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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.

Here is what you may have missed: A massive three-day strike may shut down L.A. public schools; Newsom wants to transform San Quentin; and California prison program trains addiction counselors.

Gov. Gavin Newsom is giving up his high-profile call for the California Legislature to set a cap on oil company profits

In Indian Country, everybody seems to know somebody who’s gone missing or been murdered. But one case hit particularly close to home for Greg O’Rourke, the police chief for the Yurok Tribe along California’s North Coast.

A Northern California tribal police chief is challenged personally and professionally with how to solve a crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.

A Northern California tribal police chief is challenged personally and professionally with how to solve a crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.

A story headlined "'The Value of an Indigenous Life'" in the Oct. 13, 2022, edition of the North Coast Journal incorrectly identified Yurok Tribal Police...

Published last week, the Yurok Tribal Court’s To ’Kee Skuy ’Soo Ney-Wo-Chek’ (I will see you again in a good way) Project’s third and final report on Missing and Murdered

Although the spectre of COVID-19 still hangs over the A-League Men competition, it’s a refreshing change to see the APL release a fixture list…

The disappearance of Emmilee Risling is just one of the 107 cases of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women in Northern California. Her case illustrates the historic inequities that keep authorities from not only documenting their cases, but solving them.