Articles by Hank Sims

October 2017

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

(UPDATES) Arcata’s G Street Closed as Part of Landmark Arcata Presbyterian Church Burns

Sheriff’s Office Rips Out Nearly 12,000 Plants, Finds Enviro Violations Galore in Two-Day Raid

ARCATA POLICE: Internet Rumors Saying That Josiah Lawson’s Friend is Suspected in His Murder are Categorically False, and the Author of These Rumors Knows Nothing

Suspected Hash Lab Explosion West of Willits Blows Hole in Roof of 30,000-Square-Foot Warehouse

Betty Chinn Proposes New Homeless Day Use Center on Wabash; Community Meeting on Project to Be Held Next Week

McGuire Bill Requiring Presidential Candidates to Disclose Tax Returns Heads to Governor’s Desk

Government Railroad Agency Says It’s Still Looking to Bring Trains Back to Humboldt County, Even as its Finances and Fortunes Spiral Downward

Someone Snatched a Little Old Lady’s Purse in the Winco Parking Lot Monday; Eureka Police Tracked Down and Arrested a Suspect Today

Assm. Jim Wood Cautions Pro-Single-Payer Protesters Who Will Demonstrate at His Local Offices Tomorrow: Don’t Expect to Get Everything You Wish For

Sheriff’s Office Seeks Help Identifying Man Found Drowned in the Trinity River Yesterday