Articles by LoCO Staff

October 2025

OBITUARY: Orion Morrissey Nelson, 1999-2025

OBITUARY: Merel E. Babcock, 1931-2025

OBITUARY: Daryl Dan Arrance, 1949-2025

OBITUARY: Angie Depew, 1959-2025

Suspect in Flamingo Motel Standoff Set Fire to Things in His Room, Spit on Hospital Staff, Police Say

Sonoma County Supervisor James Gore Drops Out of the Race to Replace State Sen. Mike McGuire

Big Police Presence on Broadway as First Responders Deal With Person Apparently Barricaded Inside the Flamingo Motel

DHHS Lifts Advisory for Harmful Algal Blooms

Humboldt Emergency Services Manager Ryan Derby Takes His Talents to Sacramento

OBITUARY: Darren Albert Toland, 1970-2025

Foster Clean Power: New Solar Energy and Battery Storage Project Launched Near Arcata

OBITUARY: Ricky Wright, 1939-2025

They’ve Canceled That Big Prescribed Burn Near Redway For Now, But Calfire Will Go North to Burn Up Some of Cuneo Creek Instead

Trump Administration Appears to Claw Back $88 Million Grant for Local Tribal Energy Resilience Project

OBITUARY: Roger Hardaway, 1939-2025

OBITUARY: Timothy (Tim) Brent Mendoza, 1957-2025

OBITUARY: Avery Gallacci, 1956-2025

OBITUARY: Beverly Ann Dame, 1940-2025

New Research Suggests That Trespass Grows Scar the Land for Longer Than You Might Have Thought

Big Prescribed Burn Planned for the Redway Area This Week, and It’ll Likely Affect Highway Traffic

OBITUARY: Joe M. Avelar, 1938-2025

OBITUARY: John Wiebe, 1930-2025

OBITUARY: Robert Dean McConkey, 1944-2025

OBITUARY: Ruth Morris, 1941-2025

LoCO SPORTS! Would You Believe That Every Last One of Those High-Flying Redwood Coast Gymnasts Qualified for State?

Wanted Colorado Woman Taken Into Custody After Firing Weapon Inside Trinidad Home, Sheriff’s Office Says

OBITUARY: Kelli Ann Welch, 1962-2025

Need Help Affording Child Care? There’s a Little-Known Local Grant Program That Can Cover Some Costs

Man Arrested for Storming Arcata City Council Dais Arrested Again This Morning After Early Morning Standoff on University Property

Shelter Cove Man Arrested for Criminal Threats After Short Standoff Yesterday

OBITUARY: Robert Walter Applewhite, 1956-2025

EPD Arrests 19-Year-Old on Weapons, Narcotics Charges

County Health and Human Services Lists Programs for Youth, Elderly That Are Unfunded as of Today as a Result of the ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’

THE CHANGING OF THE MEREDITHS: Six Rivers Brewery Owner Meredith Maier Named Arcata Chamber of Commerce Executive Director

BIG WAVES! The First of the Big Winter Swells is Landing Upon Our Shores as We Speak, So Pay Heed to the Ocean

Fortuna Trespassing Complaint Leads to Two Arrests, Recovery of Numerous Stolen Firearms

OBITUARY: Terence Hugh Liles, 1936-2025

September 2025

Sheriff’s Office Announces New Program to Help Wean Inmates Off Opioid Addiction

OBITUARY: Mary Ellen Laffranchi, 1925-2025

OBITUARY: Tammy Lynne (Bellach) Lewis, 1969-2025

OBITUARY: Dennis George Black, 1941-2025

NEW LAW ALERT: Newsom Signs Bill to Protect Salmon Populations in the Klamath River Watershed

GUEST OPINION: Local Medical Providers Reject Providence Attorneys’ Stance on Emergency Abortion Access

Sheriff’s Office Seeks Public’s Help in Locating a Vintage Gas Pump Stolen During a Recent Burglary in Arcata

OBITUARY: Henry Moore, 1938-2025

Yesterday’s Police Standoff on Hawthorne Ends After SWAT Team, K-9 Unit Storm House; Suspect Taken Into Custody

Sheriff’s Deputy Searches Man on Probation for Drug Crimes, Finds More Drugs, HCSO Says

Humboldt Marijuana Enforcement Team Part of Multi-Agency Raid on Grow in Northern Mendocino County

(UPDATE: IN CUSTODY) Big Police Presence on Eureka’s Hawthorne Street

OBITUARY: Justin Seth Talkington, 1998-2025