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 ...

On Saturday, February 28, a power outage affected parts of Modoc County, leaving Cal Pines, Davis Creek, and Ft Bidwell without electricity for hours.

February 27, 2026 – Alturas, CA – Modoc County District Attorney's Office officials announce that defendant Matthew Alexander ...

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 ...

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 ...

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A remote county in the northeast corner of California — with such a small population that it had recorded zero cases of COVID-19 by July of 2020 — is bracing for a rare tourism explosion due to the ...

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 ...