December 2025

Recreational Dungeness Crab Fishing Now Open to Entire Humboldt Coast; Commercial Season Set to Open Jan. 15, Pending Domoic Acid Test Results

Eureka Police Officer Placed on Paid Leave After Christmas Eve Arrest for Alleged Drunk Driving

Sheriff’s Office Announces $20K Reward for Leads in Cold Case of Missing Hoopa Woman Andrea ‘Chick’ White

OBITUARY: Gabriela ‘Gabi’ Anne Didion, 1994-2025

CDFW to Conduct Helicopter Capture-and-Collar Efforts for Deer, Elk and Gray Wolves in Humboldt County and Across Northern California

Eureka Police Department Urges Public to Drive Safely and Obey Road Rules Following Latest Rollover Collision

Klamath Indigenous Land Trust Buys 10,000 Acres Along the Klamath River From PacifiCorp

OBITUARY: Dr. Richard (Dick) Stepp, 1945-2025

OBITUARY: James (Jim) Kennedy, 1951-2025

OBITUARY: Ina Jean Watson, 1931-2025

OBITUARY: Olga Dahl, 1920-2025

Start Thinking About Dumping That Tree! Once Again, Scouts Stand Ready to Haul Away Your Christmas Centerpiece For You

Friends of the Eel River Set to Appeal Court Ruling Over the County’s Management of Groundwater Extraction in Lower Eel Valley

Sheriff’s Office Recaps Rescue of 72-Year-Old Woman Nearly Swept Away in Ferndale Today

Eureka Police Arrest Three on Suspicion of Driving Under the Influence During Checkpoint on Fourth Street Last Week

Lafayette Elementary Made Friends With an Elementary School in Taiwan

Humboldt Bay Fire Station in Eureka Closed After Fallen Tree Cuts Off Gas and Power, Damages Building and Disrupts Communications

Blue Lake Set to Appoint Civil Engineer, Third-Generation Local Jennie Short as Next City Manager

Commercial Crabbing Can’t Start Locally Until at Least Jan. 15, Says California Department of Fish and Wildlife

The Bear River Family Entertainment Center Will Shut Down for Remodeling at the Beginning of the Year

Redway Couple Arrested on Charges of Kidnapping and Maintaining a Drug House, Sheriff’s Office Says

OBITUARY: Martha Peabody Traphagen, 1943-2025

OBITUARY: Patricia ‘Pat’ Marion Long, 1937-2025

It’s Gonna Rain Like Hell Tonight, and You Should Expect Chaos

Human Trafficking Investigation Prompts Raid on Cannabis Operation in Petrolia, Sheriff’s Office Says

2,700 Acres Behind McKinleyville Community Forest Conserved; Green Diamond, Northcoast Regional Land Trust Sign Easement That Will Keep the Land for Sustainable Logging, Wildlife Habitat

OBITUARY: John DeMatos, 1937-2025

OBITUARY: Shirley Elizabeth Sutton-Wight, 1944-2025

OBITUARY: Ellen Margarette Crump, 1929-2025

No More Gas in Orick! Shoreline Market to Close Jan. 1 as Yurok Tribe Firms Up Design Plans for Brand-New Fuel Mart

OBITUARY: Daniel Patrick Adams, 1991-2025

OBITUARY: Melinda Elaine Petersen, 1958-2025

Tonight’s Eureka City Council Meeting Has Been Canceled

THAT’S A LOTTA TURKEY! Rotary Club of Eureka Donates Hundreds of Birds During Record-Setting Holiday Turkey Drive

OBITUARY: Richard George Kinney, 1938-2025

Sheriff’s Deputies Allegedly Find Homemade Explosive Device, Drugs, Guns and Ammo After Searching a Jeep ‘Associated With’ a Passenger on Probation

Eureka Police Vow to be On the Hunt for DUI Drivers This Holiday Season, and There’ll be a Checkpoint Somewhere in Town This Thursday

‘A New Era of Earthquake Detection’: Cal Poly Humboldt Participates in Project Using Fiber Optic Lines to Measure Seismic Activity

OBITUARY: Michael Avelar, 1983-2025

OBITUARY: Glenn Edward Martella, 1942-2025

(VIDEO) A Pod of Orcas Visited Humboldt Bay This Afternoon

OBITUARY: Chris Frolking, 1949-2025

OBITUARY: Dillon Nadine Lewis, 1960-2025

OBITUARY: Christyann Emmerson Tanner, 1965-2025

WHAT A HAUL! Humboldt Raised 23.5 Tons of Food and $63,000 During the Annual Holiday Food Drive

PG&E Extends Deadline for Comment on Potter Valley Project Dam Removal; Friends of the Eel Urges Humboldt People to Make Their Voices Heard

Dr. Keith Flamer, College of the Redwoods’ Longtime President, Will Step Down From That Role One Year From Now

University Police Arrest Townie on Suspicion of Indecent Exposure, Lewd Acts and Peeping

Repeat Violent Offender Assaults Girlfriend, Runs, Rams Sheriff Vehicle Before Being Taken Into Custody, Sheriff’s Office Says

Jury Convicts Two Humboldt County Men of ‘Gruesome’ Double Murder in Butte County