Blue Lake Rancheria is the recipient of a CAL FIRE grant, which will allow them to build a regional team of Indigenous women and queer cultural burners. To learn more about the program, we spoke to Karley Rojas, a Native Plant Specialist at  Blue Lake Rancheria. Sigur-Björn reports

Members of the public helped prevent another horrible head-on collision as law enforcement stops a wrong-way driver with spikes.

A new fire erupts within the Orleans Complex Perimeter |

Blue Lake Rancheria sets up a team of female-only cultural burners. |

The EPA Grants the Yurok Tribe Authority to Develop Water Quality Standards on its reservation. |

and, Potters mess up to leave Crabs to face Prune Packers. | And if that last sentence made no sense to you, all will be revealed during Ray Hammil’s Sports Report. |

So hit 'Play' — those stories and more coming up.

Ray Hamill brings us details of all of this week's big local sports stories, including the latest on the Humboldt Crabs, who will play for a league championship on Friday night, as well as why it was a big week for one local American Legion baseball team, who are the 2025 high school athletes of the year and news of one local driver who is enjoying a big summer at the Redwood Acres Raceway.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently approved the Yurok Tribe's application for Treatment as State under the federal Clean Water Act to set and enforce water quality standards on their reservation, marking a major step in tribal sovereignty and environmental protection for the Klamath River after a years-long application process. Nat Cardos reports.

Despite the reopening of the razor clam fishery in Del Norte County after domoic acid levels dropped below federal safety limits, health officials are urging caution as a shellfish advisory warning of dangerous paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) toxins remains in effect. Nat Cardos reports.

Traffic on Highway 101 was snarled following a solo vehicle collision earlier today. Lisa Music reports.