Friday, March 6, 2026, Local News
Players, parents, fans, coaches and officials will be in town this weekend for the 57th annual Crescent City Jaycees Eighth Grade Boys Basketball Tournament, which will be held at various gyms throughout the county. Sixty-four teams from around the region will take part in one of the largest and most prestigious events of its kind on the West Coast.
The community is invited to the 2026 annual LEADN Awards Ceremony, where Del Norte County honors its law enforcement personnel. The event will be held at 6:30 p.m. March 19 at the Betty Green Event Center at Elk Valley Casino. The Law Enforcement Administrators of Del Norte will award individuals from 10 different agencies.
A drive-through lunch fund-raiser is on tap Saturday supporting the Del Norte Sheriff’s Posse and Search and Rescue team. The event will be held at the search and rescue building, 233 E. Washington Boulevard in Crescent City, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Each $15 meal features a sandwich, pasta salad, chips and a beverage.
An investigation is underway in Eureka after two people died and two others were hospitalized after checking into the same motel room several days apart. What was initially thought to be drug overdoses turned out to be carbon monoxide poisoning. The motel, located in the 400 block of Broadway, is closed until identified violations are remedied and inspected, according to the Eureka Police Department.