Articles by Hank Sims
April 2018
One Arrested After Reports of ‘Car Prowling’ in Myrtletown Area This Morning; Two Other Suspects Flee, Sheriff’s Office Says
D.C. UPDATE: Rep. Jared Huffman Says That Trump Appears ‘Very Close’ to Firing Robert Mueller, Predicts Constitutional Crisis
Fateful Hearing on Klamath River Water Releases in San Francisco Today; Tribal Members, Upstream Farmers Caravaning to Federal Courthouse
SURVEY TIME! The North Coast Stormwater Coalition Wants YOU to Help It Help You Clean Up Our Waterways
HSU BUDGET BLOODBATH: $9 Million Cut Over Next Two Years; President Vows to Prioritize Students and Classes, Close Third Street Gallery
Shows Will Go on at the Mateel (For Now), Says Board President, Despite Suspension Order From California Attorney General’s Office
Home Invasion Weed Robbery Reported in Shelter Cove; Suspects Said to Have Stolen Cash, Phones, Packaged Cannabis
Eureka Police Look to Beef Up Presence on Waterfront, in Parks; Starts Process of Hiring for New Ranger Position
(PHOTOS) That Big Hole in Loleta’s Eel River Drive Has Opened Up Again, and This Time it Swallowed a Car
Heroin Bust in Hoopa; Deputies Arrest Two on Charges of Possession For Sale
Fleeing SoHum Murder Suspect Eludes Capture Yet Again; Associate Taken Into Custody
Attempted Murder Suspect Taken Into Custody After Wild Chase Down 101, Mattole Road
BOAT on FIRE! Commercial Fishing Vessel Catches Flame Off Table Bluff; Sector Humboldt Bay Badasses Speed to Rescue by Sea and by Air
Tempest! Gusts! Rain! More Rain! Get Ready for the Big ATMOSPHERIC RIVER That is About Blow and/or Wash Us All Away
D.C. UPDATE: Rep. Huffman Envisions the Future of the Eel River, Defends His Endorsement of Ryan Sundberg, Trash-Talks the LoCO Commentariat
(UPDATING) Police at Winship School This Morning, Evidently in Response to Frightening Statements Made on Social Media
56-Year-Old Eureka Man Killed in Solo Vehicle Crash on 299 Last Night
DEMOCRACY Needs YOU! Humboldt County Looking to Hire More People to Run the Polls This Election Year
Los Angeles Man Caught After McK Weed Deal-Turned-Armed Robbery, Sheriff’s Office Says
BEWARE HIGHWAY 36! A New Round of Roadwork Is Going to Shut This Puppy Down Between Bridgeville and Dinsmore Most Days
Community Celebration of Life For Herrmann Spetzler, Visionary Health Care Leader, This Afternoon in Arcata
Jail Inmate Assaults Correctional Deputy; Victim Taken to St. Joe’s, Treated and Released
March 2018
Hoopa Valley Tribe Endorses Supervisor Ryan Sundberg, After Having Previously Endorsed Challenger Steve Madrone
FBI Indicts Humboldt Man on 2016 Stickup Spree; Four Banks, One Gas Station Hit
Eureka Inn’s Bristol Rose Restaurant Cleared to Reopen Over a Month After Health Inspectors Shut it Down
Tragic Mendocino Coast Car Crash Monday; Five Members of Washington Family Killed, Three Missing
‘ONLY’ A TEST! All Simulated Tsunami Hell is About to Break Loose, as County Tests Emergency Response Network
EPD Arrests Two on Drugs, Firearms Charges
Three Arrested During Investigation Into Fleeing SoHum Murder Suspect Zachary Harrison
LAST CHANCE GRADE: State Chips in Another $5 Million for Plan to Bypass Failing Stretch of Highway 101
COLD and WET: Snow Flurries Coming! National Weather Service Expects Plenty of Fresh Powder Above 2,500 Feet Tonight
Drug Task Force Finds Three Pounds of Meth, Stolen Firearm in Travel Trailers Near Fernbridge
(UPDATE) Mass Power Outage in Hoopa, Orleans Closes School in the Klamath-Trinity Area Today
Fire Breaks Out at Abandoned School Buildings Near Alice Birney Campus
Sheriff’s Office Busts Up Massive Orick BHO Lab; 586 Pounds of Concentrate, Two Tons of Trim Confiscated
Drug Task Force Busts Eureka Man Holding Half a Pound of Heroin on Rohnerville Road
Foundering Mateel Community Center Cuts Deal With High Times to Produce Reggae on the River
Eureka NAACP Scorns Arcata Councilmember’s Use of the Phrase ‘Lynch Mob’; Calls for Winkler’s Colleagues to Admonish Him
DC UPDATE, w/ REP. JARED HUFFMAN: Inside the Crazy World of Omnibus Budget Bills, and the Possibility of Another Government Shutdown
Man Stabbed in the Leg on Wabash Last Night, But Didn’t Wish to Cooperate With Investigation
Cops Raid Notorious Ranch in the Arcata Bottoms; Rancher Ray Christie Arrested at the Scene
The McKinley Statue is a Cheap Tchotchke, and We Shouldn’t Feel Bad About Tossing it in the Trash
Arcata City Council to Hold Mega-Meeting Next Week to Ask Itself Whether it Should Ask Voters Where They Would Most Like to See the McKinley Statue Moved To (Including Where it Is)
It’s Official: Sen. Mike McGuire Introduces ‘Great Redwood Trail Act’
All the Fight Has Gone Out of the North Coast Railroad Authority
Arcata Police Follow Trail of Stolen Goods to Suspect’s Hidin’ Shed; Foot Chase Ensues
ATTENTION SHELTER COVE: Here Are the Days You Will Hear Your Cool New Tsunami Siren Blare!
(UPDATE) END OF THE LINE? State Senator Mike McGuire Drafting Legislation to Dissolve North Coast Railroad Authority, Form ‘Great Redwood Trail Agency’ to Manage Humboldt, Mendocino Assets
DC UPDATE: Talking Impeachment, Corruption, Trade Wars and More With Rep. Jared Huffman
Felony Warrant Suspect Caught Shoplifting at 1 A.M. Today, Sheriff’s Office Says