Despite the apparent lack of much advance publicity and competing Labor Day events, an estimated 1,000 Workers Over Billionaires protestors gathered peacefully on both sides of the street outside the Humboldt County Courthouse in Eureka on Monday. The local protest in opposition to the Trump administration’s actions, including those affecting workers, was one of hundreds of 50501 […]
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‘Come Back Young Again’
Lightning struck Trinity County on July 30, 2021, and sparked a fire that burned for 88 days. Before it was fully contained, the Monument Fire consumed 223,124 acres, according to Cal Fire. One of the 28 structures destroyed was a lookout on Ironside Mountain (Tse:nding, as it is called by the Tsnungwe people). “This mountain […]
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Gavin Newsom’s Redistricting Plan is on Its Way to Voters. What You Need to Know
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Gov. Gavin Newsom’s plan to counter President Donald Trump’s election gerrymander in Texas with his own redistricting play in California is on its way to voters. The California Legislature on Aug. 21 approved his proposal calling for a special election on a ballot measure that would suspend the state’s current congressional districts, […]
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‘No Signs of Recovery’
When the California Fish and Game Commission took the unprecedented step of shuttering the North Coast’s red abalone season back in 2017 due to a precipitous decline in the population amid the larger collapse of the region’s kelp forests, there was hope that the temporary moratorium would give the fishery a chance to rebound. But, […]
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Signs of Soulatluk Revival
As you look out over the water along Eureka’s boardwalk at the foot of F Street, a small placard at your elbow might catch your eye, reading “DA’GURR, Known in English as Sea Otter,” above the illustration of a mustachioed specimen drifting on his back and waving a paw. Just a few inches below its […]
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Global Solidarity at the Mouth of the Klamath
In her home country of Chile, 15-year-old Ianka Purran has a front-row seat to the deterioration of her home river, the Biobío, which is suffering from the impacts of dams. When Purran, Mapuche Pewenche, heard about a historic descent being planned for the newly free-flowing Klamath River in the United States, she jumped at the […]
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Blue Lake Recall: Election on Scafani to Move Forward
The city of Blue Lake is preparing for the first recall election to take place in the county in 20 years. Before the end of the year, voters in the bucolic hamlet of about 1,200 residents will be asked whether Mayor Pro-Tem Elise Scafani should be removed from office, the culmination of months of deepening […]
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California Police Misconduct Records Now Available in Public Database
The public can now search internal affairs documents and other police-misconduct records from nearly 700 California law enforcement agencies through a database created by UC Berkeley and Stanford University. The Police Records Access Project database, which contains roughly 1.5 million pages of records from 12,000 officer-misconduct and use-of-force cases, was jointly published Monday by CalMatters, The Los […]
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‘I am an Artist’
As the film opens, men trickle into Pelican Bay State Prison’s B-facility gym to take their places in a wide circle of folding chairs, and Samuel Nault’s even voice plays over the footage: “We are all creators, every single one of us. It is the chaos and pain that we created which ultimately brought us […]
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Congress Moves in on Barred Owl Management Plan
A Texas congressman recently introduced legislation with bipartisan support to halt a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plan to kill thousands of invasive owls in select areas, including parts of the North Coast, in an effort to forestall the Northern Spotted Owl’s precarious slide toward extinction and protect a threatened cousin from a similar fate. […]
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A Saturday at the Rodeo
Saturday, July 19, was a good day at the 104th annual Fortuna Rodeo to watch and photograph the talented athletes and their skilled animals compete in several events. And on this day, the bulls won — not a single rider lasted eight seconds. A 6-year-old cowboy won a belt buckle and a new hat, however, for best ride […]
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New at the Zoo
Things have been busy behind the scenes at the Sequoia Park Zoo lately. While not out and about quite yet, several recent arrivals are in quarantine after coming on board this summer, including two goats, four spider monkeys — with one making a return appearance — and a rescued bear cub that was unable to […]