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Horse Mountain is a popular place for outdoor enthusiasts in the Humboldt Bay area. In the winter, the 4,880-foot peak attracts snowboarders, sledders, skiers and snowshoers. In the spring, summer and autumn, it brings birders, wildflower viewers, hikers, photographers and rock-climbers, while history buffs enjoy the remnants of an old quarry where copper was once […]

2023 has been a year of transition in Humboldt County. On the positive side, after generations of efforts, we’re transitioning into a community that undams its rivers, with news of PG&E’s plan to remove its dams from the Eel River following word that the first of four dams had been removed from the Klamath River. […]

Arron Troy Hockaday leaned over the highway railing to peer into the water below, where the Scott River empties into the Klamath near the Oregon border. Beneath the bridge, dozens of threatened coho salmon rested on their journey back from the Pacific. It was the end of October, and they were waiting for rain to […]

When Humboldt was selected as one of nine California counties to participate in a prosecutor-led resentencing pilot project, it was cause for celebration in the Public Defender’s Office. Not only would a new state law give the district attorney’s office the authority to ask the court to re-sentence convicts who are either serving exorbitant prison […]

“We have made the planet inhospitable to human life.” That’s what the lead researcher in Project Censored‘s number one story this year said. He wasn’t talking about the climate catastrophe. He was talking about so-called “forever chemicals,” per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), linked to prostate, kidney and testicular cancer, as well as additional health risks, […]

Ninety-nine words don’t sound like enough to draw you in, take you on a narrative trip, change your perspective or sketch a biography, but they can be. Entries in the Journal‘s annual Flash Fiction Contest always run the gamut: stick-ups, budding romances, mysteries, reunions and dystopian futures populated by killers and ghosts, scientists and thieves. […]

It now looks like two iconic North Coast rivers will flow dam free by the end of the decade. Just weeks after the first of four dams was removed from the Klamath River as a part of what will be the largest dam removal effort in the nation’s history, Pacific Gas and Electric Co. filed […]

Founded during the mid-1800s gold rush, the Salmon River Outpost is situated along a winding road in the mountains of Northern California. Once, it was a gathering place where miners and settlers bought supplies while pursuing a dream that had brutal consequences. One of only two grocery stores for miles, the store has served the […]

On a recent Friday night, about two dozen people sat around small tables in a room at Eureka’s Jefferson Center, talking about the realities of living on the financial brink. Each had their own story to tell, but common threads in the obstacles they face trying to not just make ends meet, but forge a […]