A new wildfire was reported today at 12:18 p.m. in Modoc County, California. The wildfire has been burning on private land.

The case was initially charged as second-degree murder and represents the first homicide conviction in Modoc County for ...

Modoc County Supervisor Geri Byrne continues her leadership at the Rural County Representatives of California as Immediate ...

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. The County of Santa Barbara announced that a public town hall on the Modoc Multii-Use Path project will be held this week to ...

A new prescribed burn, named Lassen Machine Piles, was initiated today at 10:19 a.m. in Modoc County, California. The prescribed fire has been burning on federal land managed by the United States ...

ALTURAS, Modoc County -- A hiker from Oakland was found dead on a remote peak in Modoc County Sunday, according to the Modoc County Sheriff's Office. Ben Kiyoshi Namura-Weingrow, 44, was discovered by ...

Three people in Modoc County, including the wife of the victim, have been accused of murder, Sheriff William "Tex" Dowdy said. The Modoc County Sheriff’s Office in a news release posted on Facebook ...

The sparsely-populated county is located in California's northeast corner, bordering Oregon and Nevada. On Friday, county officials plan to reopen schools, hair salons, churches, restaurants and its ...

One man was killed and another was hospitalized after a plane crashed in Modoc County on Sunday morning. The 65-year-old was apparently a passenger in a plane that was taking off from a ranch in ...

A crowd fills the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors hearing room Tuesday for the meeting on the Modoc Road multi-use path project. (Grace Kitayama / Noozhawk photo) Tuesday’s meeting of the ...