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Shane Drake, Donny Osmond, a Song and a Parking Garage…While one’s mind might jump to Mt. Shasta or the Sundial Bridge when considering the local amenities most likely to landRead More

Lake Shasta Caverns and the International Year of Caves and Karst…Caves have been friends to people for more than a million years, so it’s only appropriate the geological formations enjoyRead More

Top Watering Holes to Help You Cool Off…With Summer in full swing, the desire to cool down in a body of water becomes a natural draw. Luckily, in the CaliforniaRead More

Gold Prospecting In The North State…Gold was once a deadly serious business in Northern California. Lust for it spawned a boom and bust that scarred the land and displaced aRead More

A Healthier Future With Butte Environmental Council…A lot has changed in the four-plus decades since the Butte Environmental Council started the first multi-use curbside recycling service in Butte County, severalRead More

Larry Morgon…I moved to Redding from Southern California in December 1980 to start a new job with the City of Redding. Basically, I followed my parents north as my fatherRead More

Discover Something New…The world around us is filled with opportunities for exploration. Discovering a new hobby, immersing ourselves in nature, road-tripping to a new-to-us spot and expanding our educational horizonsRead More

Honey Run Covered Bridge Association…Flames lashed out and licked the timbers of the Honey Run Covered Bridge. Smoke billowed up the sides and engulfed the interior. The fire crackled andRead More

Thank You for Supporting Downtown Redding Businesses…Downtown Redding is undergoing exciting changes to become a more walkable and bikeable business and entertainment district. This month, the Diestelhorst to Downtown cityRead More

Restoring Vegetation in the Mount Shasta Region…You can think of the slopes of Mt. Shasta as a big garden with a heck of a lot of shade trees, a gardenRead More

Explore the Botanical Beauty Along the Fen Trail…Tall, tiny, sprawling, spiky, colorful or carnivorous, Klamath National Forest’s Fen Trail offers an interesting mix of botanical characters – plus cool rocksRead More

Discover the Small Town of Gridley…Right now, throughout Butte County, 4-H members are exercising their market animals, quilters are putting final stitches in masterpieces, and gardeners are coaxing the growthRead More

Get in Gear with the Shasta Wheelmen…The Shasta Wheelmen, Redding’s premiere bicycling club, raced past its half-century mark last year, and is rolling into its next 50 years with renewedRead More

John Gagnon’s Pac West Helicopters…Over at 16607 Clear Creek Road in Redding, Pac West Helicopters owner John Gagnon and his team are busy. Repairing helicopters is a niche trade withinRead More

Hit The Road This Summer…Summer is here and the road is calling. Whether you choose a destination that is a stone’s throw from home or you are planning an epicRead More

Tips For Your Trip At California Welcome Center…They arrive from the north, south, east and west and they all ask variations of the same questions: Where can I go? WhatRead More

Thriving…My family moved to Northern California from Los Angeles when I was 3 years old and I have been lucky to call it home ever since. My husband Kendall andRead More

Plug in at Dropin Redding…Hey, Techie! How’s the bandwidth out there? Not so good? Download speeds tying you up? Uploads got you down? Got you so frustrated you want toRead More

Naturegraph’s Barbara Brown…When I met Barbara Brown some 20 years ago, she was a spry 70-year-old, running her backcountry book publishing business as a one-woman operation. She ran the printingRead More

Take the I-5 Cheese Tour…While many people know that happy cows come from California, not too many people know about the passionate and friendly cheesemakers from the northern part whoRead More