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18-04-2025
- Entertainment
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ICT NEWSCAST: New Mexico's Turquoise Alert, Lily Gladstone's new film, and more
The ICT Newscast for Friday, April 18, 2025, features New Mexico's new Turquoise Alert for missing Indigenous people and Redding Rancheria's wellness campus in California. Plus, stories on boarding school legacies and a one-on-one interview with Lily Gladstone. Check out the ICT Newscast on YouTube for this episode and more. New Mexico joins three other states in implementing a Turquoise Alert system to locate missing Native people, responding to the urgent crisis of disappearances across Indian Country. In Northern California, the Redding Rancheria breaks ground on a 200,000 square-foot wellness campus blending traditional healing and Western medicine to address chronic illness in Native communities. Three years ago, Mary Annette Pember, ICT national correspondent, started exploring her mother's history in a Catholic boarding school. That journey led to her new book, "Medicine River: A Story of Survival and The Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools." ICT has the exclusive interview ahead of the book's release. Lily Gladstone brings the laugh, in the romantic comedy 'The Wedding Banquet.' Gladstone plays Lee, a woman starting a family with her partner in Seattle. Known for dramatic roles, Gladstone shares how returning to comedy feels natural and how she helped shape her character to reflect the local Duwamish community. View previous ICT broadcasts here every week for the latest news from around Indian Country. ICT is owned by IndiJ Public Media, a nonprofit news organization. Will you support our work? All of our content is free. There are no subscriptions or costs. And we have hired more Native journalists in the past year than any news organization ─ and with your help we will continue to grow and create career paths for our people. Support ICT for as little as $10. Sign up for ICT's free newsletter.
Yahoo
18-03-2025
- Yahoo
Nikki McCain homicide investigation began as missing person case: Here were the key events
The status of the high-profile case involving Nikki Cheng Saelee McCain has been changed from missing person to homicide, according to the Shasta County Sheriff's Office. The sheriff's office announced that based on evidence and interviews, detectives believe someone killed the 39-year-old mother of four. The sheriff's office declined to answer a list of questions that the Record Searchlight emailed Monday in the wake of last Friday's announcement that investigators were ruling her disappearance a homicide. Family members have said they last heard from McCain on May 18, 2024. These are the key events in the days and months that followed. Read more: 19 disappearances that are still without answers in Redding, Shasta County Read more: Unsolved homicide cases linger in Redding, Shasta County The last time anyone in Nikki McCain's family heard from her was on May 18, 2024, according to the sheriff's office. She sent a text message to her sister at 12:35 a.m. on May 18, according to Brian Fitzgibbons, director of operations for the Kingsman Philanthropic Corp., which has been working with Nikki McCain's family and is offering a reward of up to $10,000 for information about the case. Family members of Nikki McCain file a missing person's report with authorities and the Redding Police Department starts the investigation. The Shasta County Sheriff's Office, which has taken over the missing person's case, announces law enforcement found McCain's 2002 pewter-colored Chevrolet Avalanche in western Tehama County. But the sheriff's office does not say specifically where the pickup was located. News of McCain's truck being found came a week after her family reported they last had contact with her. At a rally at the Shasta County Courthouse, McCain's family members and friends intensify their support for the missing woman. Some 200 people show up to demonstrate, while in court her husband had charges, filed against him in December 2023, were dismissed. Supporters said they were upset that charges were dismissed against Tyler McCain. Superior Court Judge Daniel Flynn said he was required to dismiss the charges because Saelee McCain could not be found to appear in court. Also, a billboard went up along northbound Interstate 5 in Anderson that says, 'HELP FIND NIKKI CHENG SAELEE-MCCAIN.' The Redding Rancheria says it paid for the billboard. The Rancheria also said it is working with a local nonprofit dedicated to finding missing persons to offer a $10,000 reward for information leading to McCain's safe return. A group from Miami, Florida, is among the parties that teamed up to increase the reward amount for information that leads to finding Nikki McCain to $30,000. Kingsman Philanthropic Corp. conducts recovery operations for missing and exploited women and children, according to its website. The Florida group joined the Redding Rancheria and Shasta County Secret Witness to offer reward money, each in the amounts of $10,000. Tyler McCain is accused of violating a criminal protective order. The order was related to a domestic violence case against him that prohibited him from having firearms or ammunition. McCain was arrested the night of July 30 when a Shasta County sheriff's deputy pulled him over for an alleged traffic violation. When deputies searched his vehicle, they allegedly found ammunition, the sheriff's office said. He was booked into Shasta County Jail on suspicion of violating the terms of the protective order and for driving on a suspended license. McCain later posted bail and was released. For a second time, friends and family of Nikki McCain gathered in front of the Shasta County Courthouse in a show of support for the missing woman. The rally drew about two dozen people, far fewer than the more than 200 people who gathered at the courthouse in July. Similar to what happened during the July demonstration, the show of support coincided with McCain's husband, Tyler McCain, who was in court for unrelated traffic-related cases. McCain did not participate in either of the rallies for his wife. Nikki McCain's family and other relatives hold a press conference at the Shasta County Emergency Operations office in Redding. "The Shasta County Sheriff's Office provided us a platform to speak to the public, to remind everyone that she is still missing and the case is still being investigated," said Kaye Ford, McCain's sister. After not attending the two rallies at the courthouse last year, Tyler McCain speaks at the event. Four days after the family's press conference, the sheriff's office makes a surprise announcement that after nearly a year of investigating it as a missing person's case, they now suspect Nikki McCain was the victim of a homicide. The sheriff's office made the announcement after spending much of the same day searching McCain's house on Olinda Road in Anderson. Officials also said the FBI and Homeland Security agents are assisting in the investigation. Authorities didn't specifically say why the status of Nikki McCain's case was changed from missing person to homicide or what triggered last Friday's search of her house. David Benda covers business, development and anything else that comes up for the USA TODAY Network in Redding. He also writes the weekly "Buzz on the Street" column. He's part of a team of dedicated reporters that investigate wrongdoing, cover breaking news and tell other stories about your community. Reach him on X, formerly Twitter @DavidBenda_RS or by phone at 530-338-8323. To support and sustain this work, please subscribe today. This article originally appeared on Redding Record Searchlight: Nikki McCain homicide case in Shasta County: A timeline of events
Yahoo
12-03-2025
- Business
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What will the next decade bring? Redding Rancheria deciding what the future holds
The Redding Rancheria might be best known in the region for its role as the operator of the Win-River Resort & Casino. Over the last several years, the Native American tribe has increasingly become more involved in the region's health care delivery system and political scene. And it has prevailed in a long held and sometimes controversial bid to relocate its existing casino to a property along the Sacramento River just south of Redding, where a hotel, gambling and entertainment complex is now planned. Opponents in 2020 tried unsuccessfully to block the casino development in the area known as Strawberry Fields. In February, other opponents filed a lawsuit demanding that the Shasta County Board of Supervisors set aside/and or rescind its decision last year to approve a 30-year contract for the county to provide fire, law enforcement, traffic control and road maintenance services once the complex is built. As of March 11, a groundbreaking date had not been set. Filed by California Land Stewardship Council, the lawsuit says the contract approved by the board was illegal and its financial terms "constitute waste of public funds." Redding Rancheria CEO Tracy Edwards said at the time that the group's lawsuit is a "political stunt" and a "possibly misguided attempt to delay our casino relocation project." Most of the allegations in the lawsuit, Edwards said, are "demonstrably false." The Rancheria intends to build a 69,541-square-foot casino, nine-story, 250-room hotel, restaurants, a conference center, an event center, convention center and a 132,000-square-foot regional retail center on a portion of the 232 acres of undeveloped land the tribe owns near the Costco store that opened in late 2022. Win-River's current hotel has 84 rooms, while its casino covers about 60,000 square feet on Highway 273 between Clear Creek and Canyon roads. More: Why Redding Rancheria's plan to expand, relocate Win-River Casino has caused a divide What will the next decade bring? That's the topic to be explored as the Native American tribe this week holds its Soaring Forward Strategic Planning Conference on Wednesday and Thursday at Win-River. Redding Rancheria approved to build at Strawberry Fields off Interstate 5 About 150 people, including tribal leadership, members of the tribe and invited community leaders will attend the planning event, which is designed to help guide the Redding Rancheria's focus during the next 10 years. The strategy-setting session was last held in 2014, with the results published in 2015. Said Redding Rancheria COO Stacey Carmen via email: "There are many efforts/programs that we see today, the biggest being the groundbreaking of our Health Village on March 17." The Redding Rancheria intends for its upcoming $232 million Tribal Health Village in Shasta County to be a place where people can see their cardiologist or dermatologist, get an acupuncture treatment, learn to cook healthy meals, work out in the pool or treat themselves to a spa day. The 185,000-square-foot complex could open in about two years, said Glen Hayward, executive director of Redding Rancheria Tribal Health Systems. This week's goal-setting session, Carmen said, "is one of many that will occur and the end result will be our published Strategic Plan for 2025-2035." Michele Chandler covers public safety, dining and whatever else comes up for the Redding Record Searchlight/USA Today Network. Accepts story tips at 530-338-7753 and at mrchandler@ Please support our entire newsroom's commitment to public service journalism by subscribing today. This article originally appeared on Redding Record Searchlight: Redding Rancheria holds once-a-decade planning conference this week
