Siskiyou County

Authorities claim the former fire chief stole more than $100,000 from public funds in the rural fire district.

Home care workers are fighting for their first union contract with Siskiyou County, the only California county where providers receive just minimum wage.

Siskiyou County reached an agreement on two out of three allegations in a civil rights lawsuit.

The Roseburg Forest Products mill was one of the largest employers in Siskiyou County. In December, it laid off its entire workforce. Now, for the first time since its founding, the small community of Weed is a mill town without a mill.

For several years, there’s been a large homeless encampment on a hill behind the Siskiyou Behavioral Health Services building in Yreka. Locals have debated what to do about it for just as long. That ended this week as authorities cleared the camp.

Siskiyou County is adding options, slowly, for homeless adults.

Siskiyou County has declared a local emergency over the use of dangerous pesticides at illegal cannabis grows.

As Northern California wolf populations grow, more ranchers are hoping livestock guardian dogs will protect their animals.

Gray wolves were absent from California for nearly a century due to hunting and habitat loss. But that changed in the 2010s, when the species began to travel into California from nearby states.

Carbon credits are supposed to fight climate change, letting companies offset emissions by funding projects that pull carbon from the air. But a carbon credit startup with deep ties to Northern California is facing a lawsuit that alleges it misled investors.

If you’re accused of a crime, will someone investigate your side of the story? In California, there’s no guarantee.

Rural counties are some of the most reliant on federal funding and federal workers. But some still welcome Trump’s upcoming cuts to forestry and other departments.