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Heavy rains inundate county
A truck drives through Sandmine Road near the U.S. Highway 101 intersection on Sunday afternoon.
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Deluge finally tapers
The rain has let up and streams are retreating after a storm dropped near-record amounts of rain over the weekend and spurred emergency warnings for outlying areas of Del Norte County.
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Agreement to take down Klamath dams? Not likely
The Klamath Basin agreement for removal of the river's lower four dams, is 32 pages long.
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Little red caboose
A small piece of Del Norte County's history sits idly at the fairgrounds. In 20 years, what was once part of the Del Norte Railroads has gone from a falling-down shack to an almost complete caboose.
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News of record for Dec. 12-18
Del Norte County Superior Court felony and misdemeanor sentencings for the week of Dec.
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California Coho: Fished Out?
T wo years ago, UC Davis biologist Peter Moyle set out to document the condition of California's salmon and trout.
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The real eel deal
Full disclosure: I don't like the taste of eel. Frankly, I'm not big on salmon, either.
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Letter from Pres.-Elect Kennedy
A few weeks ago, young Bobby Tvedt, son of Mr. and Mrs. Les Tvedt, wrote a letter to Sen.
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Good weather for ducks - not for hunters
There are plenty of ducks on the Pacific Flyway, but the duck season is off to a terrible start anyway.
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Smith River Rancheria
One of Del Norte County's most generous and engaged community outreach groups is the Smith River Rancheria, home base for local members of historic coastal Tolowa Indians.
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Klamath program gets boost
After four years of trying to secure funding, the Head Start program in Klamath is getting new classrooms.
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Delaying Klamath dam removal is criminal
How long do you have to study something? PacifiCorp, the federal government and the states have been studying Klamath dams for nearly a decade and Klamath Fisheries Task Force agencies studied the Klamath River ...
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Obtainable goals on the Klamath River
I have been an advocate of Klamath River dam removal since the early 1960s. When I first became involved, there was distrust and unfriendliness among virtually all the Klamath Basin residents.
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Teaching to the holiday
Thanksgiving means different things to different people, and Del Norte County schoolteachers have to be conscious of that when teaching their students about the holiday.
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Escaping the wave
More than 100 people participated in a tsunami evacuation drill in Klamath on Thursday that officials called a success.
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Farmers evaluate Klamath agreement to remove four dams
Klamath Basin Map Depending on their water source, farmers and ranchers near the California-Oregon border have differing views of a recent decision by Oregon-based hydroelectric power company PacifiCorp to ...
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A framework for dam removal
Since 2004, 26 diverse parties known as the Klamath Settlement Group have worked to develop the Klamath Basin Restoration Agreement built around the simple premise that removal of the four dams preventing fish ...
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Search for fugitive delays students
A search for a fugitive in Klamath delayed a group of after-school program students from Margaret Keating Elementary from getting a ride home Friday evening.
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New Report Foresees a Short Road to Extinction for CA salmon
I recently observed that San Francisco salmon fishermen, despite some relatively good news in an industry that of late has lumbered from one calamity to the next, are still pretty glum these days.
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Klamath ready to rock
Blaring sirens will signal the beginning of a tsunami evacuation drill in Klamath on Thursday that is thought to be the largest of its kind in California, and only the third such event in the lower 48 states.
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