Articles by Hank Sims

September 2015

Here’s How Mendocino County Coped With All Its 911 Services Disappearing Yesterday

The Internet is Up! Cable Slasher to Blame for Yesterday’s Outage, Says AT&T

Oily Rags Spontaneously Combust, Set Fire to Eureka Garage

Judge Dale Reinholtsen Publicly Admonished For False Salary Records, Delayed Decisions

Vehicle Recovered, Arrest Warrant Sought in Fatal Hit-and-Run Collision

THE INTERNET IS DOWN!!! Massive AT&T Outage Takes Humboldt County Phones, Internet, Etc. Offline

Huge Heroin Bust in Fortuna Yesterday Resulted From Months-Long Eureka Police Investigation

Half-Acre Vegetation Fire Near Redway Quickly Extinguished

(UPDATED) Vegetation Fire in Valley West; Multiple Agencies Responding

Fortuna Police Bust Burglary Suspects After Pawn Shop Investigation

Rallies and Protests at Eureka City Hall, County Courthouse This Afternoon

August 2015

As Mad River Complex Nears Containment, Last of Humboldt County Evacuation Advisories Lifted

Hoopa Youth Group Protests Planned Natural Gas Pipeline to Coos Bay

RAIN! Humboldt, You Will Be Rained Upon Tonight

Arson Suspected in Early Morning Wildfire on the Hoopa Valley Reservation

Energy Industry Press Takes Note of Blue Lake Rancheria’s New Solar-Powered ‘Microgrid’

(UPDATED) Missing Eureka Man Believed to Have Been Trimming in Burnt Ranch Area

Phonebook Delivery Driver Calls 911 on Eureka Resident Who Didn’t Want a Phonebook

Central Valley Water Interests Lose Round; Clean Cool Trinity Water Coming to Salmon Run’s Rescue

It’s Time For Another Edition of EUREKA’S MOST WANTED

Gunshots in Midtown Eureka Lead Police to Convicted Reckless Shooter

HSU Student Somehow Manages to Get Lost at Mad River Beach; UPD Rescues Him

Man Killed in Yesterday’s Shelter Cove Car Crash Identified

Cops Tiptoe Up on Sleepy Trespass Growers Near Whitethorn; Almost 1,000 Plants Eradicated From Public Lands

Heroin + Meth + Hash Emporium Busted Near the Eureka Waterfront, Police Department Says

Fast-Moving Fire Blazes to Life Outside Weaverville; Mandatory Evacuations Underway

54-Year-Old Man Beaten With Bats at Garberville Homeless Encampment, Sheriff’s Office Says

Inland Smoke Report: Cleaner Air Forecast in Upcoming Days

Fieldbrook Self-Inflicted Gunshot Wound Victim Refuses to Cooperate With Police, Sheriff’s Office Says

(UPDATED) ‘Person of Interest’ Identified in Willow Creek Arson/Burglary

BLM Closes Lost Coast Trail, Other King Range Facilities, Due to 250-Acre Horse Fire

Hoopa Valley Tribe Declares State of Emergency Due to Excessive Smoke

Willow Creek Air Quality Upgraded to Merely ‘Unhealthy,’ as Some River Complex Residents Allowed to Return Home

Broadway All Jammed Up By Crash: Friends Don’t Let Friends Drive Broadway For the Next Little Bit

One Paintball Gun Shooting Suspect in Custody, Says University Police; Three More Sought

(UPDATED) EPD Investigating Report of Gunpoint Assault Near Bayshore Mall

Bad Crash on 101 North of Orick Yesterday Leaves One in Critical Condition

Colorado Resident Dies After Falling From a Cliff at College Cove

River Complex Wildland Firefighters Help Contain Early Morning Structure Fire in Willow Creek

Heroin-Toting Arcata Burglary Suspect Found by Sheriff’s Office

Humboldt Bay Fire Responding to Sunday Afternoon Balloon Track Blaze

Eureka Police Chase Down Home Invasion Robbery Suspect

Calfire Attacking New Blaze in Humboldt Redwoods State Park

Former Humboldt County Resident Sends a Video Birthday Present to Wife From Federal Prison … and on National Television!

Missing Man Scott Fitzgerald Found Dead Off Whitethorn Road

College of the Redwoods to Hand Over Fort Bragg Campus to Mendocino College

DUI Driver Runs Red Light, Smashes Into Police Car, Says EPD

Parolee Sustains Electrical Burns While Goofing Around in the PG&E Substation at Three A.M.

All Simulated Hell is About to Break Loose at a Humboldt State Dorm

Don’s Rent All Smashed Up After Broadway Driver Run Off the Road