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The Yurok Tribal Council selected Yurok Information Service Department Director, Jessica Engle to serve as the Yurok Telecommunications Corporation’s Chief Executive Officer.
As chief judge of the Yurok Tribal Court, Abinanti wears no robe. On this day, she's in jeans and cowboy boots, her silver hair spilling down the back of a black down vest.
The program was created by Yurok Tribal Chief Judge Abby Abinanti. "I don't think humans respond well to punishment and consequence," Abinanti said. "I think they respond well to our approach." ...
Yurok Tribal Police Chief Greg O’Rourke stands on the bridge where Emmilee Risling, 32, was last seen before she disappeared in October 2021 in Humboldt County.
As Chief Justice of the Yurok Tribe, I know how serious the problem is. We can trace the deep-rooted violence in Native communities from the invasion only 175 years ago, ...
The county's in charge of that but we're not going to give the county any extra money,'" said Yurok Tribe Chief Prosecutor Rosemary Deck. There's no accurate count on the number of missing or ...
In this aerial image taken from a drone, the city of Klamath, Calif., home of the tribal headquarters for the Yurok Tribe, dots the side of U.S. Highway 101 at sunrise on Jan. 21, 2022.
ABOUT THE DEAL Western Rivers Conservancy (WRC), the Yurok Tribe, the California Wildlife Conservation Board (WCB) and the California State Coastal Conservancy (CSCC) completed the largest single ...
“As the Yurok Fire Department Engine 9434 crew was packing up to return home from the Eaton Fire, the U.S. Forest Service reassigned the tribal firefighters to the fast-growing Hughes Fire in ...
Roughly 73 square miles of ancestral homelands once belonging to California’s Yurok Tribe have been returned to them.
It's being called the largest land return deal in California's history. Yurok Fisheries Department Director Barry McCovey tells NPR's Scott Detrow what it means for the Yurok Tribe and for the land.