This is the second part in a three-part series involving new evidence and information on the infamous Keddie murders. On April 12, 1981, Sheila Sharp, 14, left the neighbors’ cabin to return home.

Case file update is a new column featuring previous cases involving Plumas County and its people. If anyone has information concerning a cold case, please contact Victoria Metcalf at 283-0800 or ...

A Union Pacific train derailed in the Feather River Canyon over the holiday weekend, but the remote area and the Highway 70 closure, is making it difficult to access. According to Plumas County’s ...

Glittering rivers of vibrant trout, sprawling meadows tucked in quiet forest pockets, mountain skylines serrated with conifers rolling as far as the eye can see – when you consider the magnificence of ...

UPDATE: The roadway is now reopened to through traffic. The California Highway Patrol is reporting that Highway 70 is closed at the Greenville Wye due to a rockslide in the Canyon that is just above ...

Joanna McElrath, a former Miss Lassen County who pleaded guilty to the premeditated and deliberate first-degree murder of her husband, off-duty Susanville Police Office Robert McElrath, on Jan. 1, ...

The rising price of building materials is already a significant obstacle to rebuilding. Various contractors of existing projects in the county were already reporting increases in lumber prices even ...

The trauma of the Dixie and other recent fires are still with Plumas County residents, particularly those who lost homes and communities. There is an understandable desire to take urgent action to ...

Look for this cover of the April/May 2023 issue of the Smithsonian magazine for the story. Image of Smithsonian Some familiar Plumas County faces and organization are featured in the April/May issue ...

Tuesdays are the most difficult. Or is it Mondays? But then Sundays are tough also. What am I talking about? Those are the days when my sense of loss is the greatest. For the past three years, Plumas ...

Will anyone answer when you call 911? Will there be anyone to protect the children? Is there a reason that rank and file county employees received a 2.5 percent rate increase while their bosses ...

1:07 a.m. Chester. A female driver was arrested on a charge of drunk driving and driving with a blood alcohol level exceeding .08 percent at the Valero gas station. The party’s over 1:23 a.m. Portola.