Some years ago, Laurel Uber says she ended up with a small, unused wooden coffin, given to her wife by someone at church who’d made it. “It’s been sitting around the house,” Uber says, adding they’d been unsure what to do with it. That changed in the lead up to the April 19 protest in […]
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Honsal Calls for Immigration Reform, Pathway to Citizenship
Forty-eight hours after protesters filled the streets across the nation, many to decry the mass deportations being carried out by the Trump administration, Humboldt County Sheriff William Honsal told the Journal the time is right for Congress to pursue comprehensive immigration reform. Honsal said he supports providing a path to citizenship for immigrants in the […]
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Portrait of a Prairie
About a decade ago, ecologist Joe Hostler set out to better understand how Yurok lands have changed over time in an effort to protect them into the future. What he learned helped lay the groundwork for the tribe’s first foray into grasslands restoration at a project currently underway on 60-acres of a site known as […]
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Internet Scams on the Rise
Not long ago, I received and opened my first-ever smishing text message on my smartphone. The message purported to be from a Bay Area road-toll collection agency claiming I had unpaid toll charges and threatened fines if I didn’t pay up immediately by clicking on the link included in the text message. While way more […]
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How the Klamath Dams Came Down
Part 1: Fish and Paper Editor’s note: This story was produced by Grist and co-published with Underscore Native News. At 17 years old, Jeff Mitchell couldn’t have known that an evening of deer hunting would change his life — and the history of the Klamath River — forever. Over Thanksgiving week in 1974, Mitchell and […]
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Providence St. Joseph Faces Another Abortion Lawsuit
The first sentence of local chiropractor Anna Nusslock’s lawsuit filed against Providence St. Joseph Hospital on April 1 cuts to the very heart of her allegations. “When Dr. Nusslock was experiencing a life-threatening medical emergency at [St. Joseph] Hospital, defendants callously, discriminatorily and illegally denied her care, causing harm that reverberates to this day,” the […]
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‘The Peril of this Moment’
Appearing at his first in-person town hall meeting since Donald Trump began his second term as president, North Coast Congressmember Jared Huffman alternately described himself as “concerned,” “alarmed,” “worried” and “terrified” at what the new administration is doing, painting it as a “corrupt” enterprise that’s “delighting” in the suffering it is causing while barreling the […]
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Drug Task Force Alleges Local Business Knowingly Sent Drug Trafficking Profits Out of the Country
The Humboldt County Drug Task Force announced March 19 that it had arrested Oscar Rocael Cruz-Ramos, 29, of Carlotta, after a four-month drug trafficking investigation that included the seizure of more than 2 pounds of cocaine and an array of firearms. The investigation, which began with a tip from a paid confidential informant reporting a […]
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Cal Poly Humboldt Presents’ Season of Change
When someone sits back to tell you about the show they saw at Cal Poly Humboldt’s Van Duzer Theatre — whether it was a ballet company, a house-shaking hip hop duo, comedy (Shakespearean or otherwise), an iconic singer/songwriter or a touring string quartet — there is nearly always a moment of wonder that it happened […]
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MMIP Report Falls Casualty to Federal Data Purge
An oversight group, launched five years ago, outlined a myriad of ways Congress could better protect Indigenous people from going missing, getting killed or falling prey to human traffickers, with particular focus on tackling gender-based violence. Among the recommendations of the Not Invisible Act Commission were specific protections for foster youth, who end up lost […]
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Youngest North Coast Condor Dies of Lead Poisoning
B7, the youngest member of the North Coast’s California condor flock, has died from lead poisoning after just three months in the wild. The death of the 18-month-old male marks the first in the Northern California Condor Restoration Program — a Yurok Tribe-led effort to return the endangered bird they know as prey-go-neesh to the […]
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Trickle Down
As the Trump administration continues to slash and burn parts of the federal government in its avowed mission to weed out “waste, fraud and abuse,” embers continue to land on the North Coast, scorching services. In recent weeks, news arrived that cuts at the United States Department of Agriculture will hamper nutrition assistance programs supporting […]