Articles by Ryan Burns

May 2020

HSU Announces Unexpected Retirement of University Police Chief Donn Peterson

(UPDATING) Protesters Clash With Traffic, Demand Justice as They March Through Eureka, Demonstrating Against Racism and Police Brutality

(VIDEO) County Health Officer Says She Probably Won’t Be Eating Out, Advises Seniors and Immunocompromised to be Wary

(PHOTOS) Educators Deliver Hand-Made Yard Signs to Celebrate McKinleyville High Grads

(VIDEO) There Are Three or Four Active Chains of COVID Transmission in Humboldt Right Now, County Health Officer Says

Civil Grand Jury Issues Glowing Report on Local Prison Camps, Suggests Training Jail Inmates to Fight Fires

Bear River Casino Touts ‘Virus-Killing’ Spray Ahead of Reopening; There’s No Evidence the Spray Does Any Such Thing

(VIDEO) ‘Trimmigrants’ Not Welcome This Year; Stage Three of Reopening Likely Coming Soon, Sheriff Says in Latest Media Availability

Times-Standard Dismantles Printing Press, Lays Off Production Staff; Papers Now Being Trucked From Chico for Delivery

County Awards $180,000 in Cannabis Micro-Grants via Project Trellis

(VIDEO) This Spike in Cases is Likely Due to People Ignoring the Shelter-in-Place Order, County Health Officer Says

Fennell to Appoint Former Harbor Commissioner Ronnie Pellegrini to the Planning Commission

Against Public Health Advice, Bear River Casino Plans to Reopen a Week From Sunday

County Officials Agree to Ask State for Permission to Loosen Restrictions and Open More Local Businesses

Local Coalition Advances Plan to Remove Scott Dam on the Eel River, Acquire Potter Valley Project From PG&E

(UPDATED) The Planning Commission Approved a $1.5M Trail Through Manila, But Critics Say They May Appeal

Planning Commission Denies Permit to Rebuild a Fallen Billboard South of Eureka

‘Don’t Let My Mom Die Alone’: Local Man Distraught as COVID Policies Prevent His Dad from Visiting His Mom in Hospital

Supervisors Quibble Over Details of Eviction Moratorium, Agree to Form Groundwater Agency for Eel River Basin

(VIDEO) Beware of Unreliable Products in ‘the Wild West of Testing’ Available Commercially, County Health Officer Says

California Can Begin Reopening This Week, Gov. Newsom Announces

(VIDEO) Sheriff Honsal Addresses His Claim to be the County’s ‘Protector of Constitutional Rights’

April 2020

Nordic Aquafarms Expands Aquaculture Facility Plans, Releases Images Showing What the Fish Farm Would Look Like

(VIDEO) The County Tested 230 People Today and Expects to Keep That Rate Up, Health Officer Says

Supervisors Pass Eviction Moratorium, Preventing Landlords from Kicking Out Tenants Who’ve Suffered Economic Losses from COVID-19

Why Is Humboldt County’s $17M Windfall in CARES Act Funding for COVID Relief Going to the Airport, Of All Places?

(VIDEO) Locals Will Soon Be Able to Sign Up Online for a COVID-19 Test, Without Needing a Referral, County Health Officer Says

With Final Election Results In, Supervisor Fennell Faces Runoff With Bushnell, Local Dems See Power Shift

Hoopa Valley Tribe Receives Limited Supply of Rapid COVID-19 Tests, Which Give Results in Under 15 Minutes

(VIDEO) Loosening Shelter Restrictions Will Increase COVID Cases, But We Can’t Stay Like This Forever, County Health Officer Says

Eureka Target Employees Dispute Company’s Claims About Safety Precautions Following COVID Case

Confined and In Conflict? Humboldt Mediation Services is Offering Help Via Videoconferencing During Shut-In

(VIDEO) Supervisor Mike Wilson Recruits Friends for Quarantine Singalong ‘Alone Together’

An Employee at Eureka Target Tested Positive for COVID-19; Worker Had No Contact With Customers, Public Health Says

(VIDEO) County Will Start Providing Numbers for People Released from Quarantine Starting Next Week

COVID Has Hit the Local Economy Hard, But Officials Say There’s Still Cause for Optimism

(VIDEO) 170 Inmates Have Been Released from Jail, But Crime is Down During COVID Outbreak, Sheriff Says

New Testing Method Could Allow the County to Run 160 COVID-19 Tests Per Day, County Health Officer Says

In Their First-Ever ‘Virtual Meeting,’ County Supervisors Address Community Complaints About COVID Response

Local Business Owners Struggling Through Confusion, Delays in Effort to Secure Federal Relief Funds

(VIDEO) How Do You Know We Haven’t Hit Peak COVID? Also, Why Does Trump Lie? County Health Officer Responds to Latest Media Questions

(VIDEO) Sheriff Honsal Says COVID-19 Rules Can Be a Bit Looser in Our Rural Region

(VIDEO) Local Band The Oyster Baes Practice Social Distancing in Pajama Pants in New Music Video

(VIDEO) Sheriff Billy Honsal on Whether Criminals are Sheltering in Place, How Many People Have Been Released From Jail Due to COVID-19 and More

(VIDEO) Is Takeout Essential? Are Homeless People Being Tested? Should Older Supervisors Stay Home? County Health Officer Answers Media Questions

‘I Worry I Could Be Spreading It’: Local FedEx Drivers Say They’re Not Getting Enough COVID-19 Protections

Driver Runs Stop Sign, T-Bones Eureka Police Cruiser, EPD Says

Tour of the Unknown Coast Cycling Event Canceled Due to (You Guessed It) COVID-19

Humboldt Has More COVID-19 Cases Per Capita Than Two-Thirds of the Counties in California

March 2020

Lawsuit Accuses Humboldt County Judge of Drunkenly Attacking an Attorney, Throwing Him Off a Boat, and Says County Employees Tried to Cover It Up