Articles by Ryan Burns
March 2018
Embattled Auditor-Controller Joe Mellett Resigns Nine Months Before His Term Ends
County Supervisors Ease Tax Burden on Weed Growers, Hire Attorneys to Sue Big Pharma’s Opioid Manufacturers
Here It Comes! Tsunami Preparedness Week Hits the North Coast.
(PHOTOS) These Historical Postcards Show Arcata’s McKinley Statue Through the Years
Here’s What People Had to Say About the County’s Comprehensive New Weed Ordinance, Including the Proposed Cultivation Permit Cap
County Supervisors Met Monday to Start Deliberating on Proposed New Weed Regs, Including a Permit Cap
Eureka Police Officers Respond to Reported Drive By, Find Nothing But Shell Casings in the Road
Congratulations, DA Fleming, Sheriff Honsal and These Five Other Candidates Who Basically Already Won Because They Will Have No Opponents on June’s Election Ballot
‘Extremely Intoxicated’ Man Drives Poorly and Brandishes Sawed-Off Shotgun at Officer Before Being Arrested, Says EPD
(PHOTOS) Five Loaded Assault Rifles Found Along Van Duzen River Bar, Sheriff’s Office Says
Herrmann Spetzler, CEO of Open Door Health Centers for More Than 40 Years, Has Died
Yurok Tribes Files Federal Lawsuit Against Big Pharma Companies Over Opioid Epidemic
Woman Allegedly Shoved to the Ground and Robbed While Walking Dog at Mad River Beach
California Has Already Issued More than 2,000 Cannabis Cultivation Licenses. Are Growers Being Set Up to Fail?
(PHOTOS) Crab Fishermen Rescue Young Deer That Was About to Drown Near Humboldt Bay Entrance
The County Accidentally Issued Incomplete W2 Tax Forms to More Than 1,000 Employees; Most Are Still Waiting for Their Corrected Versions
February 2018
Still Dealing With Declining Enrollment, Eureka City Schools Threatens to Sue Alder Grove Charter School
Body Found Near College of the Redwoods in September Identified as Man Who Went Missing in 2015
Facing a ‘Looming Fiscal Emergency,’ HSU Announces Plan to Slash Budget by $9 Million
(PHOTOS, VIDEO) Brrrr!
Flaws in County System for Reporting Child Abuse and Neglect Triggered a State Investigation. Here’s What’s Changing As a Result.
‘You Are Sucking Us Dry’: Growers Descend on Supervisors Meeting to Protest Cannabis Fees, Taxes
(PHOTOS) Car Knocked Onto Its Side As Accident Closes Two Lanes of I Street in Eureka
County Asking Public for Input on Final Section of Humboldt Bay Trail, Connecting Eureka and Arcata
Supervisors Move to Create a Standing Committee to Address Homelessness; Will Consider Declaring a Shelter Crisis Later This Month
January 2018
With Controversial Project Heading to Board, Mercer-Fraser President Flew County Supervisor and Staff to Sacramento Event in a Private Plane
PHONE SCAM ALERT: Someone’s Impersonating Humboldt Superior Court Staff and Demanding Fine Money
Congressman Huffman Invites Transgender Marine Corps Vet to Trump’s State of the Union Address
Another Humboldt County Judge Retires: John Feeney Stepping Down From the Bench Next Month
California Growers Association Sues State Over Loophole in Pot Farm Size Limits
Supervisors Consider Modifying or Repealing County’s Ban on Raw Milk
Judge Dale Reinholtsen To Retire After Two Decades on Humboldt Superior Court Bench
Man Arrested for Walking Through McKinleyville With Loaded Rifle, Sheriff’s Office Says
Just ‘Cause Weed’s Legal Now Doesn’t Mean You Can Smoke (or Ingest or Vape) It In Public, Eureka Reminds You
Eureka Increases Amount Being Given to Squires Evictees as They Scramble to Find New Housing
Man and Woman Arrested After Being Found Asleep Inside Truck With AR-15, Meth, Ammo, Syringes, Says Sheriff’s Office
Planning Commission Approves Mercer-Fraser Rezone Request, Sending Proposed Marijuana Extraction Plant Project to Board of Supervisors
Water District Says Proposed Mercer-Fraser Marijuana Facility Threatens Health and Safety of Two of Every Three County Residents
If You Want to Weigh In on the County’s Commercial Cannabis Land Use Ordinance, Thursday’s Your Chance
HOMELESSNESS: After Years of Public Pleas to Declare a Shelter Crisis, Supes Form Committee to Consider It
Jesse Crumb, Eureka Resident and Son of Famed Cartoonist Robert Crumb, Dies After New Year’s Eve Car Crash in SoHum
Lawmakers and Activists Blast Trump’s Move to Open Virtually All U.S. Waters to Offshore Drilling
Does Eureka Have Too Much Land Zoned Coastal-Dependent Industrial? Ponder Over the Penultimate Installment of ‘Get to Know a Zone District’
Drug Task Force Finds Suspected Heroin and Meth, Arrests Two After Serving Search Warrant in Eureka
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions to Rescind Obama-Era Memo Protecting States’ Rights on Marijuana Legalization
In Politically Rejiggered Eureka, John Fullerton and Jeannie Breslin Enter City Council Race
(UPDATE: FOUND) Young Nevada Man Missing After Staying at Eureka Motel
Pair of Local Marijuana Entrepreneurs, Including Founder of Jack’s Hand Cleaner, Busted in Tennessee Airport With More Than 150 Pounds of Weed, Cops Say
Recreational Weed Sales Are Brisk as Second Humboldt Retail Outlet Gets State License
Sheriff’s Office Investigating Drive-By House Shooting in Big Lagoon