Shasta County

Last month, the Shasta County Board of Supervisors made a controversial decision to hire a public health officer with little experience in the field.

Shasta County supervisors are asking voters to enact a county charter. The change would give more local control to supervisors, specifically when filling vacancies on their board.

Normally an election to set up a fire district and fill one school board seat in a county with just 112,000 registered voters wouldn’t get statewide attention.

Shasta County has finally hired a public health officer. The decision wasn’t without controversy.

A floor of Shasta County’s jail has been closed for over a year. The county is taking steps to attract more workers to the jail.

An effort to recall a right-wing county supervisor in Northern California has been approved by the county elections office Monday.

There are hundreds of open positions in Shasta County. With such an excess of openings, a newcomer might wonder how anyone could need a job in the far northern California county. But a closer look at the pay and political dysfunction there shows why so few people are filling those seats.

So far, no humans have tested positive for St. Louis encephalitis.

The California legislature passed a bill Friday that would ban hand-counting ballots in most elections. The bill was targeted directly at Shasta County in the far northern part of the state.

Last Tuesday, the Shasta County sheriff presented his latest plan to reopen a currently closed floor of the county jail. Staffing shortages forced the closure more than a year ago.

A decision earlier this year by Shasta County supervisors to upend their elections system has drawn the attention of California lawmakers.

Shasta County has failed to reach an agreement on a new contract with the local union representing sheriff’s deputies and correctional officers. The union says low wages are creating a staffing shortage in the county jail.