A reported attempted kidnapping near Cal Poly Humboldt leads this one after a student allegedly had to escape a moving car, another woman in McKinleyville said she fled an alleged kidnapper and hid in a Blue Lake gas station bathroom, a new abuse charge was added in the heavy foster child death case from 2021, Bailey Blunt’s family is still asking why the man they suspect is living free in Humboldt with no charges filed, legal weed’s long rough slide keeps rattling the local economy, Orick’s tiny school is costing a jaw dropping amount per student while locals argue it still matters, a proposed Amazon facility in McKinleyville is heading to public discussion, a plane with Humboldt ties crashed near Seattle and both people somehow survived, Jared Huffman says he’ll investigate a possible outside buyer for PG&E’s old Eel River dam project, Ferndale’s only grocery store hit a scary rent notice, and toward the lighter end StartUp Humboldt handed out $200,000 to local businesses while Cannifest dropped a pretty loaded Arcata lineup.

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