Crescent City

The new documentary out on KEET-TV, the PBS station based in Eureka, explores how young local artists are using their creativity for civic engagement, identity, expression and social change. JPR's Vanessa Finney speaks with the producer/director of the film, Jack Lucido and Grayson Johansen, one of its featured artists.

For years, an organic dairy farm in Del Norte County has claimed their animals were treated humanely. A recent lawsuit alleges otherwise.

Teenagers in trouble will soon be offered an off-ramp to a better life, courtesy of other teens in their community.

A seafood company has ended their ice plant operations at Crescent City’s harbor. But the port has plans to keep fishers afloat.

This November, the Harbor District is the only governing body with contested races in Del Norte County.

Crescent City was an isolated community in 1854, with dense forest all around and its rocky ocean entrance often fogged in. Pack mules traveled over…

The big steel steamship Oregon was sailing from San Francisco to Portland in early March 1905 when fire broke out in the cargo area. The ship with 57…

Transporting logs to the mill was challenging in the days when ox teams dragged timber to the nearest stream for floating most of the way to the mills.…

Northern California’s Crescent City has had its share of turbulent wind and sea weather. It doesn’t normally take the form of hurricanes or cyclones, but…

An authentic 1902 one-room schoolhouse is tucked away on the Del Norte County Fairgrounds in Crescent City, Calif.At the turn of the century, the North…

In May 1939, the Fourth of July committee in Crescent City, Calif., chose pirates as its celebration theme, complete with treasure hunts, parades, water…

Almost as soon as Crescent City, Calif., opened its port, Chinese arrived, looking for gold or working for settlers who preceded them.The Chinese also…