The Ukiah Valley Groundwater Sustainability Agency agreed Tuesday on a fee schedule to carry out the regulatory requirements of SGMA, the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act of 2014. According to that law, all groundwater basins in the state of California are supposed to be managed by a groundwater sustainability agency, which is charged with preventing a half-dozen undesirable conditions in the groundwater basins. These include degradation of water quality, subsidence, and depletion of both groundwater storage and surface water. The Ukiah Valley, which sustains about a quarter of the people in the county, is considered a medium priority basin. Its population is around 20,000 people, 16,607 of whom live in the city of Ukiah.

The Junetenth celebration at the MEC in Ukiah exceeded expectations, with newcomers and old-timers alike enjoying music, poetry, and massive amounts of home-cooked food.

La Nina is coming, right on the heels of a powerful El Nino. Locally, coastal residents are already seeing high winds and upwelling in the ocean. That could be good news for the kelp, which has been battered in recent years by a set of conditions likely set in motion by warming seas.

One of the final events of the first North Coast Kelp Fest, which wrapped up this weekend, was an open house at the urchin ranch. It’s a green-painted shipping container in Fort Bragg’s North Harbor, next to a former cafe that’s now the field station of the Noyo Center for Marine Science.

The Mendocino County budget is balanced, with $7 million in one-time funds. The general fund allocation is $86.4 million, while non-departmental revenue, excluding one-time funds, is $79.3 million. The county is deferring about $2.2 million, and deleting 142 unfilled positions.

As of March of this year, Chicken Soup for the Soul had about $414 million in assets and $970 million in debts. Shares for the public company have fallen more than 90% over the last year.

Osaka will next play American Emma Navarro in the second round of the tournament.

Children are more than half of the nearly 580,000 people who have become homeless in the last four months, the U.N.'s children agency said.

U.S. District Judge James Cain, Jr. sided with the states, granting a preliminary injunction that puts the Biden administration’s delay consideration of projects aimed at LNG exports on hold.

The United States was eliminated from the Copa America with a 1-0 loss to Uruguay, a defeat sure to increase pressure to replace coach Gregg Berhalter before the 2026 World Cup.