Articles by Hank Sims

December 2017

KING TIDES COMING! Want to Spend Your New Year’s Day Doing Fun Citizen Science With the City of Arcata?

WE SALUTE GREG BICKEL: Wheels Down for Aerial Deputy With Multifaceted Law Enforcement Career

(UPDATE) Henna-Decorated SoHum Burglary Suspect Sought by Sheriff’s Office

City of Trinidad Issues Statement on Controversial Memorial Lighthouse Project

WATCH: Master Thespian Miles Slattery, Eureka’s Community Services Director, Assembles Cast of Several to Explain His Department’s Recent Name Change

Protesters Climb Trinidad Memorial Lighthouse to Object to Current Relocation Plans; Construction Underway; Sheriff’s Deputies at Scene

Gov. Brown Selects Arcata Teacher to Lead California Arts Council

Suspect in Last Week’s Stabbing of Fields Landing Man Surrenders to Jail Staff

Time to Trash Your Tree! Here is a Growing List of Your Christmas Tree Disposal Options, Some of Which Involve Scouts

High-Speed Motorcycle Chase From Loleta to Fortuna Goes Offroad, Ends With Probationer in Custody

Wanted Oregon Sex Offender, on the Run for Over Two Years, Found in Garberville

Wanted Felon Discovered in Possession of Heroin Following Christmas Foot Pursuit in Eureka, Sheriff’s Office Says

Sheriff’s Office Rescues Man Lost Two Days in the Woods Between Blue Lake and Willow Creek

Arcata K-9 Cop ‘Barron’ Bites Fleeing Felon in the Butt Near Hiller Park

Man Arrested on Charges of Theft, Prowling After Allegedly Stealing a Package From Fortuna Home

Ferndale Man Killed in Yesterday’s Big Rig Crash Near the Humboldt-Mendocino Line

Fortuna Police Arrest Man on Charges of Arranging Meeting With 14-Year-Old for Lascivious Purposes

(UPDATE) NOROVIRUS OUTBREAK SPREADS: Schools Shuttered in Cutten, Fieldbrook, Rio Dell; More May Announce Closure Before Tomorrow

‘A Dynamic Champion for California’s Indigenous Students’: ACLU Honors Yurok Educator With Civil Liberties Award

Sheriff’s Office Identifies Deputy Shot Near Ferndale Sunday Morning

Deputies Seeking Two Men Who Are Believed to Have Swiped a Handgun From a Garberville Business Last Night

Fields Landing Man Wanted for Attempted Murder After Allegedly Stabbing Roommate Last Night

He Spent THREE DECADES in JAIL: Sheriff’s Office Salutes Sgt. Mitch Gratz on the Occasion of His Retirement

Huffman, McGuire Blast Republican ‘Tax Scam’ Bill, Which Congress Passed Today

(UPDATES: Vehicle Found in Ditch) Sheriff’s Deputies Blockading Blue Lake Streets While They Investigate Stolen Vehicle

DHHS on Norovirus Closures at Eureka City Schools, and What to Do When You Get Noro’d

Norovirus Closures Spread; Viral Outbreak Shuts Down Eureka City Schools For the Rest of the Week

Fatal Single-Vehicle Collision North of Willits Last Night; Drug or Alcohol Impairment ‘Considered to be a Factor’

California Highway Patrol Vows to Throw Down ‘Maximum Enforcement’ Against Horrible Holiday Drivers

On Friday Night, a McKinleyville Man Allegedly Took Up a Rifle Against Sheriff’s Deputies

Wanted Felon Arrested While Casing Cars on Humboldt Hill in the Midnight Hour, Sheriff’s Office Says

(UPDATE) FERNDALE SHOOTING: Man Accused of Shooting Deputy is Undocumented Mexican Citizen, Sheriff Honsal Says at Press Conference

CEASE AND DOSIST: The Weed Company Formerly Known as ‘hmbldt’ Has Changed Its Name

61-Year-Old Lake County Man Killed in Single-Vehicle Crash North of Laytonville Yesterday

(UPDATE) Sheriff’s Deputy Shot Near Ferndale Last Night; At Least One Suspect in Custody Following Coppini Road Standoff

Three Arrested in Traffic Stop; ‘Validated Gang Members’ in Possession of Meth, Guns, Ammo, Cash

Yurok Tribe Decries Trinidad Lighthouse Move; Calls Civic Club Action Hasty, Culturally Insensitive

RAILROAD NEWS: Citing ‘Uncertain Future,’ California Transportation Commission Calls for Special Committee to Hash Out What to Do With the North Coast Railroad Authority

Norovirus Outbreak To Close All Three South Bay Union Schools Next Week

City of Eureka to Look at Big, New Subsidized Housing Projects on Myrtle Avenue and Fourth Street, and to Review Waterfront Development Strategy

Del Norte Man Wanted For Threats to Law Enforcement Officers Nabbed After Reporting His Own Wherebouts in Humboldt, Sheriff’s Office Says

64-Year-Old Covelo Man Killed in Single-Vehicle Crash North of Willits Yesterday

Man Just Released From Jail Assaults Woman in Jail Lobby, Sheriff’s Office Says

CORONER: HSU Student Erin Henry Fell to Her Death

Yeah, So Some of This Smoke is Coming From LA After All, it Turns Out

Poor Air Quality in Eureka This Morning Partly Due to a Stolen Vehicle That Was Torched Near Cooper Gulch

Willow Creek Man Found Deceased After Several-Day Search That Followed Domestic Dispute

A Great Big Boom Rattled Eureka Last Night, and Once Again No One Knows Who, What, Why, How or Exactly Where

SHERIFF’S OFFICE: Armed Robbers Made Off With 200 Pounds of Weed Up Titlow Hill Yesterday Morning

Man on Meth in Allard Avenue Mobile Home Park Admits to Firing Shotgun Into the Air, Sheriff’s Office Says