News, nature, and community throughout the Emerald Triangle
A massage business on Fortuna’s 12th Street was the target of an undercover operation involving labor violations, prostitution charges and the DA’s victim advocacy group — and it started with a call from local police to a statewide investigations unit.
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A control burn is no longer under control near Carlotta.
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A bentonite mixture from nearby drilling activity is believed to be behind the white plume that clouded Redwood Creek and reached the South Fork Eel River this week, but confirmation is waiting on lab results — and a fisheries biologist says the impacts on fish and insects could linger long after the water clears.
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A local racing club is opening its doors to the public for a day of remote control car racing, food and gear trading at a Fortuna auto body shop.
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A Nissan Pathfinder sustained major front-end damage in a Friday afternoon collision on State Route 96 near Weitchpec; no injuries were reported.
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CHP’s major crimes unit served a search warrant at a Fortuna massage business following a labor violation complaint, and the arrest that followed involved the DA’s victim advocacy group.
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A wide-ranging conversation covers the redwood market collapse, Humboldt’s housing crunch, downtown development, and why a lifelong local thinks the county keeps getting in its own way.
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A plainclothes unit that handles complex criminal investigations spent hours Thursday at a Fortuna business in an action whose scope remains unknown.
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A 47-year-old woman went into cardiac arrest on the far bank of the South Fork Eel River on Memorial Day weekend — and the strangers camping nearby turned out to be exactly who she needed.
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An unknown substance has clouded Redwood Creek near Briceland Road at least twice in the past week, and with the plume now confirmed in the South Fork Eel River, agencies are being asked what’s in the water.
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