Somes Bar News

Karuk Tribe member Bob Goodwin shows off the traditional poles that support a dip net used by tribal fishermen to pull salmon from Ishi Pishi Falls on the Klamath River near Somes Bar.

Karuk Tribe member Bob Goodwin shows off the traditional poles that support a dip net used by tribal fishermen to pull salmon from Ishi Pishi Falls on the Klamath River near Somes Bar.

The U.S. Coast Guard assisted with saving two lives Tuesday evening after they received a report of a vehicle that had driven off highway 96 several miles South of Somes Bar and came to rest upside down in the Klamath River 250 feet below.

A 41-year-old Yreka man died and two others received major injuries in a single-vehicle crash south of Somes Bar Tuesday afternoon.