Articles by Hank Sims

August 2017

Sheriff’s Office, CAMP Take Down 8,000 Plants in Two-Day Trespass Grow Operation Near Hoopa, Orleans

(UPDATES) Fire at Manila Homeless Encampment on the Bay Burns Structure to the Ground; Police Respond to Report of Assault at Scene, Find No Suspects

Yurok Tribe Hails New Science Showing Spring-Run Klamath Salmon as Genetically Distinct; Development Could Lead to More Protection for Fish

(UPDATE: BACK) Humboldt Awakes to Another Mass AT&T Internet Outage for the Second Time This Month

Rio Dell Man Airlifted to Redding Following Backwoods Solo-Vehicle Crash

After Just Nine Turbulent Months on the Job, Humboldt County Library Services Director Resigns

Yurok Tribe Honors Rep. Jared Huffman’s Klamath River Advocacy With First-of-its-Kind ‘Partnership’ Award

Suspect in Sunday’s Fatal Hit-and-Run in Laytonville Surrenders to Police

12,000 Acres and Counting Burned in the Six Rivers National Forest; Fires in Orleans, Ruth Areas Still Less Than 50 Percent Contained

Prosecution Enters Long List of Charges in Huge Visser Court Weed Ring Case; Also Seeks to Confiscate $80k

BEWARE: We All Got Suckered By the Cheap Eclipse Glasses on Amazon

Felony Warrant Suspect Smashes Into McK Residence After Chase; Numerous Charges, Including Possession of Gun and Billy Club, Added to His Sheet

‘Suspicious’ Fire Destroys Willow Creek-Area Home This Morning; Investigation Underway

(UPDATE) IT’S NOT JUST YOU: Widespread AT&T, Frontier Internet Outage Hits Humboldt County

(UPDATE) Fire Northwest of Garberville Closes Alderpoint Road; Evacuations Underway

Here are Your Yurok Tribal Council Candidates! Tribal Members: Are You Registered to Vote?

(PHOTOS) Illegal Grows and Tons of Junk Raided on County’s Eastern Edge; Operations Still Ongoing, Sheriff’s Office Says

WE GET NEW POLES: PG&E Foot Crews, Helicopter Will Be Scoping Transmission Lines East Over the Next Few Weeks

Over 600 People Fighting Orleans-Area Lightning Fires; Smoke Pooling Along Klamath; Meeting Tonight at Karuk Headquarters

July 2017

WATCH OUT: The North Coast’s Inland Areas are Going to be Crazily, Dangerously Hot This Week

OBITUARY: Joe Marks Santos, 1919-2017

Brand-Spanking New San Francisco Bay Ferry — the Cetus — Stops in Humboldt Bay on its Maiden Voyage South

SHERIFF’S OFFICE: Here’s What to Do When Scamsters Call You Pretending to be Cops, As They’ve Been Doing Lately

DRIVERS: Start Preparing Now for August’s Highway 36 Roadwork-pocalypse!

(UPDATE) Massive Law Enforcement Raid Going on in Ferndale; Several People Detained While Heavily Armed Officers Search Market Street House

Mendo Cops Make Big Weed Bust on Willits Tribal Land … at the Request of Tribal Officials, Sheriff’s Office Says

Bomb Squad and its Bomb-Bot Make Late Night Call to Midtown Eureka on Report of Weird Object in the Street

Drug Task Force Busts Eureka Man Driving Up 101 With Nearly Three Pounds of ‘Suspected’ Heroin; Investigation Ongoing

Briceland-Based Victim of Serial Ripoffs Catches Suspects on Game Cam; Sheriff’s Office Seeks Public Help in Identifying Suspects

Sheriff’s Office Arrests Man in Hydesville Robbery; Pleads For More Public Involvement in Combating Crime Wave

(UPDATE: VICTIMS’ NAMES RELEASED) Two Killed in Early Morning Crash on Highway 101

Deputies Chase Devil’s Elbow Car Burglary Suspect Into the Brush, Where He Vanishes From Sight

Woman Wounded Near Alderpoint Proves Difficult for Deputies to Locate, Finally Turns Up at Garberville Hospital

CRIME ALERT: A Long Time Ago Someone Allegedly Stole Something at Redwood National Park and Rangers Can’t Find Him. Can You?

OPERATION YUROK: Tribe Launches Annual Marijuana Eradication Effort With Wave of Search Warrants This Morning

Arcata Police: 17-Year-Old Shot at Early Morning Party on C Street

Sheriff’s Office Nabs Two Suspects in String of Trinidad-Area Burglaries

MARINE PATROL! Aquatic Deputies Make Splashy Burglary Collar While Patrolling the Bay in Their Little Skiff

For Fireworks Heads (and Pet-Owners): Arcata Will Have More Fireworks Next Week! Relive Tuesday’s Show With These Photos From Across the Bay

Eureka Erects Giant Fence to Shut Down Homeless Sidewalk Scene Across From Free Meal Dining Facility

Right-Wing Sinclair Broadcast Group Completes Takeover of Local ABC Affiliate Just Hours After John Oliver Makes Fun of It

State Transportation Commission Raises Eyebrow at North Coast Railroad Authority Finances, Asks Perennially Beleaguered Agency to Prepare ‘Shutdown Plan’

June 2017

Pine Hill Man Arrested With Heroin, Scale, Guns, ‘Pay-and-Owe Sheets,’ Drug Task Force Says

SHERIFF’S OFFICE: Sheriff’s Office Launches Investigation of Sheriff’s Office’s Practice of Selling Dead People’s Stuff to Sheriff’s Office Employees

Eureka Probation Stop Yields Heroin For Sale, Weed, Meth and One Re-Arrested Probationer, Cops Say

Firefighters Swarm Harrison Avenue to Undertake Tricky Rescue in Solo-Vehicle, Over-the-Side Crash

Eureka Man Killed in Head-on Collision After Driving Wrong Way on Highway 101 Last Night

Eureka Police Award $25,000 in Money Seized From Drug Dealers to Two Local Organizations Who Want to Keep Kids Off Drugs

As Expected, EPIC and Others Launch New Lawsuit Against Caltrans’ Richardson Grove Improvement Project

ATT’N, WESTSIDE SANGUINE SOCIETY! Natali Has Wanted an ‘I Like Eureka’ Sticker For Over Two Years, and She’s Moving Away in a Week