Fort Bragg

The Skunk Train, a Mendocino County classic, has several outdoorsy adventures in the woodsy works.

An independent commission is recommending new names for nine Army posts that now commemorate Confederate officers. Among the recommendations: Fort Bragg in North Carolina would become Fort Liberty, and Fort Gordon in Georgia would become Fort Eisenhower. The list also includes naming bases for the first time after Black soldiers and women. The recommendations are the latest step in a...

The sweet summer-ender of a series is filled with good vibes, tall trees, and a ride on the historic rails outside Fort Bragg.

Fort Bragg in Mendocino County is considering asking voters to change the city’s name amid protests of racial inequality and police brutality across the country.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday said his administration will “not even consider” changing the name of any of the 10 Army bases that are named for Confederate Army officers. Two days earlier, Defense Secretary Mark Esper indicated that he was open to a broad discussion of such changes. “These Monumental and very Powerful Bases have become part of a Great…

The military is rethinking its traditional embrace or tolerance of Confederate Army symbols

It wasn’t the welcome home that U.S. soldiers expected when they returned from war zones in the Middle East in the past week

Police with the University of California San Francisco say a 22-year-old man who had been with a 13-year-old Mendocino County girl found Sunday afternoon after being missing for two days has been arrested and taken into custody. The girl, from Fort Bragg, was found Sunday evening at the San Francisco Ferry Building on the Embarcadero. A statement late Sunday night…

A 13-year-old Mendocino County girl who went missing in San Francisco Friday was found safe Sunday on San Francisco’s Embarcadero, according to the girl’s grandmother Jamie Buckner. Buckner said that a man who was found with the girl, Sienna Carter, is now in custody. Carter was with her family at UCSF’s Madison Clinic for Pediatric Diabetes Friday when she...

President Donald Trump has pardoned a former U.S. Army commando set to stand trial next year in the killing of a suspected Afghan bomb-maker and a former Army lieutenant convicted of murder for ordering his men to fire upon three Afghans, killing two, the White House announced late Friday. The commander in chief also ordered a promotion for a decorated...

After President Donald Trump singled out U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar at a Wednesday rally, the crowd chanted “send her back!” It echoed the “lock her up” chant aimed at Hillary Clinton that was heard at Trump rallies in 2016.

Going after four Democratic congresswomen one by one, a combative President Donald Trump turned his campaign rally in North Carolina Wednesday into an extended dissection of the liberal views of the women of color, deriding them for what he painted as extreme positions and suggesting they just get out. As Trump essentially doubled down on his tweets about the congresswomen...

One of the devastating results of California’s June heatwave appears to be the death of tens of thousands of mussels, according to Jackie Sones, research coordinator for Bodega Marine Reserve.

Army commanders have complained in recent years that the soldiers they get out of basic training aren’t fit enough. Nearly half of the commanders surveyed last year said new troops coming into their units could not meet the physical demands of combat. Officials also say about 12 percent of soldiers at any one time cannot deploy because of injuries....
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Whenever Brittany Hawley went to class, her loyal service dog Griffin was there. If she needed her cell phone, Griffin would fetch it. Even when she assisted patients as part of an internship, Griffin was there helping out as well. So it’s only fitting that when Hawley receives her master’s degree in occupational therapy from Clarkson University next month, Griffin...

The Pentagon has released the names of three U.S. servicemen killed Tuesday by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan. They are Army Capt. Andrew Patrick Ross, age 29, of Lexington, Virginia; Army Sgt. 1st Class Eric Michael Emond, age 39, of Brush Prairie, Washington; and Air Force Staff Sgt. Dylan J. Elchin, age 25, of Hookstown, Pennsylvania.

The jury is still out on whether women can be successful in infantry jobs, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Tuesday, while offering students at the Virginia Military Institute a dim view of female troops serving on the front line. Mattis, a retired Marine, said there are too few women in the infantry ranks to provide enough data to determine how...

While visiting the areas battered by Hurricane Florence in North Carolina, President Donald Trump vowed to provide the area with all the resources they need for a full recovery.

Eager to show heart in a moment of crisis, President Donald Trump handed out hot dogs, hugs and comforting words in the Carolinas on Wednesday as he surveyed the wreckage left by Hurricane Florence. With residents still recovering from torrential rains that left widespread destruction and injury, Trump sought to strike a balance between comforter and cheerleader, mindful that he...