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This week Up the Road heads up the trail—for solitude and some inspiration on short trips along the Pacific Crest Trail, in the shadow of the Cascades.…

Today we head up the road to the North Coast college town of Arcata and its annual celebration of both Kumamoto and Pacific oysters, mainstays of Humboldt…

The Maidu explain the world differently than most of us do. Turtle has a starring role in one version of the Maidu creation story, greatly abbreviated…

We’ve been talking about harvest, such a long, enjoyable season here in the North State. There’s so much harvest to celebrate from here into the holidays,…

Today we head up the road to Shasta or Old Shasta, a ghost town and state historic park flanking the highway just a few miles west of Redding. Beyond Old…

We head up the road this week to Downieville, known these days for its northern gold-country charm and the annual Downieville Classic point-to-point…

A dam holding back billions of gallons of water fails and hundreds of lives are lost in the deluge that follows in California. No, it is not a…

This week we visit Monterey’s Cannery Row and the world-class Monterey Bay Aquarium, which was among the first to recognize that by focusing on the local…

This is rodeo country. About half of pro rodeos in California are held in or very near the Central Valley, which makes sense if you think of roping,…

A Butte College program aims to ease the labor shortage in the region. Also, hundreds of bills in the California Legislature cleared a major hurdle Thursday, and scientists say a $1 million state-funded project to boost the Western monarch butterfly population in California by restoring their habitat appears to be working.