Articles by LoCO Staff

August 2026

OBITUARY: Ravis Glenn Whitehead, 1934-2026

OBITUARY: Gary Allen Blickenstaff, 1935-2026

OBITUARY: Benjamin Jacob Hungness, 1981-2026

All Simulated Hell Will Break Out on the Cal Poly Humboldt Campus This Wednesday

FISH ON! After Three Years of No Salmon at the Klamath Salmon Festival, A Limited Number of Plates Will Once Again be Graced With Chinook This Weekend

OBITUARY: Lana Maria Crutchfield, 1947-2026

OBITUARY: Reva Nell Grant, 1945-2026

Marijuana Enforcement Team Eradicates 6,000 Growing Cannabis Plants From Illegal Willow Creek Grow, Sheriff’s Office Says

Still Thinking About Running for Arcata City Council? The City Just Extended Its Filing Deadline to Aug. 12

GUEST OPINION: Rumble Against the Redwoods

Heads Up! Portions of the McKinleyville Community Forest Will be Closed in the Coming Weeks for Hazard Fuels Reduction

OBITUARY: Jean M. Caldwell, 1939-2026

Myers Flat Man Gets 8-Year Sentence for Threatening Neighbor, DA’s Office Says

German Offshore Wind Developer Sells its Humboldt County Lease Back to the Trump Administration, Promises to Develop Natural Gas in the United States Instead

Hoopa Valley Tribe Celebrates the Opening of its New Data Center, the Hub of Broadband Expansion in the Valley and Beyond

Eureka Police Department Announces Arrest of Attempted Homicide Suspect Yesterday

OBITUARY: Marilyn Irene Nelson, 1939-2026

University Police Arrest Eureka Man With 40 Grams of Cocaine at Off-Campus Location, According to Officers

A Section of Harris Street in Eureka Will Be Closed for a Few Hours on Wednesday for Emergency Traffic Signal Repairs

OBITUARY: Maria Wijnanda Petronella Oosterwijk VanderVeldt, 1931-2026

IT’S GONNA GET HOT: With Interior Humboldt Temperatures to Reach Triple Digits This Week, County Offers Safety Tips

The Sheriff’s Office’s Annual Sex Offender Registration Sweep Has Been Completed, and Here are the Numbers

Sheriff’s Office Recaps Successful Search-and-Rescue Mission in the Mattole Valley

OBITUARY: Stanley Eugene Johnson, 1949-2026

OBITUARY: Mary Hester Sanger, 1949-2026

OBITUARY: Ronald George Webster, 1941-2026

July 2026

‘I Will No Longer Stay Silent’: Shannon Miranda Issues Statement Decrying ‘Gestapo Tactics’ by Law Enforcement and ‘Lies’ From Critics

There’s No More Asbestos at the Arcata Fire Site, Cleanup Crew Says

BURNIN’ UP THE RUNWAY! There Will be a Prescribed Burn at the Airport Soon, and That’s Because They Want to Prevent Any Accidental Burning During the Rumble Over the Redwoods Air Show Next Weekend

Two Men Arrested on Burglary, Assault Charges After Allegedly Forcing Entry into an Arcata Bottoms Home on Thursday Afternoon, APD Says

Humboldt Bay Firefighters Extinguish Small Brush Fire Behind Bayshore Mall; No Structures Damaged

OBITUARY: Clarence ‘Clare’ Ross Bugenig, 1955-2026

OBITUARY: David Paul Anderson, 1968-2026

Sheriff’s Office Looking for Missing, At-Risk 23-Year-Old Man Last Seen Near Honeydew

It’s Official! Former Eureka City Councilmember Jeff Leonard Qualifies for November Ballot

16-Year-Old Falls Off of Cliff Near Trinidad, Rescued by Coast Guard

Coast Guard Medevacs 72-Year-Old With Stroke Symptoms Way Up in Trinity Alps

OBITUARY: Blake Whittington, 2003-2026

OBITUARY: Lori Ann Moehnke Anderson, 1964-2026

SCAM ALERT! Now the Scammers are Back to Pretending to be Sheriff’s Office Employees, and Their Scam is to Email You a Fake Bill for Something

Wanted Felon Feigns Sleep, Flees on Foot and Struggles Before Arrest Near In-N-Out, EPD Says

OBITUARY: Charles ‘Chuck’ Smith, 1945-2026

OBITUARY: Obdulia R. De Walters, 1933-2026

OBITUARY: Lynette Maureen Cahill, 1965-2026

POLL! What’s the Strangest Organism That’s Ever Injured You?

‘Healing the Land and Honoring Its History’: Save the Redwoods League Returns 125 Acres of Ancestral Territory Near Orick to Yurok Tribe

OBITUARY: Marissa Antoinette Lopez, 1996-2026

OBITUARY: Sharron Lea Anglin, 1952-2026

OBITUARY: Max Lennon Sr., 1935-2026

OBITUARY: Norma Elaine Snodgrass, 1939-2026