Articles by LoCO Staff

August 2025

OBITUARY: Beverly ‘Betty’ Jean Shamberger, 1945-2025

BEWARE, BIG LAGOON-GOERS! The Cyanobacteria is Back With a Fury, and It’s Been Spotted On the South Fork of the Eel Too

OBITUARY: Ivy Olive ‘Johnnie’ Olsen, 1918-2025

OBITUARY: Garth Jewett Casacca, 1938-2025

OBITUARY: Bruce J. Amado, 1939-2025

OBITUARY: Mervin Frank ‘Mickey’ Foster, 1932-2025

Now You Can Learn Some Soulatluk While Strolling the Wigi Waterfront Trail!

Caltrans Announces New Opening Schedule for Highway 36

OBITUARY: Karen Anne Fredrickson, 1946-2025

OBITUARY: Joan Ellen Hirschfeld, 1955-2025

LISTEN UP, MCKINLEYVILLAN: If You are Interested in the McK ‘Town Center’ Plan, Then You Will Want to Put This Date Into Your Calendar App and Set a Notification, Because it Will Be Important

Fun For the Whole Family at This Weekend’s Klamath Festival! (But No Salmon, Again)

OBITUARY: David Nils Lindberg, 1954-2025

Drug Task Force Sheriff’s Office Arrests Two Women For Alleged Transportation of Fentanyl, Warns That California Law May Put Them Out on the Streets Again Soon

Suspect in Stabbing Arrested by Eureka Police Department

You Like Those Murals Next to Halvorsen Park That They Repaint Every Year?

Feel Free to Ignore the Smoke and People Crying For Help When All Simulated Hell is Staged in Arcata Wednesday

OBITUARY: Kimberly Biggle Dedini, 1980-2025

OBITUARY: Robert Charles Wunner, 1939-2025

OBITUARY: Beverly Moorehead, 1934-2025

OBITUARY: Ginger Olsen, 1937-2025

Arcata Urges Residents (and Pets) to Celebrate National Dog Month Responsibly

hot, Hot, HOT! The Humboldt County Interior is Gonna Be Blazing This Weekend, and the Coast is Gonna be Pleasantly Sunny

Sheriff’s Office Releases Names of Deputies Involved in Fatal Glendale Incident Last Month

OBITUARY: Ronald E. Titus Jr., 1952-2025

Humboldt Bay Firefighters Knock Down Early Morning Blaze at Cutten Mobile Home; Damage Estimated at $25K

OBITUARY: Robbie Young, 1974-2025

OBITUARY: Jack Casey, 1940-2025

UH-OH! Vero Fiber Down in Eureka While Company Looks for a ‘Possible Fiber Cut’

OBITUARY: Benjamin Thomas Branham Sr., 1945-2025

OBITUARY: Shirley ‘Jean’ Browning, 1935-2025

MISSING: Eureka Police Department Seeking 37-Year-Old Woman Last Seen in April in Arcata

OBITUARY: Noel Francis Halker, 1977-2025

Sheriff’s Office Arrests Alleged Repeat Offenders in Theft-From-Vehicles Case

Sheriff’s Deputies Clear Illegal Homeless Encampment North of Redway Following ‘Human-Caused’ Brush Fire; One Woman Arrested for Trespassing

OBITUARY: Levi Parker Rice, 1982-2025

OBITUARY: Donald Lincoln Ziegenfuss, 1930-2025

Indianola Cutoff Traffic Stop End With Two Arrested on Suspicion of Dealing Meth and Fentanyl

July 2025

OBITUARY: Martha Janelle Cringle Buss, 1938-2025

OBITUARY: Donald M Brown, 1931-2025

(UPDATES) TSUNAMI CANCELLED: Advisory Lifted; Exercise Caution on the Beach

Arcata Man Pulled Over, Arrested With 400 Pounds of Psilocybin Mushrooms and $370k in Cash, Says Law Enforcement

BUTLER FIRE UPDATE: Resources Shifted to Southern Perimeter as Containment Nears 50 Percent; Evacuation Orders, Warnings Remain in Place

OBITUARY: Natalie R. Turner, 1964-2025

OBITUARY: Paul McEwen III, 1962-2025

Sheriff’s Office Identifies Man Shot by Deputies in Glendale Saturday

FIRE UPDATE: Butler Fire Hits 21,000 Acres; 38 Percent Contained

OBITUARY: Donald Eugene Schmitter, 1944-2025

OBITUARY: Patricia Ann Fales, 1969-2025

Wanted Felon Shot Dead Near Blue Lake in Standoff With Humboldt County Sheriff’s Deputies, Agency Reports