Articles by Hank Sims

October 2017

There Will Be a Controlled Burn at Potawot Village This Weekend, and the Smoke Might Spread

Redwood Valley Oldster Shot at Firefighters Who Parked on His Property During Catastrophic Wine Country Blaze, Mendo Sheriff Says

AT&T Confirms Last Night’s Outage Caused by Cut Fiber; Service Restored Just After 10:30 p.m.

AT&T and Frontier Sure Seem to be Down Again in a Catastrophically Breached Fiber-Optic Line Kind of Way

(UPDATE: FOUND) Sheriff’s Office Searching For Missing Cutten 16-Year-Old With Grave Medical Condition

In the Wake of the Devastating Wine Country Fires, Humboldt to Hold Series of Wildfire Prep Meetings

Can We Fix Humboldt County’s Airports? New Report From County’s Consultant Recommends Radical Changes

Sequoia Park is Closed Today While Crews Take Out Some Problem Trees, But Don’t Forget About the Big Park Reenvisioning Event Tomorrow!

Mendocino County Sheriff Identifies All Eight People Killed in Redwood Valley Fire, With Help From Assm. Jim Wood

DROP, COVER and HOLD ON! It’s Just About Time for the Great California Shakeout!

Supervisor Virginia Bass Officially Kicks Off 2018 Re-Election Campaign

That Hubbub in Arcata Last Night? The Sheriff’s Office Was Arresting Two Kids For Homicide

Catastrophic Natural Disaster? There’s an App For That! Sheriff’s Office Asks Residents to Register With Their Alert/Information System

Last Night’s Fire By Zane Middle School Held to a Quarter-Acre; No Obvious Cause Discovered

Drug Task Force Busts Fortuna Mom (and Boyfriend) With Meth, Heroin, Weed, Scale and Packaging Materials

Another ‘Red Flag Warning’ Issued for Dangerous Fire Conditions; Evacuation Orders Lifted for Much of Mendo’s Redwood Valley

INTERNET WOES CONTINUE: Some Businesses, Including the Check-In Counter at the Airport, Are Still Mysteriously Disconnected

STOP DOING THIS: McKinleyville Dirtbags Continue to Disrupt Coast Guard Helicopter Flights With Their Stupid Laser Pointers

Entire Town of Calistoga Under Mandatory Evacuation Orders as Tubbs Fire Grows

With Its Weed Business Booming, City of Rio Dell Makes Pitch for Cannabis Tax on November Ballot

Eureka Man Fires AR-15 in Downtown Petaluma; Convicted Felon Disarmed by Citizen, Rearrested, Police Say

Firefighters Are Having the Damndest Time Getting to a Small Blaze in the Dunes This Morning

AT&T Comes Back Online; ‘Red Flag Warning’ Still in Effect for Much of California

Two Years Ago, AT&T Promised to End Mass Telecommunication Outages. How’s That Working Out?

CALTRANS: Highway 101 is Open Again, and Traffic is Flowing in Both Directions

HIGHWAY 101 SOUTH OF WILLITS: Still Closed by Wildfire

Someone Killed Two Small Fawns Near Centerville Beach for No Reason, and Game Wardens Would Like to Know Who

MENDO SHERIFF: One Fatality Reported as a Result of Redwood Valley Wildfire; Local State of Emergency Declared

AT&T, Frontier Internet/Cell/Phone Service Down, Almost Certainly Due to Fiber Meltage From Mendo, Sonoma Fires

WILDFIRES TO THE SOUTH: Highway 101 Closed Between Willits and Ukiah; Overnight Wildfires Put Large Swaths of Mendo, Lake and Sonoma Counties Under Evacuation

North Coast Railroad Authority, a State Agency, Will Ask U.S. Supreme Court to Rule That It is Not Bound By State Environmental Law

Eureka Police, County Health Win Major Plaudits for Devil’s Playground Eviction at International Problem-Oriented Policing Conference

Sheriff’s Office Investigating Death of 68-Year-Old Dinsmore Man as Possible Homicide

(UPDATES) Redwood Acres Locked Down, Harris Street Closed in Both Directions as Emergency Personnel Try to Reach Suicidal Subject in Trailer Park

Eureka Redistricting Committee Selects Map Drawn by Anonymous LoCO User as Basis for City’s New ‘True Ward’ System

Garberville Sanitary District Sez: Dudes, We Don’t Have Enough Municipal Water to Feed All Your Grow Ops

This St. Joe’s Nurse is En Route to Puerto Rico, and You Can Help Her Help People

September 2017

Huffman Reintroduces Bill That Would Expand Yurok Tribe Reservation, Acquires Republican Co-sponsor

Karuk Tribe Picks Up $100k PG&E Climate Change Grant to Fund Traditional, Prescribed-Burn Forest Management

PG&E Crews Find Body in the Forest Near College of the Redwoods

Yurok Tribe: Lower Klamath Contains Record-Breaking Levels of Liver-Killing Biological Toxin, Despite Last Winter’s Heavy Rains

City Puts Brakes on Homeless Day Center at Runeberg Hall, Solicits Other Locations for Project

(UPDATE) Two ‘Armed and Dangerous’ Men Sought in String of SoHum Marijuana Robberies

Welcome to Welcome to Willits! New Indie Slasher Flick Combines Meth, Growers, Psychopathic Aliens and Willits

District Attorney Maggie Fleming to Announce Reelection Campaign Next Week; Candidate Touts Record, Endorsements

Big Immigrant Rights Rally at Humboldt Courthouse This Morning; Supervisors Meeting Briefly Disrupted

Brief Scare in Ridgewood Heights: Streets Closed, Elementary School on Lockdown as Armed, Disturbed Man Makes Threats

(PHOTOS) Fleeing From Cops, Man Carjacks Woman at Gunpoint at Bayshore Mall; Police Trying to Identify Suspect

Two People Shot in Hoopa Carjacking Sunday Morning; One Man Arrested Following Investigation

One Man Badly Injured in Arcata Church Arson Fire Last Night; Police Seeking Suspect Who Lit Flammable Substance Where Victim Was Sleeping