Articles by Hank Sims

November 2015

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

Federal Court Sentences Eureka Trespass Megagrow Bros to Seven Years Each

Hoopa Man Arrested After Struggle With Sheriff’s Deputy, CHP Officer

Rare Fire at Lanphere-Christensen Dunes Today

Fortuna Fire Assessment Passes; New Revenue Will Fund Prevention Efforts, Volunteer Retention, District Says

Shaky Stabbing Stories Land Two in Jail, Sheriff’s Office Says

Fortuna Police Catch Suspected Mailbox Burglar Hiding in Port-a-Potty

That’s Not Tacos, That’s a Lot of Meth! EPD Officer Discovers

So Close! Drug-Toting Weott Teen Tries, Fails to Ditch SoHum CHP

(UPDATED) Apartment Building Fire Near Samoa Bridge Pisses Off Cats

Los Angeles Times Reports on Fraught Relations Between Hoopa Valley Tribe, Sheriff’s Office

Devil’s Playground/Palco Marsh Maintenance Plan on Tomorrow’s Eureka City Council Agenda

(UPDATING) Firefighters Tackle Two Small Fires in Arcata and Cutten, Even as Rain Dumps Out of the Sky

Two Rifles Taken in McKinleyville Ace Hardware Break-in, Sheriff’s Office Says

Last Chance for Fortuna-Area Property Owners to Vote on Fire Assessment Fees Tonight

Big Rig Loses a Wheel at Broadway and Fifth

Burning the Land to Restore It: A Yurok Tribal Council Put the Flame to Dozens of Acres Last Week

IT’S FLU SEASON! County Health Department Runs Down Your Flu Shot Options

Two Hoopa Men Arrested in Wyoming Traffic Stop With 57 Pounds in the Hyundai

National Weather Service Ups the Chances of a Wet Humboldt Winter

East Eureka Crash Slows Southbound 101 Traffic