Even longtime advocates for marijuana legalization described the Alturas and Pit River operations as an overreach – based on an aggressive interpretation of a 2014 Justice Department memo that ...

ALTURAS, Calif. (CN) – The “purported” chairman of a five-member tribe in Northern California turned a tribal hall into an enormous illegal marijuana-processing operation, federal prosecutors say. The ...

The plants and over 100 pounds of processed pot were found on Tuesday while the agents were carrying out search warrants for the properties governed by the Alturas Indian Rancheria and Pit River ...

Alturas >> Federal drug enforcement agents raided two marijuana growing facilities on Pit River tribal land in Alturas Wednesday morning.Agents with the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Drug … ...

A series of natural waterways and canals would bring water to Lakeview, Oregon, enter California and into the Pit River at Davis Creek, (just north of Alturas, Modoc County).