March 2017

County Government Signals That it Will Stand By Its Recently Hired, Embattled Public Defender

Tonight’s Weed Tax Meeting Has Been Moved From Willow Creek to McKinleyville, Due to Dangerous Road Conditions

83-Year-Old Arizona Woman Killed in Solo Vehicle Crash North of Willits Last Night

Pedestrian Struck by Big Rig, Killed While Walking in Traffic on Redwood Drive

MORE SNOW TODAY! National Weather Service Expects Flurries Down to 400 Feet, With More White Stuff Piling Up Inland

Two Detained as Drug Task Force Searches Home on Eureka’s Sixth Street

MORE SNOW COMING! Snow Could Stick Down to 2,000 Feet This Weekend; Most Local Highways Will Be Impacted

Del Norte Jury Convicts Serial Sex Offender of Molesting 15-Year-Old Girl, Providing Her With Methamphetamine

Three People Taken to Hospital After Their SUV Rolled Over in Midtown Eureka; Streets Closed at the Intersection of C and Fourteenth

PG&E SEZ: Weed Growers Now Qualify For A Sweeter Deal on Electrical Rates, Just Like Other Farmers Do

Need to Take 299 to Redding? Here Are the Times of Day You Can Pass The Massive Slide at Big French Creek

Shelter Cove-Based Fugitive Nabbed While Allegedly Stealing Utility Services; Foot-Flee From Deputies Unsuccessful

February 2017

BAY TRAIL A GO! The Northern End of the Eureka-Arcata Trail is All Ready for Construction, Thanks to the Dancing CCC Crew Boss and His Team

SoHum Deputy Spots Stolen Shoes, Tracks Them to a Hefty Cache of Burgled Goods at a Room in the Lone Pine

Sheriff’s Office Recaps Today’s King Salmon Manhunt: Two Men Arrested, One Held Without Bail

(AUDIO/VIDEO) LIVE From Rep. Jared Huffman’s Town Hall Meeting in Arcata

Manhunt in King Salmon After Two Men Reportedly Fire on a Group of Children, Flee Arrest

SECURITY NATIONAL CLARIFIES: We’re Not Making Money Off Growers — We’re Making Money Off People Making Money Off Growers

Wealthy People Own All the Snow In Kneeland and You Do Not, Sheriff’s Office Reminds the Public Once Again

SILVER ALERT CANCELED: Missing Eureka Woman Found Safe and in Good Spirits

END OF AN ERA: Three Scotia Homes in Escrow and More to Follow, as the Historic Pacific Lumber Company Town Begins to Transfer Itself to the Citizenry

Willow Creek Tipster Dimes Out One of ‘Humboldt’s Most Wanted’; Cops Take Two Into Custody at East County Motel

More and More People are Stealing More and More Cars in Humboldt, Says Sheriff’s Office — And Thieves Really Like Hondas and Toyotas!

Redwoods-Adorned License Plates are a Big Flop, So Far — If You Want to Change That, Act Soon!

Motorcyclist and Bicyclist Both Taken to the Hospital After Colliding on Eureka’s West Side

VACCINES for PRETEENS! Now is the Time For Your Sulky Tweener to Get Her/His Shots

63-Year-Old Man Found Dead Underneath a Myrtle Avenue Bridge, Where He Lived

Don’t Eat Sport-Harvested Shellfish! California Public Health Department Warns of Deadly Toxins in Humboldt County Clams, Mussels, Crab Guts

How Would YOU Spend the Growers’ Money? County of Humboldt to Hold Series of Meetings on New Weed Tax

Fire at Mother-in-Law Unit in Midtown Eureka; F Street Closed Between 11th and 12th

BIG RIG SPILL! We Don’t Know Why That Trucker Flipped it Into the Ditch Last Night, CHP Says, But Everyone Walked Away

PG&E Will Be Buzzing Humboldt’s Urban Areas Today, Looking For Gas Leaks

BATTEN DOWN: Flood Warnings Issued For Klamath, Eel, Van Duzen Rivers

Humboldt DA Investigator Named California ‘Investigator of the Year’ For Her Work on Sexual Assault, Human Trafficking Cases

Rain, Rain, Rain! Downed Tree Closes Kneeland School, and More Wet Weather is Coming

Hoopa Valley Tribe, Allies Win Big Legal Fight For Salmon-Saving Klamath River Flows

Ruth Lake Dog Put Down in Fortuna After Contracting Rabies From a Skunk; Second Case of Canine Rabies Recently, After a Long Absence in Humboldt

Weather Chaos! Highway 101 Slides, Power Out Around the County, More Rain Coming

FORTUNA IS MAD! If You’re the Jerks Who Drove All Over the Grass at Rohner Park Last Night, Know That You WILL Go Down

62-Year-Old Pedestrian Suffers Moderate Injuries After Being Struck By Prius Driver in Fortuna; Police Looking For Witnesses

Jury Awards $56.5 Million to Construction Worker Nearly Killed on Caltrans Project; Verdict Believed to be the Largest of Its Kind in Humboldt History

January 2017

Convicted Humboldt County Embezzler Jeff Lang Back in Prison, This Time On Charges of Bilking Women He Met on Dating Sites

Arcata Police Bust Up Downtown Meth House

Surveillance Video Leads Fortuna Police to Banged-Up Truck of Suspected Rohner Park Vandal

Federal Court Rules Sheriff, Correctional Officers May Be Sued in 2014 Jailhouse Death; Dismisses Case Against Eureka Police

DA: Serial Westhaven/Trinidad Burglar Sentenced to Eight Years

That Superfast Undersea Internet? You’re Probably Not Getting It, Unless You are One of 307 People Who Live in Lewiston

New, Superfast Internet From the Ocean? Harbor District to Hear $1.75 Million Proposal to Connect Humboldt to Undersea Cables

Explosion in Myrtletown Home Sends One Person to the Hospital; Drug Task Force, Fire Department on Scene

80-Year-Old Woman Dies After Being Struck By Pickup Driver in Henderson Center