New City Manager William Tarbox pulls the controversial REU rate hike off the table and asks the council to approve a $300,000 city-wide efficiency study by Circle 6 Consulting. The council also takes up an interim city attorney contract, the mid-year budget and more.

REDDING, Calif. — A Redding woman has filed a 172-page supplemental memorandum in Shasta County Superior Court today alleging that Measure B — the "Local Election Transparency and Security Reform" initiative set to appear on the June 2026 ballot — was improperly certified despite questions about whether its own statistical signature validation was conducted correctly.

A three-year, $25 million jail health contract sits on the consent calendar Tuesday alongside five Teamsters labor agreements, a school mental health program renewal and $742,000 in fiber optic infrastructure work ahead of the old courthouse demolition.

The Shasta County Board of Supervisors holds its next regular meeting on Tuesday, February 24, 2026, beginning at 9:00 a.m. in Board Chambers at the County Administration Center, 1450 Court Street, Suite 263, in Redding. The agenda spans a wide range of county business — from a mid-year budget review affecting dozens of departments to an eminent domain hearing, a veterans' recovery program, and two EV charging station ordinances — but one item is almost certain to dominate the room: a return eng

The Redding City Council on Tuesday approved a three-year agreement to host an Ironman 70.3 triathlon but deferred the question of how to pay for it, and voted 4-1 to schedule a public hearing on four years of electric rate increases — but not before an extended clash over whether the utility had provided enough financial detail to justify moving forward.

YouTube, the world’s largest video-sharing platform, was struck by a significant outage Tuesday evening, with hundreds of thousands of users