Articles by Hank Sims

June 2017

Humboldt State Vows to Meet Its Paris Accord Climate Change Obligations; Signs Pledge to International Community

May 2017

What Do You Think About Cannabis Tourism? If You Have an Opinion, a Humboldt State Professor Would Like to Hear It

Latest in Long Line of Robbers of the Alliance Road 76 Station Believed to Have Made Getaway in Truck Toting Appliance

Caltrans Relaunches Richardson Grove Project; Agency Issues New Environmental Documentation For Controversial Highway 101 Realignment at the South End of the County

SALMON RUN: Starting Tomorrow, Long-Distance Runners Will Trace the Threatened Fishes’ Natural Path Up the Klamath and Trinity

24-Year-Old Hoopa Woman Arrested in Connection With Yesterday’s Vehicular Assault Near K’ima:w Medical Center

Pine Hill Woman Arrested for Assault After Allegedly Stabbing Significant Other With Kitchen Knife

Deputies Locate Shelter Cove Vacation Home Burglary Suspect, Who is Taken Into Custody After Short Chase

SHERIFF’S OFFICE: Be on the Lookout For These Suspects in a Home Invasion Weed Robbery That Happened Near Redway Four Days Ago

GROUND FLOOR! You Can Buy 100 Shares in a Soap Opera Actor’s New Fortuna Pot Farm For a Penny

CALL HIM ‘YOUR HONOR’: Governor Appoints Gregory Elvine-Kreis — HSU Graduate, Public Defender — to the Humboldt County Bench

A Good Samaritan Disrupted an Armed Robbery Attempt in Hoopa, But the Suspect Managed to Get Away

Eureka Police Assure the Internet That They Are Investigating the Assault of a Zane Student, a Video of Which Lit Up Facebook Over the Weekend

SoHum CHP Seeking Man Who Fled Arrest, Crashed, Was Tased, Then Ran Off Into the Woods on Shelter Cove Road Yesterday

Arcata Police Nab Serial Tree-Mangling Suspect; Four Cherry Trees On the Plaza Among the Victims

Sheriff’s Office Says Missing Person Liz Smith Has Been Found Safe in Del Norte County

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