Articles by Hank Sims

November 2015

The Fishing Fleet Needs Extra Blessings This Year; Trinidad Made Sure It Got Them

Panda Rescue! Here’s Where Masala the Red Panda Was Found and How She Was Captured

PANDA HOME

Sheriff’s Office Makes Arrest in Alderpoint Attempted Murder

Weed Bust on the Plaza: Three Very Careless South Carolina Men Arrested With Nine Pounds

Hey, Potential Dog-Adopters: Act Now, Because the Animal Shelter is Dangerously Full

Sheriff’s Office Lucks on Big Weed Cache in Blue Lake Apartment Complex

Election Maps! Here is How NoHum and SoHum Voted in Their Harbor District Contests

HSU President Describes Racist Assault on Students in Downtown Arcata, Calls for Community Action

Pat Higgins Wins Harbor District Race; Penultimate Report Shows 81-Vote Lead for Incumbent

E Street Shooting Suspect in Custody, Eureka Police Say

Another Downtown Car Crash Closes Two Lanes of Fourth Street

Two-Vehicle Crash in Downtown Eureka Closes H Street

Meet Your New, Militarized Eureka Boardwalk

87-Year-Old Suffers Major Injuries After Sideswiping Fellow Driver Last Night

Judge Issues Arrest Warrant for Witness Who Wandered Off During the Warren Trial

SNOW COMING! Also Frost and Hail and Thunderstorms, Maybe! Hazardous Weather Outlook Issued by the National Weather Service

Former Eureka Police Officer (and One-Time Chief-Apparent) Arms His Cops With Nunchucks, Makes National News

Handcuffed Westhaven Man Runs From Sheriff’s Office Arrest Into the Woods; Ensuing Search So Far Comes Up Short

Man Huffing Whip-Its in Downtown Garberville Draws Attention to His Big Hash Stash, Sheriff’s Office Says

Ferndale Police Smell Weed Yet Paradoxically Find Meth and a Rifle on Eurekan Passing Through Town

Arcata Fire Acknowledges Measure A Defeat; Vows to Keep Fighting for Additional Staffing

(UPDATED) Officer, Deceased Suspect From Sunday Afternoon Eureka Shootout Named in Press Conference This Afternoon

Don’t Eat Local Crab! Toxic Bloom Makes Dungeness Unsafe, State Health Department Warns

Drunk 23-Year-Old Smeared With Blood Arrested in Yesterday’s Dog-Killing Arson Incident, Sheriff’s Office Says

NAILBITER! Higgins Barely Pulls Ahead in Election Night Final Report; Dale Cruises to Easy Victory

(UPDATED) Dog Dies in House Fire Off Allard Avenue; Investigators Still Looking at Possibility of Arson

EPD: Murder Suspect Confessed to Detective; Killing on F Street Was ‘Marijuana-Related’

ELECTION DAY! Find Your Polling Place! Read Your Sample Ballot! VOTE!

Overturned City Pickup on Broadway Snarls Afternoon Traffic

Szechuan Sewage Spill Update: Oh, Actually That Shut Down All Oyster Harvesting on the Bay

(UPDATE, REOPENED) Sewage Leak Shuts Down Szechuan Garden Restaurant

Fortuna Man Arrested With 3.5 Pounds of Meth After Months-Long Investigation, Drug Task Force Says

4.3 Quake Strikes Off Cape Mendocino

October 2015

Caltrans on New Willits Bypass Lawsuit: ‘All Historical Preservation Laws are Being Followed’

PULL UP YOUR PANTS, EUREKA! City Council to Consider Illegalizing Public Nudity

Mendo County Tribes Sue Caltrans for ‘Knowingly Destroying’ Historic Sites During Willits Bypass Construction

Two Suffer Major Injuries After Crashing Into Overturned Vehicle Near Redway

Bank of America Retreats From Humboldt; Arcata, Fortuna, Henderson Center Branches Will be Taken Over by Tri Counties Bank

SHAKER IN ARCATA! A Li’l 3.4 Quake Just Shook a Lot of People

Political Sign Theft in McK: Prominent ‘Rotwein for Harbor’ Sign Prematurely and Illegally Upcycled

(UPDATED) Eureka Police Detain Three at Gunpoint on Fifth Street

Is ‘80s Crack Kingpin ‘Freeway’ Ricky Ross Buying Land Outside Fortuna?

52-Year-Old Man Stabbed to Death at Arcata’s Courtyard Circle Apartments Tonight

MYRTLETOWN: You Have No Water, Possibly Due to Water Main Break

Fire at Mad River Community Hospital Contained

Homicide in Eureka; One Person Dead, Another Injured Following Shooting Near F and 15th

Police at the Scene of Suspected Commercial Burglary in Downtown Eureka

Ferndale Police Stop Car For Tinted Windows, Find Meth and Weed and Hash

Hung Jury in Trial of Fieldbrook Homicide Suspect; Case Scheduled to be Retried in December