Roads & Transportation
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We will be Staying on This Side of the Westport Washout — Wednesday Is a Stay‑Home Day – Cruise With Us for the Last Summer Day of the Year — And Let’s Hope the Robbery and Drowning Mark the End of the Bad News
The storm didn’t hit as predicted on Tuesday, so we’re holding off on full storm coverage for now while we…
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Westport washout now open to one way traffic, defying early Caltrans forecast, 128 also reopening by 1 p.m, the current forecast says
State Route 1 sinkhole opens just past Westport; Highway 128 closed at Navarro, possible reopening after noon. King tides, storms,…
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Saving Highway One with 100 Boulders a Day, Plumbers, and Millions to Keep It from the Sea
The 1970s brought a peculiar terror: that California, land of sunshine and seismic fault lines, would one day slide into…
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State Parks’ lifeguards help train surfers during a fun day of learning, bbq at Russian Gulch Saturday
A day of fun at Russian Gulch State Park on Saturday will feature lifesaving techniques, CPR and how to use…
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We were truly in a fog when we went to check on Jack Peters Creek opening, come with us and the feth fiata through a familiar coastal wonder!
We were told on last Friday by Caltrans that the light at Jack Peters Creek Bridge would be pulled sometime…
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Red light ‘district’ north of Mendo ends after 2 years this week!~ Let’s seize an amazing ‘concert venue’ above Jack Peters Creek Bridge!
Jack Peters Creek Bridge doesn’t have a grand reopening day planned so far like Noyo or even the Pudding Creek…
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Albion Bridge Stewards Sues Caltrans Over Albion River Bridge Project, Alleging Violations of CEQA
This is the press release from the Stewards. We are all working our other jobs today so we will put…
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NIGHT CLOSURES NOW CANCELED FOR THIS WEEK. Here is how to get around the Jack Peters Creek overnight closures all next week
Plus- Caltrans wants to donate artificats of the old Depression Era bridge project to a museum locally! Thanks, and give…
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FedEx driver pulls over to help crashed UPS truck on SR 128 about 6:15 pm, one lane still blocked at 7:30 p.m.
A Fedex Truck stopped to help when a UPS truck was involved in a crash with a black sedan on…
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Fish Ahoy! Trout spotted in Chadborne Creek are good signs for comeback of the Mendocino Coast’s three ocean going freshwater fishes
Massive Caltrans construction underway in Westport—among the largest of its kind in California—has not, to date, compromised the health of…
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Dump truck flips at Frog Pond Road, causing traffic delays on first day of school
A dump truck went off the road near Frog Pond Road in Albion at 5 a.m Thursday and tipped onto…
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First of its kind tribal collective awaits resolution of “impossible” fix to State Route 1 before taking ownership of Blues Beach. You heard it here, first second, third..etc
Two of the biggest news stories of 2025 are happening at Blues Beach, at the same time, but are not…
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PG&E crews perform spectacular aerial repairs to pole and transformer across from Cal Fire in Fort Bragg
Power is out at the south end of Franklin Street and the east side of Main Street. I discovered this…
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128 reopening announced at 830 PM- blocked both ways all day after crane falls over. Click here for the story updates
At 830 PM Manny Macado from Caltrans notified me the road had just been reopened. It was closed to traffic…
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Big changes possible for both bridges, Albion Headlands, Albion Flats, long-closed Kerry Jane Market, a public trail to the north, and Kristoffersen Ranch
Update on the Albion Flats, the campground that was charging entrance fees and parking fees. Yes, its true, they no…
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Caltrans describes coming eastward shift to work at Jack Peters Creek Bridge Project- 1930s newspapers show how state built bridge that will last another century
(Editors Note-This story is a sidebar to the previous story about the road widening, read that one first on Mendocino…
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BEWARE the night between Mendo and Elk! Caltrans fixing everything on the roads from Mendocino to Elk, but you won’t read about it on their website
Caltrans and its contractor, Argonaut Constructors, are working furiously on the biggest Mendocino Coast road project you have never heard…
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84-acre Albion Headlands for sale, 16 houses or preserve? Will public access to the oceanfront ever return to Albion? Attend a Monday, June 9 public meeting to hear from Land Trust, Realtor
(This article has been built with the help of crowd sourcing and I encourage people to continue and to click…
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87 housing units proposed at Todd Point
Fort Bragg Planning Commission awaits first look at the project next Wednesday, March 12 In a town starved for affordable…
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Police Chief makes progress with Caltrans on Noyo Bridge suicide prevention
The Dec. 7 death of a Fort Bragg teen by probable suicide off the Noyo River Bridge may one day…
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