Sixty seven year old Bert Stead is a portly, soft spoken, slightly grey and thin haired senior who rides a Goldwing motorcycle. Stead could not have imagined that he would be part of a controversy that erupted on a national scale after Second District Republican Congressman Wally Herger praised Stead’s comment at a Aug. 18 Redding health care town hall when at the end of his remarks Stead proclaimed, “I am a proud right wing terrorist.”

Proposal would put 9.9 percent tax on every barrel of oil produced

TC could turn students away as cuts threaten counseling, athletics

 Every sex offender on state parole in California is now being monitored by GPS technology, a major accomplishment that is six months ahead of previous projections, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Secretary Matt Cate announced today.

If you choose to drink and drive this holiday season, those flashing red lights in your rear-view mirror won’t belong to a red-nosed reindeer, but to a California Highway Patrol (CHP) officer’s vehicle.