NEWS ARTICLE ARCHIVE — in chronological order, with pagination below
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Fort Bragg
Update- Sea lion vanished from Noyo Beach and has not been back. Story update coming- will be very in depth about what is happening with sea lions right now
Sick sea lion collapses on Noyo Beach, contagious disease it may have poses big risk to dogs, even people A large, visibly ill sea lion emerged from the water and collapsed on the sand about 4:30 pm on Wednesday. We were trying to keep children and dogs at a safe distance while contacting the Marine…
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Business & Labor
UPDATE—Grocery Outlet confirms it still plans to open in Fort Bragg but no opening date set. Fort Bragg was not on the list of 28 unopened stores that recently had their leases canceled.
Editor’s Note- Fort Bragg’s Grocery Outlet is still coming to Fort Bragg, although the company does not yet have a proposed opening date. We were able to confirm this Thursday afternoon through the company. We were not able to get anyone to say this by name, but it comes from the top management. Grocery Outlet…
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Environment & Natural Resources
WOW! New State Parks sponsored group launches volunteer effort at the mostly unseen, spectacular and bizarre Caspar Headlands trail complex
Trailhead has two memorials to people who died off these bluffs. Volunteers start work on Wednesday to reopen a long-neglected and spectacular trail at the north end of Caspar Beach. One can get trained to help with clearing, then join the new Caspar Cares Trail Stewards effort. Even by the high standards of Mendocino county’s…
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Police & Courts
Shrugging off Jury Duty? County to issue warrants for repeat offenders. +California Judicial Council may respond Mendocinocoast.news’s criticisms
Mendocino County will begin arresting residents who repeatedly fail to appear for jury duty, according to Court Executive Kim Turner in a statement to Mendocinocoast.news. Due to a low juror turnout, a new system has been implemented that may require significantly more travel for those summoned. The new system makes it much more likely that…
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Business & Labor
Chase Bank plans to be open Monday after recent staff-related closures. But be warned – hours may still fluctuate, and that phone tree remains a headache, not a help
Editor’s note- sorry if you clicked the last post and it gave a message about it being spam. It was not. But we had to start over and redo and share differently going forward. Chase Bank in Fort Bragg has been closed in Fort Bragg several times recently, posting signs saying it was due to…
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Arts & Entertainment
Thar she blows! What is that sea monster coming out on the walls of North Coast Brewing?
Fort Bragg’s largest mural ever has begun to emerge from the walls from the north wall of North Coast Brewing. It’s a bird, it’s a plane, no it’s a nearly 57-foot-long whale. Sunday work started on a whale depicted swimming through the kelp forest. It’s really, really big, bigger than a life-sized gray whale, which…
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Government
Justice in the shadows: Mendocino court rule threatens public access and constitutional rights
Mendocinocoast.news editor’s note on the August 1 Mendocino County Courts ending all public access to online criminal court files: As a community-based news organization committed to transparency, accountability and public service, Mendocinocoast.news strongly opposes the new local rule adopted by the Mendocino Superior Court on August 1, 2025, which eliminates all public online access to…
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Fort Bragg Police Department
Game wardens, deputies, firefighters, state parks lifeguards and more having fun with kids at National Night Out Tuesday
Code 3 Mind Health is a relatively new organization set up to provide counseling and mental health care services to law enforcement, first responders, firefighters and others who fit their motto “caring for those who serve.” Cops, EMTS, and firefighters are supposed to be stronger than the rest of us, but they are human…
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Government
All online Mendocino county criminal court files vanish over the weekend, never to return
Answers sought from Mendo court executive, but all California counties are doing the same, big restrictions, but little or no public discussion or news coverage given In a blow to public access and openness in Mendocino County, all criminal court files became inaccessible on Friday and will never return online, if all goes to plan.…
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Fort Bragg
Fort Bragg police chief announces retirement
The following is a press release from the city of Fort Bragg: August 4, 2025; Fort Bragg, CA – After three years of dedicated service to the City of Fort Bragg,Police Chief Neil Cervenka has announced his retirement, with his final day of service set forSeptember 30, 2025.Chief Cervenka joined the Fort Bragg Police Department…
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Fort Bragg
Time warp yard sale on South Petaluma continues today- read and see how old American/Fort Bragg values could save us from the mess we are in
On the way Saturday to photograph a political protest and then attend a presentation by Tatiana Cantrell, the missing and murdered indigenous people director for the Pinoleville Pomo Nation, I found a news story that I couldn’t resist.. No disrespect to the other events, but this one contains the answers to global warming, endless garbage,…
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Crime Reports
Philo man facing 7 felony sex charges alleging sex with a underage girl appears in Fort Bragg courthouse Monday. Case was filed March 27.
A 41-year-old Philo man facing seven felony sex charges involving a teenage girl appeared in Fort Bragg’s Ten Mile Court on Monday. The case was filed March 27. The filing alleges Ryan Clayton Davis either performed sex acts or tried to contact the girl for sex acts beginning May 1, 2023, and ending Oct 28,…
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News
Tsunami surge that starts at 11:50 p.m and lasts overnight much smaller than 2011 waves, which crunched Noyo Harbor
Back in 2011 the Noyo Harbor disrtrict, Coast Guard and others faced a boat evacuation that lit up the harbor and created fear and heroism on probably the most dramatic night in harbor history. New technology had given them about five hours warning of a possibly major tsunami headed east from Japan’s earthquake and tsunamis…
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News
Self defense! Case dismissed! Release of Fort Bragg man who stabbed 2, including his mom, ordered
Daynes Cox-Pabo has been found innocent. The Fort Bragg man, who was arrested July 18 on felony charges including attempted murder, appeared by Zoom from the Mendocino County Jail so he could enter a plea. But there was no need for a plea. Fort Bragg’s prosecutor, Eloise Kelsey, told the court that investigations by Fort…
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Arts & Entertainment
Get ready to experience the impossible from Fort Bragg’s favorite Renaissance Man! Robert Goleman’s magic and mentalism shows will happen Aug 8,9,10 at Lions Hall
. Robert Goleman says his Magic and Mentalism show is “simultaneous belief anddisbelief – a contradiction between the rational and the emotional”. Fort Bragg magician and mentalist Robert Goleman will perform magic and feats of mentalism in upcoming performances at the Fort Bragg – Mendocino Lions Hall on Friday and Saturday August 8th and 9th…
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News
UPDATE – woman charged in firecracker assault on homeless woman in February pleads no contest to one felony or misdemeanor charge: three additional charges dismissed, receives suspended sentence
Editor’s note- Mendocinocoast.news has learned that the victim in this case would not cooperate or testify. This was a factor in why the case ended the way it did. Viral videos can destroy your life. Possible Life Lesson – don’t film crimes! A 21-year-old Fort Bragg woman who was arrested 6 months after a firecracker…
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Fort Bragg
UPDATE- SAFEWAY STRIKE CALLED OFF, DEAL MADE SUNDAY. Fort Bragg Safeway was brand new when 1938 strike hit. Unfair! Past century has see dozens strikes and ‘almost’ strikes in ever changing economic landscape
Workers actually went on strike in Colorado but chain made deal with union to end planned Sunday walkout here American newspapers have always been owned by right wing publishers such as Hearst and the Scripps corporations But newsrooms were run by a mix of liberal and conservative editors from a different class. If publishers interefered…
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News
Will they or won’t they? Fort Bragg Safeway Workers Face Midnight Deadline to Avert Strike
Medical facilities in Fort Bragg have been told that strike or no strike at Safeway, prescriptions will continue to flow. Safeway employees across Northern California, including those in Fort Bragg, are facing a midnight deadline tonight in their push for new labor agreements. Represented by UFCW Locals 5, 8, and 648, workers are demanding cost-of-living…
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News
Westport Hotel’s superb seafood dinner was perfect capper to our wedding anniversary..
Plus, what are those giant rocks going by? And Fort Bragg Safeway workers to walk at midnight if contract not signed by then LInda’s mom Anne bought Linda and I an anniversary dinner Thursday night. We had originally planned to go to Mendocino and enjoy the film festival and dinner but both ladies have been…
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News
From Linda and I on our anniversary, a love fest in the skies and on our porch- enjoy!
Lessons of romance, hope and elegance from bugs that live about two weeks These two huge Western Tiger Swallowtails doing a mating dance in the backyard. I watched in awe for 15 minutes, then Linda took their pictures for about a half hour. These two are so beautiful they don’t mind their coitus being filmed.…
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