Articles by Ryan Burns
August 2025
Long-Delayed Habit Burger Is, In Fact, Still Coming to Eureka, as Is a LOCAL Smashburger Joint
Cooley Out: Humboldt County’s Latest Director of Aviation Lasted Barely Two Months
(VIDEO) Locals Have VERY Close Encounter With Mountain Lion in Arcata Community Forest
Providence’s Effort to Back Out of Emergency Abortion Care Agreement Would Put Humboldt Women ‘Back in Harms’ Way,’ AG’s Office Argues in Latest Court Filing
Blue Lake Recall Effort Falls Short for Two Council Members, But Election Will Proceed for Scafani
Lawsuit Could Force Humboldt County to Regulate Groundwater Pumping in the Eel River Valley
Blue Lake Recall Proponents Submit Signatures to City Hall, But Did They Gather Enough to Trigger an Election?
David Lindberg, Local Water District Board Member, Killed in Motorcycle Collision With a Deer on Hwy. 36
July 2025
The Public Defender’s Office is Overworked, Underfunded and Housed in a Truly Shitty Old Building, Civil Grand Jury Report Finds
Duffy Aims to Calm Turmoil in Blue Lake; City May Have Violated Open Meeting Law Again, Expert Says
Pedestrian Dies After Being Struck By a Humboldt Transit Authority Bus in Valley West
Blue Lake City Council Set to Hire Former County Supervisor Jill Duffy as New Interim City Manager
Hospice of Humboldt Just Doubled Its Capacity for Inpatient Care, and It Aims to Double Palliative Care By Next Year
Local Bare-Knuckle Fighter Ryan Petersen Looks to Go 3-0 at Main Event Tonight in Philly
Humboldt’s Civil Grand Jury Issues Reports on the County’s Unfunded Pension Liabilities, Animal Rescue Network, Inmate Voting Rights and More
Under Pressure From the State, Blue Lake City Council Adopts an Updated Housing Element; PLUS: New Councilmember Appointed
Blue Lake’s Ex-Mayor Wants Most of the City Council Recalled, But First She Wants Them to Appoint Her to Join Them.
‘It’s Just Gone’: GOP Funding Cuts for Public Media Pose Existential Threat to KEET-TV, Station’s GM Says
Humboldt County Asks U.S. Supreme Court to Deny Review of Cannabis Fine Case
Amid Controversy, Trinidad City Council Narrowly Opts to Pursue a Study on an Alternate Water Supply
Stobaugh’s Release Denied: Judge Reverses Previous Order, Saying Serial Rapist Remains a Threat to Public
Witnesses Testify That Sexually Violent Predator Richard Stobaugh Possessed Child Porn While Confined in State Hospital
‘Devastating’: Local Health Care Leaders and Organizations React to the Passage of Trump’s Big Bill
Trinidad to Reconsider Joining Engineering Study for Water Pipeline Extension as Rancheria Connection Project Moves Forward
Meredith Matthews Leaving Executive Director Gig at Arcata Chamber to Lead Humboldt Lodging Alliance
June 2025
CHP Officer Fatally Shoots a Blood-Covered Man Who ‘Aggressively’ Charged Officers With a Knife, Agency Reports
State Threatens Blue Lake With Hefty Fines and Legal Action for Failure to Adopt a Compliant Housing Element
Eureka City Schools Approves $4M Sale of Jacobs Campus for New CHP Headquarters
Blue Lake City Council Nixes Agreement With Energy Developer for Controversial Battery Storage Facility
The State Wants to Secure an Exclusive Right to Buy the Vacant Jacobs Campus From Eureka City Schools for $4M
‘Know Your Rights’: Centro del Pueblo Hosting Assembly in Arcata Tonight in Response to L.A. Immigration Raids
New Residential Detox Center Planned at Former Hartsook Inn Property Near Richardson Grove
Attorney General Says Providence is Trying to ‘Shirk Its Duty’ to Follow the Law In Emergency Abortion Care Suit
Climate Change and Tariffs are Jacking Up Costs for Local Coffee Roasters and Dick Taylor Craft Chocolates
[UPDATED] Blue Lake City Council Scrutinizes City’s Involvement in Partially Completed Bike and Skate Park
May 2025
BREAKING: Blue Lake City Councilmember Christopher Firor Abruptly Resigns
Blue Lake City Council Approves Nine-Month Timeline to Reach Compliance With State Housing Law
SERVED: Three Blue Lake Council Members Were Handed Recall Notices at Tonight’s Meeting
Former Head of St. Joseph Hospital’s Open Heart Program Doesn’t Appreciate Being Blamed for Reduction in Services
Ospreys Built a Nest Atop Electrical Equipment at PG&E’s Humboldt Generating Station. The Utility Wants to Move It Without Harming the Birds
DA’s Office Will Not Charge Man Who Drove With Unrestrained Toddler on Truck Flatbed, Leading to Death
[UPDATED] There Will Be No Horse Racing at This Year’s Humboldt County Fair
Blue Lake City Council Finalizes Separation Agreement With Former City Manager Mandy Mager, Appoints Finance Manager Dani Burkhart as Acting Replacement
Judge Denies St. Joseph Health’s Motion to Dismiss State Lawsuit Over Emergency Abortion Care
With the City Manager’s Abrupt Exit, Blue Lake Residents Mount Recall Effort Against Three Council Members
Placement Hearing for Sexually Violent Predator Delayed by Missed Filing Deadline; Prosecutor Alleges Stobaugh Possessed Child Pornography in State Hospital
Administrators, Teachers and Staff in Klamath-Trinity Allege Fiscal Mismanagement as Schools Face Possible Funding Cuts from Trump Administration
April 2025
A Major Cascadia Zone Earthquake Could Cause Much of Coastal Humboldt to Rapidly Drop Into the Sea, New Study Finds
Voters Approved a New One-Cent Countywide Sales Tax. Here’s How the Supervisors Decided to Allocate It.
PBS NewsHour Reports From Eureka on the Limits of Reproductive Health Care at Catholic-Run Hospitals
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