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On a brisk and blazing-bright Monday morning, school kids frolic on the playground of Redwood Preparatory Charter School in Fortuna. Fourth, fifth and sixth graders in sweatshirts scamper through the wood chips around the swing set, tromp across the giant tractor tires laid flat in the grass and lob basketballs in rainbow arcs toward the […]

On his drive north last month from the Sacramento area, where he’s lived since 2007, Bill Panos took a detour through the towering redwoods along Avenue of the Giants. Oh, just amazing. Days later, up at Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park, he saw his first Roosevelt elk. It was beautiful. He’s also visited Humboldt Bay’s […]

  A thin man in a wide-brimmed hat ambles through the swinging door of the Old West Shootery and Supply. It’s a tired old building tucked behind an Italian restaurant on Fifth Street in Eureka. Rust stains drip down the off-white façade. The perimeter of the awning has been hand-painted with little red targets, now […]

In Sacramento this year, state legislators will be trying — again — to craft laws that might truly limit access to the guns of mass slaughter, instead of just inspiring fresh bouts of creativity from gun makers. In Washington, California’s senior senator will ask Congress — again — to try to ban assault weapons, this […]

Cody Hills leans back in the stern of the small boat owned by Humboldt Baykeeper, which is zipping north through the Eureka channel of Humboldt Bay. He looks as relaxed as if he were reclining on his living-room couch. Around him the water crinkles and winks, like smoothed-out foil gift wrap. Two frothy white tracks […]

If Humboldt County’s Fifth District were a state all its own — and some residents might like that just fine — its reputation would certainly be robust. At 1,556 square miles, covering the county’s vast rural north from McKinleyville to the Del Norte County line, from craggy coastline to foothills of the Trinity Alps, the […]