Articles by Ryan Burns

March 2026

Investigation Sustains Allegation That Supervisor Rex Bohn was ‘Hostile and Abusive’ Toward Staff

Redwood National Park Staff Flags Books About Local Tribes in Response to Trump Order to Revise Historical Information

The County’s Aviation Director Just Resigned Two Months Into the Gig, Just Like the Prior Aviation Director

CAKEWALK? Two County Supervisor Candidates (One Incumbent and One Newcomer) Are Running Unopposed as the Filing Deadline Fast Approaches

TODAY in SUPES: Board Gets an Earful on Felled Old Growth, Tinkers Again With Tobacco Retail Ordinance and Revisits Code of Conduct Complaint Procedures

Two Months After the Arcata Fire, Dandar’s Lines Up a Temporary Location While Northtown Books Keeps Searching for a New Spot

February 2026

California Horse Racing Board Again Shoots Down Proposal for Humboldt County Fair Dates

Eureka Motorist Decides to Flee From Traffic Stop; Chase Lasts About Two Blocks

Humboldt County Unveils Design Plans for Its New Public Health Lab

Humboldt County Has an Uncommonly High Rate of People Who Live in Poverty Despite Working Full-Time, Year-Round, Study Reveals

This Year’s Cannifest Will Not Be Held in Blue Lake After All

The Owner of Eureka Books is Set to Open a New Store Offering Graphic Novels, Manga, Role-Playing Games and More

It’s Official: Nordic Aquafarms Has Cut Bait On Its Proposed $650M Fish Factory Project on Humboldt Bay

Amazon Confirms Plans for a Distribution Warehouse in McKinleyville

Blue Lake Cannifest Moves Forward: Organizer, Dell’Arte and City Council Agree to Plan a Scaled-Down Event

Dell’Arte Was Excited to Bring Cannifest to Blue Lake. Then City Hall Threatened Legal Action.

Federal Contractor That Hired a Prominent White Nationalist Did Over $1M in Security Work in Humboldt and Del Norte Counties Last Year: The Guardian

[UPDATED] Catholic Diocese of Santa Rosa Selling Eight Acres in Rio Dell as Part of Bankruptcy Proceedings Amid Sex Abuse Claims

Ferndale Schools Superintendent Found to be Operating an Unpermitted Vacation Rental in City Limits

Coastal Commission Approves Sweeping Consent Agreement to Tear Down and Remediate Schneider Project, Give Site to Wiyot Tribes

A Quest for Historical Accuracy Delayed Renovations of U.S. Coast Guard Station Humboldt Bay, But the Project is Finally Complete

(PHOTOS) Commercial Crabbers Fear Short Season After Low-Volume Haul in First Dungeness Harvest

(UPDATE: BUILDING SAVED) Fire Breaks Out in Upper Story of Eureka Victorian

January 2026

Commercial Crabbers Reach Deal on Price, Will Start Setting Traps This Weekend

Newspaper Deliveries Interrupted After Humboldt County’s Primary Distribution Driver Dies in Car Accident

Humboldt Has More ‘ICE Out’ Demonstrations Planned, With a General Strike Friday and Big Courthouse Protest Saturday

Local Residents Seek Details About How Eureka Police Will Respond if ICE Agents Show Up Here

YESTERDAY in SUPES: Board Fine-Tunes the County’s Legislative Wish List Amid Fiscal and Political Uncertainty; Weed Tax Officially Nixed

Schneider Agrees to Pay $400K in Penalties for Mega-Home Permit Violations, Fully Restore Property and Then Give It to a Tribe, Nonprofit or Government Agency

PHOTOS and VIDEO of Sunday’s ‘ICE Out’ Protests in Eureka and Ferndale

Humboldt County Superior Court Secures Stopgap Funding to Maintain Courthouse Security Screening Through June 2027

Enviro Group Cries Foul as Caltrans Removes a Few Small Trees in Richardson Grove; Agency Says Construction on Long-Delayed Improvement Project Will Start in Spring

[UPDATED] Fire Erupts In Arcata Warehouse Where People and Pets are Living in Tents

Driver Narrowly Misses Eureka’s Old Town Carriage Horse Before Colliding With a Tree By the Gazebo

The Wing Group, Whose Arcata Factory Was Vandalized By Protesters on Saturday, Acquires Kokatat in Union of Local Success Stories

TODAY in SUPES: With Federal Funding Cuts Averted for Now, Locals Resume Efforts to Develop More Supportive Housing for People Experiencing Homelessness

PRAISE BE! Ferndale Pastor Tyrel Bramwell, Called to the Cold Desert of Rural Wyoming, is Leaving Humboldt

Trinidad Has Clean Water Once Again Following Large Leak and Multi-Day Shortage

Daryl Jones’s Middle School Girlfriend Testifies that He Harassed and Repeatedly Threatened to Kill Her in the Years Before His Arrest

[UPDATED] Blue Lake City Councilmember Elise Scafani All But Certain to Survive Recall Election

In Daryl Jones Prelim Hearing, Cops Recount Graphic Threats to Harm and Kill Children at Local Schools

December 2025

Here’s Why a Jet Left Big U-Shaped Contrails Over Humboldt County Yesterday

Humboldt Shelter Dogs in Need of Belated Christmas Gifts, Especially Some Thick Blankets for the Cement Floors

Local Nonprofits Offer Hot Meals, Warming Centers and More to Those in Need This Christmas

UP NEXT: WIND! Gusts up to 70 mph are Likely to Cause Power Outages, Topple Trees and Create Dangerous Driving Conditions, Agencies Warn

[UPDATE: SAVED!] Attempted Rescue Underway Near Ferndale as 72-Year-Old Woman in Vehicle is Submerged to Her Neck in Flooded Field, According to Scanner Traffic

(UPDATE) Flood Watch to Remain in Effect Through Friday; Hwy. 101 Reopened in Both Directions

[UPDATE: 101 NORTHBOUND CLOSED] WATERWORLD: Widespread Flooding is Closing Area Roads and Prompting Emergency Rescues for Trapped Residents

Trump is About to Reclassify Cannabis, Easing Restrictions on Banking, Taxes and Research, According to Multiple News Outlets

Humboldt County Supervisors Adopt Long-Awaited Climate Action Plan, Set Greenhouse Gas Emissions Threshold