Hoopa News

HUMBOLDT A vehicular manslaughter charge against a Hoopa man who hit and killed a bicyclist on State Route 299 has been downgraded, disappointing observers of the case and making a plea deal likely.

Firefighters checked the spread of the Backbone Fire, located on Devil's Backbone Ridge yesterday.

The Backbone Fire, formerly called the Lower Trinity-17 Fire on the Six Rivers National Forest, and the Trinity Fire on the Shasta-Trinity National Forest have combined and is now approximately 3300 acres.

Four new fires were discovered Thursday following afternoon thunderstorms on Wednesday that sent engines and hand crews from the Six Rivers National Forest, CalFire, Salyer & Hawkins Bar Volunteer Fire Department and Hoopa Fire to several blazes caused by lightning north and south of Hawkins Bar.

A felony gross negligence charge was reduced to a misdemeanor this morning in the case involving a Hoopa driver who hit and killed a cyclist last year.

A Hoopa woman is in critical condition after being shot in the face Sunday evening by an unknown assailant.

For Mary Claw of the Chemehuevi Tribe, basket weaving isn't just an art form. It's also preservation.

The California Indian Basketweavers Association will hold its 19th annual statewide Basketweavers Gathering in Hoopa on Saturday, June 27, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Tish Tang Campground on the Trinity River, 17 miles north of Willow Creek along Highway 96.

Dr. Kishan Lara, a Hoopa Tribe member and of Yurok and Karuk descent, is the first of her tribes to earn a doctorate in education.

Federal agents arrested a Hoopa woman in Albuquerque after she allegedly abducted her daughter and fled to New Mexico.

For many in Hoopa, Bigfoot is a reality of the inland valley -- one that several residents have experienced through first-hand encounters.

Hoopa Valley was mostly likely a much different world in 1956. That was the summer that now retired University of Kansas English professor Elizabeth Schultz arrived in Hoopa in early July as part of an American Friends Service Committee to help the valley's residents restore their homes damaged in the 1955 flood.

At a time when finding a job may seem more elusive than good economic news, the Job Market has opportunities.

A Siskiyou County judge on Wednesday denied a defense attorney's request to throw out a confession reportedly made by a former Hoopa resident accused of killing a 6-year-old boy after abducting him in 1976.

The Klamath Riverkeeper is sponsoring a local screening of a new film, "Upstream Battle," that documents the efforts of Yurok, Hoopa, Karuk and Klamath Tribal members who are trying to un-dam the Klamath River.

Coming out of the Humboldt State University teaching credential program, Brian Hopper barely found a job.

Three Siskiyou County sheriff's deputies were in court last week testifying about the kidnap and murder of 6-year-old Willie Cook over 30 years ago.

As a former social work educator I would like to express my opposition to Proposition 1D that will appear on the May 19 special election ballot.

Two great documentaries on the Klamath River have recently been produced: Upstream Battle is touring film festivals with its German producers Ben Kempas and Magdalena Hutter; and author/playwright Stephen Most's River of Renewal took home the Best Documentary Feature at the American Indian Film Festival last fall.

Last summer when the smoke rolled into the Hoopa Valley National Indian Reservation near Humboldt, members of the tribal leadership responded quickly.