Celebration of Life for Jeff Sheetz

On Wednesday August 14th at about 7 am, Modoc County Sheriff’s Deputies served a search warrant on Schneider Ranch Road near Day, California. When deputies arrived, they located several individuals actively processing marijuana in a […]

Multiple power outages affected the Alturas area last week, one of which had more than 2,200 customers without power throughout the county, according to Pacific Power’s outage map on Friday morning. Fortunately the outages only […]

The Clear Fire has reached 100% containment, with fire crews continuing mop-up operations in the coming days, according to the latest update from Modoc National Forest officials. This will be the final report unless significant […]

By: Candy Maidens of Cedarville, CA

A wildfire burning in the Jess Valley area of the South Warner Mountains, named the Valley Fire, has been mapped at 536 acres as of Wednesday evening, according to the Modoc National Forest Service (USFS). […]

Red flag warnings and scattered thunderstorms prompted a temporary increase in staff and resources in the Modoc National Forests over this past weekend. Multiple agencies from all over the country were brought in to assist […]

Hello Modocrecord.com readers, We’ve been making significant updates to our website over the past few weeks, and we wanted to keep you informed about these changes. First, a little history: our original site was built […]

The Modoc 4H “Dirt Squirrels” Shooting Sports team competed in our Annual Top Shot Competition on Sunday April 14th. We had 22 members compete, disciplines offered were Rifle, Shotgun, Pistol, Muzzleloader and Archery. Our Top […]

Throughout this week, from Monday the 15th to Saturday the 19th, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife will be conducting a series of deer population studies in the x3b area. Within these studies we […]

While there has been some melting of mountain snow, it is still holding on in the high elevations. For instance, there is still 93 inches of snow with 35.7 water at 7,360 feet in Dismal […]

By Shelby Danley The U.S. Forest Service-Modoc National Forest responded to a fire near Hunters Ridge on the Big Valley RD at approximately 3:38 p.m. last Wednesday. The Hunters Fire was discovered by aircraft en […]

Modoc Soccer opened up their 2024 season in the Twilight Classic, the first ever soccer game played at night and on the football field in Modoc High School history. The Braves faced off against bitter […]

By Suzi Johnson The Modoc County Resource Advisory Committee (RAC) is inviting interested parties to attend their meeting on August 21st at 3:00 P.M. The meeting will be held in the Modoc National Forest conference […]

By First 5 Modoc Do you love caring for children? Now is the time to start your own home-based childcare business. More than ever before, California families need reliable, high quality childcare for their infants […]