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Erik Neumann/JPRLast summer, a wildfire destroyed much of the Lincoln Heights neighborhood in Weed, California. Residents鈥� access to state and federal assistance will determine whether this historically Black neighborhood will be able to stay together. -
Siskiyou Food Assistance/FacebookOutreach for survivors of the Mill Fire in Weed has been made more difficult by an ongoing lawsuit against the company alleged to have caused the fire.
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Allegations against Oregon-based Roseburg Forest Products include that the Mill Fire was avoidable and caused by the company鈥檚 actions. -
Two people have died and thousands of residents around Weed, Ca. were on evacuation orders over the weekend because of the Mill Fire in Siskiyou County. It鈥檚 just the latest in a string of disasters to test this community in far Northern California. -
For the last five years, the city of Weed, California, has had to pay an Oregon-based lumber company for access to drinking water that had been nearly free for decades. The future of the city鈥檚 water supply was unclear, which led to a flurry of lawsuits. Now, Weed has struck a deal that secures guaranteed water rights indefinitely. -
The small Siskiyou County town of Weed, Calif., finally embraced linking its name to marijuana by holding a Four Twenty Educational Weed Festival this鈥�
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Gertrude Price Wardlow, who moved with her husband to Weed, Calif., in 1920, described the part of town where African-Americans lived as a snow-covered鈥�
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Last week, a divided city council in Weed, California voted to accept an agreement with the Roseburg Forest Products company to continue to draw the鈥�
