Articles by Hank Sims
May 2017
After Extensive Search, Family Friends Find Body of SoHum Pilot Who Crashed Into the Eel Nearly Two Weeks Ago
Bomb Squad Blows Up Suspicious Device Near Eureka Mall
MORE RAIN COMING! It’s Gonna Be Wild and Wet Tonight and Tomorrow, After Which We May Start to See Something Like ‘Summer’ For a While
Accused Shelter Cove Murderer Eric Lively Pleads Not Guilty; Friends and Family of Victim Show Up to Court
Fourth Street Briefly Closed as Eureka Police Investigate Report of Shotgun Brandished at Old Town Motel
Eureka City Officials Upbraid North Coast Railroad Authority Over Its ‘Crime Magnet’ of an Abandoned Office Building, Slap Rail Agency With $18,000 in Fines
JUDGE: Marci Kitchen Will Stand Trial for Vehicular Manslaughter, DUI Resulting in Death, and Fleeing the Scene of a Crime
Theft Investigation in Rancho Sequoia Comes Up Empty, Apart From Accidental Discovery of Unpermitted Megagrow
ATT’N GROWERS! The County Will Be Holding a Pesticide/Rodenticide Workshop to Help You Learn How to Use Poisons Correctly
A Fancy European Cruise Ship Was Going to Call on Humboldt Bay Yesterday, But Naaah
Late Night Kitchen Fire in Eureka Apartment Building Displaces Residents
From DHHS: These Wonderful People Adopted a Girl One Month Before Her 18th Birthday
CHP Rescues 16-Year-Old Kid Who Slid Off the Road in the Deep Boondocks in the Middle of the Night, Discover He is a Missing Person From Montana
Judge Dismisses Case Against Kyle Zoellner, McKinleyville Man Arrested in Stabbing Death of HSU Student David Josiah Lawson
UPDATE: Trinidad Man Arrested in Connection With This Morning’s Fatal Hit-and-Run; CHP Still Looking For Dark Blue Truck
(UPDATE) Pedestrian Killed By Hit-and-Run Driver Near the Airport Last Night; Police Seeking Suspect With Damaged Vehicle
Homicide in Shelter Cove: Police Investigating Fatal Traffic Collision That Was Deemed ‘Intentional’
BIPARTISAN GOOD FEELS! Hear Rep. Jared Huffman, Podcaster, Do the Kumbaya With Republican Congressman Mark Sanford of South Carolina!
It’s Burn Permit Season! Your Winter of Backwoods Disposal-by-Flame Anarchy is Officially Over, Calfire Says
Think Your Nonprofit Can Keep Kids Off Drugs? The Eureka Police Department Wants to Give $20,000 of the Dealers’ Money to You
April 2017
101 UPDATE: Caltrans Has Moved the Earth! Highway to Open This Evening, If All Goes Well
Do You HATE Your TERRIBLE JOB? There Might Well be Options Available for You at Next Week’s Career Fair
Alliance Road Gas Station Robbed Early This Morning; Arcata Police Seeking Suspect
Gonsea Apologizes to Customers, Promises to Maintain High Health Standards Going Forward
THAT WAS QUICK! Highway 101 Closed Again at Leggett Due to Rock Re-Slide, Caltrans Says
Jury Finds Fortuna House Burglary Duo Guilty as Charged, DA Says; They’re Looking at Up to Six Years and Possibly a Bit More
Highway 101 at Leggett is Open
(UPDATES) SHOOTING IN RIO DELL: Two People Reported Shot at Caltrans Facility on Eeloa Drive This Morning; Numerous Law Enforcement Agencies Investigating
Caltrans is Looking to Get One Lane of 101 Open This Evening
WARNING! A Big, Fast Blast of Water is Going to be Sent Down the Trinity Tomorrow; High Flows Will Last a Week
Four Eureka TV Stations Were Just Sold to a Big Conservative Media Conglomerate; Deal Follows Easing of FCC Rules Yesterday
HIGHWAY 101 UPDATE: Caltrans Says It’s Shooting For ‘Mid-to-Late Next Week’ to Reopen to Through Traffic at Leggett
COUNTY GOVERNMENT SAYS: We’re Not Gonna Let You Take Bell Springs (or Any Other Local Road) as a Detour Around the Big 101 Slide
Santa Rosa Man Sought for Attempted Murder at Weed Grow on Round Valley Tribal Land, Mendo Sheriff’s Office Says
Jail Records Reveal Name of Suspect in Fatal Arcata Stabbing
(UPDATE) Rockslide Closes Highway 101 Near Leggett; No Estimated Time of Reopening
Humboldt State Cuts Back on Childcare Services; Will Shutter 10th Street Toddler/Preschool Center
Eureka Police Stalk, Pounce Upon and Arrest Hoopa Man Wanted for Assaulting, Threatening to Kill Ex-Wife
(UPDATES) Standoff in Fortuna: SWAT Team Staged On Kenmar Road After Driver of Stolen Car Flees Into Home
Humboldt’s Black-Market Pills and Heroin Could be Laced With a Super-Deadly Compound, DHHS Warns
Heads Up! Highway 299 Will be Closed for a Few Hours Tomorrow as Caltrans Blows More Stuff Up at Big French Creek
ONE LAW AT A TIME: Petaluma Man Arrested in Downtown Garberville For Driving Without a License, Carrying 23 Pounds in the Back Seat
Humboldt County Board of Supervisors Issues Public Statement Defending Its Embattled Public Defender, Whom It Has Decided to Continue to Defend From the Public
The Eureka Waterfront Trail Should be All Done by the End of the Year, City Staffers Say
Garage Fire in Henderson Center Prompts Store Evacuation
Humboldt County Soldier Dies in Texas; Family Holding Memorial This Weekend
DHHS Hires New Social Worker to Focus on Eureka’s Homeless, Liaise With Old Town Beat Cops
Police Searching West End Road Area With Helicopters, Dogs for Man Who Fled From Reported Collision, Fight
Dinsmore Man Pleads Guilty to Wrecking the Environment for His Megagrow; Could Face Four and a Half Years in the Clink, DA Says
Oregon Bank Robbery Suspects Nabbed in Fortuna, Thanks to Citizen Tip
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