Articles by Hank Sims

January 2016

If You Want to Be a Bookkeeper, Landscaper or Construction Worker, the County Can Hook You Up With Training

Walnut Drive Closed After Bad Two-Vehicle Crash

YOU AIN’T GOING TO REDDING RIGHT NOW: Rockslide Closes Highway 299 at Junction City For the Next Few Hours

Henderson Street to be Closed for the Next 6-12 Hours After Crash; Possible Power Outage Coming

EARTHQUAKE! Li’l 4.5 Shaker Ushers in 2016

(UPDATED) Standoff on Broadway; Eureka Police Surround El Milagro Rancho Viejo Market With Guns Drawn

Fortuna Motorcyclist Takes Cops on High Speed Chase in the Wee Hours of 2016, is Arrested on Bevy of Charges

December 2015

(UPDATED) Fire at Ridgewood’s Greenlot Nursery

Cub Scouts Stand Ready to Haul Away Your Old Christmas Tree

Dumpster Fire at Bayfront One, Garage Fire in Myrtletown Keeps Humboldt Bay Fire Busy

Infant Suffers Major Injuries in Highway 101 Crash Last Night

An Accidental Activist Driver Took Down a Safety Corridor Billboard This Morning

Eureka Police to Push Palco Marsh Campers Back From Foot of Del Norte; Protest Scheduled for Tomorrow Morning

Eureka Police — With Help From Sole Savers — Take Unpermitted Car-Borrower Into Custody at Safeway

Sheriff’s Office Tries One More Time to Stop People Going to Kneeland for the Snow

McK House Alarm Leads Sheriff’s Deputies to Big Indoor Grow

Commercial Burglary Suspect Popped Popcorn and Took a Nap Mid-Theft, Fortuna Police Say

Christmas Morning House Fire Claims Life of Pet Bird, Frog

Couple Mace Good Samaritan, Make Off With Wallet and Phone, Sheriff’s Office Says

(UPDATED) Two People Stabbed in Separate Incidents in Hoopa, McKinleyville

SoHum’s Most Wanted! Garberville Sheriff’s Office Substation Knows What It Wants For Christmas…

Stolen Vehicle Takes Fortuna Police On High-Speed Chase to Hydesville and Back; Driver Arrested, Passengers Detained

WHITE CHRISTMAS: Christmas Eve Eve Will Bring Inches of Snow Down to 2,000 Feet, National Weather Service Predicts

(PICS/VIDEO) Sector Humboldt Bay Rescues Marooned Hunters on 51st Anniversary of Deadly ’64 Flood

(UPDATED) Kia-Driving Couple Currently on Mass Shoplifting Spree, Warns EPD

Elk River Road Goes Underwater Again. What About You? Are You Underwater?

Yurok Tribe Passes First-Ever Tribal Ordinance Banning GMO Crops and Salmon

(UPDATE: FOUND!) 70-Year-Old Dementia Patient Missing in the Arcata Area

Fortuna Police Foil Salon Burglary When Suspect Spotted With Mismatched Shoes

FLOOD ADVISORY: Tons and Tons of Rain Will Fall; Expect Some of It to Clog the Pipes

Revolver Stolen in Florida Two Decades Ago Emerges, Brandished, in Fortuna Bar

Stolen Car Twofer at Downtown Fortuna Gas Station

Multiagency Rescue Operation on Humboldt Bay for Disabled Boat

At Ease, Eureka! That Unholy Caterwauling Was Only Cops Going Christmas Shopping

Local Woman Busted With 180 Pounds Near Kansas City, Platte County Sheriff’s Office Reports

Cackle Along With Plaza Bystanders at This Rare Repeat Cold-Cocking

House on Fire in King Salmon; Humboldt Bay Firefighters at the Scene

THE BIG, DUMB THREAD: What is an ‘Assault Weapon’?

Smith River Just About All Full Up as Rain Expected to Dump All Week

AT&T Says: Yes, Our New North Coast ‘Network Upgrade’ Will Include Emergency Access to East-West Fiber

Assault Weapon Found Under the Hood of Pickup After EPD Drug Dog Alerts to Weed

CULVERT FAILURE! Trinidad’s Stagecoach Road Closed Until God Knows When, Says County

Traffic Backed Up Coming Into Eureka From the North Due to Caltrans Bridgework

County Health Department Says: We Can Help You Get Home For the Holidays, But You Have to Stay There Forever

Did You See a Long Line of People Parading Through Eureka Late Friday Night? Here’s What That Was

Fortuna Man Suffers Head Trauma in Last Night’s Hydesville Car v. Pedestrian Crash, Says CHP

Two More Guns From Pac Outfitters Heist Found on Redway Man With Felony Warrants

Simultaneous Freakazoid Car Crashes in Hydesville, Loleta

(UPDATE) Single-Family Home Engulfed in Flames on Patrick’s Point Drive

Board of Supervisors Appoints Two Longtime Staffers as Interim Heads of County Government, Health and Human Services