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Gold Recognition went to Arcata Elementary School, Arcata School District; Dow’s Prairie Elementary, McKinleyville Union School District; Morris Elementary, McKinleyville Union School District.

Electric planes will unlock the potential of small airports and transform rural airports into renewable energy hubs.

Cannabis dispensaries say they are struggling. The industry as a whole has grappled with the price of cannabis plummeting over the past two years and big changes following recreational legalization. The closure of a legacy cannabis dispensary earlier this year shows the new world of retail cannabis for Humboldt County amid recreational legalization.

Gina has hidden in plain sight since she and her brother witnessed Sal Balsarano murder their mother. Unexpectedly, Balsarano shows up, forcing a pregnant Gina to run to her new life, and away from the man she loves, Gray Dunning. Almost a year later, Gray finds her and his eight-month-old son, Matty, in Louisville, Colorado. […]

“Eliminating Hamas will not eliminate the violence against Israel. Only a Palestinian homeland will do that.” | Letters to the editor

I grew up on the East Coast near former Revolutionary and Civil War battlefields, so old cannons were everywhere and not much of a novelty. In their original setting, bristling from a fort or looming over a strategic inlet, they convey an image of strength, but mostly they’re just obsolete iron

The Humboldt County unemployment rate dipped from 5% in August to 4.5% in September.

Only five per cent of the redwood forests that once stretched across coastal northern California have never been logged. An initiative to restore these forests is gaining momentum, aided by research showing that redwoods store more aboveground carbon than any forest on Earth.

The next step was papier-mâché. Just as this began, so did the wind, having made its way through the California desert and into Mexico. The wind was whipping through the outdoor courtyard, scattering bits of blank newsprint all over the ground. 

Somewhere during the Neolithic period, or likely in a few somewheres across the globe, people figured out how to make mead. Traces of the simple...