Articles by Hank Sims

April 2018

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

CR-azy Deal! New Full-Time College of the Redwoods Students Pay NO Tuition Next Year

PG&E Sending In the Helichoppers to Restore Power to Backwoods Humboldters, Mendonesians

Body Found on South Jetty Last Year Identified as 47-Year-Old Man Last Seen in Alderpoint

Highway 101 — Snowbound! Northern Mendo is Getting Socked In Right Now

Two New Weed Stores on Eureka’s Fourth Street? City Council Set to Move Forward at Next’s Week’s Meeting

February 2018

Fire in McK Safeway Storeroom Last Night Kept in Check by Onsite Sprinkler System

Yurok Tribe Acquires Thousands of Acres of Blue Creek Watershed From Green Diamond; Will Manage Land to Restore Ecosystem

Late Night Home Invasion Robbery in McKinleyville; Suspects Believed to Have Stolen Weed, Arc Welder, Sheriff’s Office Says

No Tall Ships This Year! Lady Washington, Hawaiian Chieftan Skip Humboldt Due to Excessive Silt

SNO-CAT RESCUE! Sheriff’s Office Deploys in the Middle of the Night to Save Errant Snowmobiler