In the high desert of California’s most northeastern corner, ‘Bad Jack’ Breiner met ‘Our Jack’ Hopkins on a deserted dirt road in October 2016. Only one survived, forcing this remote county to rethink ...
When Joseph Dupris was contacted in 2021 by Taylor Tupper, Modoc descendant and citizen of the Klamath Tribes, to work on a short film set in their shared ancestral homelands, he was intrigued. Two ...
Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. Construction is expected to begin this fall on Phase II of the Modoc Multi Use Path. | Credit: County of Santa Barbara (SANTA ...
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Over several rivers and through even more woods, flags advocating secession from California flutter above hills dotted ...
Deputy Public Works Director Chris Sneddon explains that that there is enough width on the lower half of the Modoc project to shift the road over four feet. The would provide enough space for a Class ...
Modoc County, which has fewer than 9,000 residents and reported zero cases of the coronavirus, is set to become the first county in California to ease stay-at-home rules Friday, despite Gov. Gavin ...
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 ...
A rugged volcanic landscape was once the site of a dramatic standoff between the Modoc tribe and the U.S. Army In 1872, some 150 members of the Modoc tribe took refuge in arid and unforgiving terrain ...
Beginning in the fall of 1872, a small band of Modoc warriors and their families held off hundreds of U.S. soldiers in the lava fields of Northern California. Ultimately, the conflict left the Modoc ...