NEWS ARTICLE ARCHIVE — in chronological order, with pagination below
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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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News
Come party on the bluffs in style while the music plays inside from sold-out shows Thursday by Charlie Musselwhite and Skerryvore Friday. Still a few tickets left for the grand finale on Saturday!
Mendo folks, let’s put away the pajama outfits for one night and make Daisy MacCallum proud! San Francisco dreaming in Mendocino is live now at the 39th annual Mendocino Music Festival. Although all the shows but Saturday’s finale are sold out, many people are having a blast just hanging out outside the full tents on Mendocino’s…
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Police & Courts
Defense gamble of putting man on stand who shot and killed Kevin Taeuffer in Point Arena last summer pays off, jury rules innocent on murder
Did the prosecution also offer the jury manslaughter? If not, why not? We also want more info to remember the man who lost his life. Please contact us! This includes any post-trial jurors. The man who is probably the biggest name in Mendocino County felony defense won a big victory for his client in Mendocino…
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Mendocino
DO NOT ENTER! Historic walking trail off Little Lake Road closed by school district and partners as construction starts on water project.
Editor’s Note Mendocinocoast.news has contacted MUSD Superintendent Jason Morse, County Supervisor Ted Williams, and the county public works department about this controversy and will include their comments in a follow-up story. You will need to click on the story link to see updated stories. Other updates will be provided to subscribers only. Several people contacted…
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News
23rd Caspar Fest celebrates towns dramatic escape from Company town selloff with Muppet master’s Gertie, music, art and friend
The stylish young couple just had to take a look . New to Fort Bragg, they had wondered about that quaint New England style church and peculiar structures amidst green fields several times on the trip to Mendocino. What is Caspar?. Caspar, especially at sunset, looked more like a watercolor painting than someplace occupied by…
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City of Fort Bragg
Local gardener leads Fort Bragg movement against artificial turf on field for kids. Effort continues after fact correction, apology. Stop by and chat with them on Saturday!
A century from now if anybody is left to watch Fort Bragg City Council meetings, those who do might say, who was Christopher Cisper and did he know he was ahead of his time? And why did nobody listen when people talked about the incredibly important subject of those deathly plastics everybody used unthinkingly back…
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News
Fort Bragg man, 32, arrested for stabbing mom, 60, and her friend, 47, son claims in self defense.
(Most of the information from the following comes from a press release issued by the Fort Bragg Police Department, issued by Capt. Thomas O’Neal) A son is accused of stabbing his mother and another man multiple times at 163 Morrow Street in Fort Bragg. Police arrested Danynes Cox-Pabo, 32. a few hours later after county…
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