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 ...

A tip to the Modoc County Sheriff's Office led to the search of a home and the eventual arrest of three individuals.

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 … ...

Around 6 p.m. Tuesday, a driver called 911 to report a body in the South Fork Pit River along Highway 395 about 4 miles south of Alturas. The body was confirmed as Knight’s, and his BMW ...

People visiting the Pit River in east Shasta County should watch for fast-moving and deep cold water during the first weekend in August, and again the first week in September, according to Pacific ...

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).

Tending Nature. The Delicate Balance Needed Along the Pit River. Clip: Season 1 | 5m 38s. The Native people living along the Pit River earned their name because they would dig traps along the river.