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On 4/12/2024, at about 4:00 p.m., Humboldt County Sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to the report of missing person in the Southern Humboldt County area. The missing person was identified as 65-year-old Terry McInnes of Piercy. It was learned that McInnes was last seen by friends and neighbors on o

The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office was contacted and informed that McInnes’ vehicle had been located unoccupied in the East Branch of the South Fork of the Eel River just north of the Humboldt/Mendocino county line.

The Trinity River has ranked number seven on American Rivers most endangered river list of 2024, released earlier this week. The environmental organization points to long-standing diversions for central valley agriculture and the ensuing warmer water temperatures in the river that stretches 165 miles, feeding into the Klamath.

Recreational and commercial salmon fishing in the ocean will be closed again this year in California. The Pacific Fishery Management Council voted unanimously to close the season in the state Wednesday, citing low counts of salmon.

An abandoned train track could be transformed into a 307-mile hiking, cycling and horseback pathway through California's remote North Coast, along the Eel River and towns such as Fortuna.

Gretta Sue Vanzo, 84 of Brazil, formerly of the Diamond area, passed away April 2, 2024, at 12:05am at Terre Haute Regional Hospital following a recent surgery. She was born April 22, 1939, in Clay...

Our northern half of the viewing area & parts of our eastern counties have already had 1-3" of rainfall since Friday.

HORNBROOK, Calif. — Near the California-Oregon border, reservoirs that once submerged valleys have been drained, revealing a stark landscape that had been underwater for generations.

Bob Canevari is "93 years young" and started working in the logging industry in Mendocino County in 1949.

Reservoirs have been drained as the nation's largest dam removal effort advances on the Klamath River, and an effort to restore the watershed is taking root.