Motion-activated field cameras, GPS collars, wolf scat analysis and cattle tail hair samples are helping University of California, Davis, researchers shed new light on how an expanding and protected gray […]
Free Kids Day Festival 2025 Supports Siskiyou County Communities
What is better than a Kids Day Festival with games, craft, food, and activities that is completely free for the whole family? There are so many resources offered in Siskiyou County. The Family & Community Resource Center of Weed has collaborated with Siskiyou Community Resources Collaborative, and all the other […]
CalMatters: Salmon fishing shutdown marks a grim milestone. Why California shouldn’t give up hope
By Charlton H. Bonham, Special for CalMatters This week, a public federal process determined there will be no commercial salmon fishing off California’s coast for the third year in a row. It’s a grim milestone for our state. While we will see some recreational ocean fishing, we’re at the low-water […]
