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 ...

Remains found near a Modoc County campground were identified as Emmanuel Pochylski, 41, who was last seen on June 11. This is Modoc County's first homicide since 2020. Three people in Modoc County, ...

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 ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Over several rivers and through even more woods, flags advocating secession from California flutter above hills dotted ...

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 ...

Dr. Mark Chofla is a board-certified psychiatrist and physician who completed his specialty residency training at the Los Angeles County + University of Southern California Medical Center. After ...

The sparsely-populated county is located in California's northeast corner, bordering Oregon and Nevada. On Friday, county officials plan to reopen schools, hair salons, churches, restaurants and its ...