The Shasta County District Attorney's Office (DA's Office) announced that Joseph Blacksmith was sentenced to 50 years in ...

Shasta County is taking steps to address concerns about its criminal justice system, often described as a "revolving door" at ...

Here's what homeless advocates from the NorCal Continuum of Care's Point-in-Time survey expect to find on Jan. 21, and how ...

The long prison sentence Joseph Edward Roza, 59, received in Shasta County Superior Court follows his Dec. 17 second-degree ...

The Shasta County Sheriff’s Office is proposing the development of a new corrections and rehabilitation facility in response ...

More than 80 percent of Shasta County voters approved Proposition 36 in November, and Sheriff Michael Johnson is among its ...

The campus would include a sheriff’s station, and the infrastructure to accommodate firefighting, culinary, farm, and auto mechanics training.

Over the last two years, even a seemingly routine appointment to the local mosquito board has become controversial and ...

In three of the last four years, Shasta County supervisors have not appointed the previous year's vice chair to the position ...

Supervisors Allen Long and Matt Plummer responded to a list of five questions that the Record Searchlight emailed to them.

Strong winds are blowing through the Sacramento Valley this weekend, but Shasta County is having a good fire season so far.

Joseph Blacksmith was sentenced to 50 years in State Prison after pleading to 22 counts of sexual assault against a minor, ...