Articles by Hank Sims

September 2017

Born and Raised in Humboldt? Stanford’s ‘Voices of California’ Project Wants to Talk With You!

Highway 299 is Open Once Again, and Should Remain So Until the Next Time it Burns or Slides

70-Year-Old Woman and Her Dogs Found Alive and Well After Having Been Trapped in Crashed Car For Four Days

HIGHWAY 299: Here Are the Times the Road is Scheduled to Be Open Today, Along With Instructions

Lightning!

Traveling East? PLAN AHEAD! Highways 299 and 36 Are Each Open Only During Limited Hours, Caltrans Says

Need to Breathe Something Other Than Smoke? The County Has Six Clean-Air Centers Set Up in the Klamath-Trinity Region and on the Coast

(UPDATE) City of Eureka Says: Blue Heron Burned Because Squires Didn’t Pay Prostitute For Oral Sex Received

Drug Task Force Bust Up Rio Dell/Fortuna Narcotics Network; One Arrested for Possession, Sales, Transportation of Heroin, Meth

Highway 299 Still Closed West of Weaverville; Helena Fire Holding at 5,000 Acres, With 130 Structures Damaged or Destroyed

August 2017

HARD CLOSURE: Fire Shuts Down Highway 299 Just West of Weaverville

Public Health: People Who Had Contact With Child Struck by Meningitis Patient Have All Been Notified

Eureka Child Hospitalized With Serious, Contagious Form of Meningitis; People Who May Have Had Contact Are Being Notified

SNOWCAT! Sheriff’s Office Search and Rescue Ops Achieve Fundraising Goal for New Snow-Land Vehicle With $30k Donation From Blue Lake Rancheria

Sheriff’s Office Releases Identity of Man Shot Dead in Eureka Friday Night

BROADWAY SIGN CARNAGE! The Big Roadside Wendy’s Sign Isn’t Looking So Hot This Afternoon

Those People Arrested By the CHP Last Night? They Were Both Wanted as Witnesses in the Upcoming Trial Over the Murder of a 14-Year-Old Boy in Eureka

CHP Patrol Officer Chases Down Felony Warrant Suspect Who Fled on Foot Following Stop; Heroin Discovered

Arrest Made in Eureka Burglary a Week After the Fact, After Victim Recovers Surveillance Tape, Files Police Report and Locates the Suspect

Two Days of Megaraids in the Petrolia Area — Each Centered on a Limited Liability Company — Yield Over 13,000 Plants, Three Tons of Processed Weed, Numerous Environmental Violations

Southern Oregon’s Chetco Bar Fire Tops 100,000 Acres With Zero Percent Containment; Outlying Areas of Brookings Evacuated

EPD: Man Dwelling Near Eureka Slough Bridge Throws Rocks at Cars, Attacks Officers, Gets Tased

Sheriff’s Office to SoHum Burglar, Car Thief: We Have You on Video and Your Days of Freedom Are Numbered

(UPDATES) Former Blue Heron Motel Office Building in Flames

AIR QUALITY ALERT: Officials Warn of ‘Very Unhealthy’ Air Quality Conditions Along the Klamath River as Wildfires Continue to Grow

(PHOTOS, VIDEO) HOW’S YOUR ECLIPSE? Coastal Humboldt is Socked In, But People Are Flocking Inland to Get Views

Inmate Tased After Assaulting Correctional Officers, Two Nurses in Unexplained Attack

Gov. Jerry Brown Commutes Sentence of Woman Serving 25-to-Life for 2001 Eureka Murder

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