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Students from Eureka high school, red handprints painted on their faces, were filling sidewalk cracks with red sand outside the Humboldt County Courthouse Friday.

No foul play is suspected in the death of actor Cole Brings Plenty, who played Pete Plenty Clouds in Taylor Sheridan's 'Yellowstone' spinoff '1923.'

In the first year of California's Feather Alert system, authorities denied some requests to issue bulletins on missing people, causing concerns.

Round Valley Indian Tribes of rural Northern California declared a state of emergency on April 16 after two brutal killings this spring and said the slayings highlight the urgent need for greater investment in youth services and programs.

A Northern California tribe has declared a state of emergency over recent violence and is asking state lawmakers for help to solve a crisis of missing and slain members.

Hundreds of Native American tribal members held a vigil to commemorate the “Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and People.”

The state of California is bringing more attention to the overwhelming crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous people this week by hosting multiple hearings and a first-ever candlelight vigil.

The Yurok Tribe has hired California’s first investigator focused solely on missing and murdered Indigenous people.

The Yurok Tribe recently hired an accomplished law enforcement professional to investigate existing and new cases involving Missing and Murdered Indigenous People (MMIP) in California’s North Coast region.

Lawman fears young woman will fall into a missing-persons file, a decades-long problem in Indigenous communities that traces back to white settler colonialism, a broken foster care system and the forced assimilation of Native children in the state’s punitive boarding schools.