Articles by LoCO Staff

July 2021

Fifty-Seven-Year-Old Man is Humboldt’s Latest Drowning Victim After Getting Swept Under by the Current in the Eel Near Holmes Flat

OBITUARY: Dianna Hope Melton, 1949-2021

MISSING: Sheriff’s Office Seeking Northern Humboldt Man Who Disappeared After Borrowing Friend’s Car

MONDAYS WITH MICHAELE: Relay For Life is Back!

OBITUARY: Joseph ‘Les’ Miranda, 1934-2021

OBITUARY: Barbara Jean Slade, 1931-2021

(AUDIO) HUMBOLDT HOLDING UP: A River May Soon Not Run Through It? Kayak and Fishing Guide Eric Stockwell On the Health of Humboldt’s Waterways

OBITUARY: Marlene Patenaude Hover, 1933-2021

See Smoke in Your Air? It’s Moving in From the East

Boil-Water Advisory Issued for Klamath Community Services District Due to Violation of California Safe Drinking Water Act, Yurok Tribe Says

OBITUARY: Ramon Torres Delgado, 1941-2021

OBITUARY: Charles L. Bean Jr., 1956-2021

MASKS BACK UP: Humboldt Public Health Joins 25 Other Counties to Recommend Masking Indoors, Regardless of Vaccination Status

Public Health Urges Swimmers to Beware After Dog Dies, Person Sickened By Cyanobacteria on Local Rivers

(PHOTOS) WEED BUST BONANZA! Marijuana Enforcement Team Leads Multi-Agency Effort, Serving 23 Warrants at Grow Ops Illegally Diverting Water

OBITUARY: Elsie Francis Moore, 1921-2021

OBITUARY: Janice Hartman, 1952-2021

Joe Biden’s Congress’s Demand for Tribute From Our Local Life-Giving Forests Has Been Fulfilled: ‘Sugar Bear’ the 84-Foot White Fir Will Serve as the 2021 U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree

OBITUARY: Molly van Zeumeren, 1929-2021

OBITUARY: Joann D. Stewart, 1943-2021

OBITUARY: Gene Fisher, 1931-2021

OBITUARY: Vivian Isola Bradford Long, 1927-2021

Four Inmates at the Humboldt County Jail Overdosed on Fentanyl Over the Weekend, Says Sheriff’s Office; All Were Saved by Emergency Doses of Narcan

OBITUARY: Dorvin Valgene Phillips, 1935-2021

OBITUARY: Jamison Sequoia Sullivan, 2021-2021

OBITUARY: Howard Edwin Biggs Jr., 1933-2021

Woman Arrested in Myrtletown After Leaving Infant in Vehicle to Go Drink Alcohol, Says Sheriff’s Office

Throwing Knives, 14 Grams of Meth Seized During Traffic-Stop Arrest in McKinleyville, Sheriff’s Office Says

Were You Hoping to Get Vaccinated at the Fortuna Redwood AutoXpo? You Can!

MONDAYS WITH MICHAELE: A Place For the Fallen

Firefighters Responded to Gas Leak Caused by Car Crash, Unrelated House Fire and Multiple Other Incidents on Saturday Evening

Calfire Police and Allied Agencies Arrest Man for Suspected Arson in Weitchpec

(UPDATE) Identities of Four People Killed in Dinsmore Plane Crash Released

Two Arrested in Possession of Meth, Prohibited Weapons After Traffic Stop on Stolen Car on Briceland Road, Sheriff’s Office Says

OBITUARY: Paul Nystrom, 1956-2021

(UPDATE) ‘Multiple Fatalities’ Likely in Dinsmore Plane Crash, Says Humboldt Sheriff’s Office

(UPDATE) Man Who Went Missing Near Mitchell Heights Early Tuesday Morning Has Reportedly Returned Home

HSU Cop Under Investigation For Pepper-Spraying Transient at Aquatic Center, University Says

Trinidad Declares Drought Emergency, Says Water Conservation is Necessary and May Become Mandatory

OBITUARY: Arthur LeRoy Dickson, 1929-2021

OBITUARY: Brian Lee Collart, 1949-2021

OBITUARY: Terry Marlin Lawler, 1951-2021

DON’T FEED ‘EM: Disease Outbreak Hits California’s Deer Population

OBITUARY: Alvin ‘Dean’ Smither, 1963-2021

OBITUARY: Oscar L. Huber, 1931-2020

OBITUARY: Bonnie Sue Tatum, 1955-2021

Orleans Petty Theft Suspect Found Hiding in Nearby Culvert With Ammunition, Sheriff’s Office Says

Man Allegedly in Possession of Stolen Vehicle Arrested Near Loleta

Big Changes to Eureka Friday Night Market Coming

Sara Bareilles Donates Five Thousand Books to Humboldt Nonprofit