Articles by Hank Sims
September 2024
In a Special Session, Board of Supervisors Narrowly Votes to ‘Accept the Resignation’ of Aviation Director Cody Roggatz
Trump Vows to Ship Northern California Water to Beverly Hills, Also to Reverse the Flow of Rivers Back Up Into the Hills to Soak the Ground and Thereby Prevent Forest Fire
Twenty-Six Years After They Were Stranded There By Floods, The Balloon Track’s Zombie Trains Are Finally Moving Out — Mostly in Pieces
(PICTURES) A New Monument at Berry Summit Will Honor the Legendary Horse Mountain Skiing Scene
BEER and BALLOT MEASURES! Your Lost Coast Outpost and CalMatters Are Teaming Up to Throw a Study Party for This Year’s Batch of State Propositions, and You Are Invited!
Future California Senator Adam Schiff is in Town
August 2024
A Week of Wildlife Weirdness at the Arcata Marsh
Eureka Will Have to Wait Two More Years Before it Gets Ranked-Choice Voting
Farewell to The Independent, the Free, Locally Owned Newspaper That Has Served Southern Humboldt for Decades
PLANT DISMANTLED: They’ll Be Auctioning Off All Sun Valley Floral Farms’ Infrastructure Next Month
The Outpost Must Say Farewell to Not One But (Soon) Two of Its Star Reporters
LoCO INVESTIGATES: That Kid Playing Violin in the Winco Parking Lot Actually Is Playing His Violin, and He and His Kid Brother Rule
July 2024
SFGate on the International Knuckleheads Who Fly Here to Illegally Climb Hyperion for Social Media Clout
Want to Run For City Council in the Fall? Now’s the Time to Get On It!
TODAY: Mike McGuire is the Governor of the State of California
June 2024
In Its Final Report of the Year, Grand Jury Concludes That the Child Welfare Services Ombudsperson is Falling Short of the Role Defined For it When the County Settled a Big State Lawsuit
(UPDATE: PHOTOS OF THE CRASH) Airplane Makes Emergency Landing in the Humboldt Bay National Wildlife Refuge Across From CR
(PHOTOS) Another Urban Bear Mama and Cub Spotted in Arcata This Evening
INTRODUCING: The Humboldt Handy! Your Go-To Spot When You Need a Plumber, Electrician, Roofer, Painter, or Just About Any Kind of Building Contractor
(VIDEO) There are Bears in the Tree By Pierson’s
Fatal Single-Vehicle Car Crash Into Bayside Grange Early This Morning; Power Out Across Bayside, Sunny Brae
May 2024
I Street Closed in Downtown Eureka Following Huge, Multivehicle Crash; Pedestrian Struck
¿HISPANOHABLANTE? El Lost Coast Outpost Ahora Está Disponible en Español
NEVER A BOTHER: Florence Parks on How to be There for Kids in Crisis
April 2024
(UPDATE: NIGHT DEMONSTRATION) Calm Before Storm? It Was Washing Day at the Cal Poly Humboldt Occupation on its One-Week Anniversary
(PHOTOS/VIDEO) Protesters Open Cal Poly Humboldt’s Siemens Hall After Day of Tension Waiting For a Raid That Has Yet to Come
(UPDATING) Deputies Shoot Man Believed to Have Shot Elderly Woman in Cutten This Morning; Fern and Cedar Streets Closed
The Outpost Must Say Farewell to Longtime Reporter Stephanie McGeary
(UPDATING) Major Pro-Palestine Protests at Cal Poly Humboldt Provoke Massive Police Response; Protesters Occupy Siemens Hall; Reports of Violent Force Between Activists and Law Enforcement
Have You Written an Obituary Recently? A Humboldt Expat Studying at the University of Chicago Would Like to Have a Conversation With You About the Person You Eulogized
A Local Child Who Runs Wants Other Children to Know That There is a Way to Get Free Running Shoes if Their Families Can’t Afford Them
PLOUGHSHARES to SWORDS: Cal Poly Humboldt Welcome Sign Weaponized in the Struggle for Middle East Peace
The Great Redwood Trail Agency Has Unveiled Its Draft Master Plan, and it Has Some Big Dreams for Alderpoint, Among Other Things
March 2024
ELECTION TALLY UPDATE: Almost All the Votes Are Counted Now, and the People Who You Thought Were Winning Did In Fact Win
ELECTION TALLY UPDATE: About 6,800 More Votes Counted; Nothing Has Changed Except There Are Even More Ballots Left to Count Than Had Been Previously Supposed
Activists to Turn Up Heat on Scotia Biomass Power Plant at Energy Authority’s Community Advisory Committee Meeting Tonight
County’s Environmental Health Division Shuts Down Moonstone Grill Due to Rat Infestation
IT’S ELECTION NIGHT! We’ll be Updating Here With Results and Pictures From Candidates’ Victory Parties, if We Can Find Any
February 2024
In This Time of Cold and Rainy Weather, the Rescue Mission Could Use Some Help
Remember — Fernbridge is Gonna Be Offline Tonight and Most of the Weekend
Here is a New State Law That Will Drive Some Eureka Drivers (and Car-Parkers) Absolutely Insane
JUDGE RACE: Deputy District Attorney Launches Write-In Bid; Van Dyke Issues Statement on Her Facial Paralysis
Supervisor Forums! The KEET/League of Women Voters Debates are In the Books, and Here’s a Place for You to Catch Up on What Was Said
Pro-Palestinian Activist Charged With Vandalism, Making a False Police Report in Connection With October Incident, Cal Poly Humboldt Says
It’s ELECTION LIMERICK Time Once Again! Please Send Us Your Letters of Support For Local Candidates and Measures, But Only in the Form of a Limerick
PISTOLS for TWO: An Exchange of Letters on the Eureka Housing for All Initiative and the Outpost’s Coverage Thereof
January 2024
(UPDATES) FLOODING! The Water is Starting to Drown Roadways in the County, and It’ll Probably Get Worse
Here Comes the Atmospheric River! Batten Down, Get Ready For Strong Wind and Heavy Precipitation
(PHOTOS) The Biggest Federal Grant in Humboldt History? Huffman, Assorted Worthies Gather on Woodley Island to Celebrate $426 Million in Infrastructure Funding for Offshore Wind
Karen Diemer, Arcata’s City Manager for Nearly the Last 10 Years, Announces Her Impending Retirement
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