Articles by Ryan Burns

April 2018

Happy 4/20! Supervisor Estelle Fennell Elected President of Multi-County California Cannabis Authority

Local Immigrant Rights Groups on Red Alert After Receiving Report That ICE Agents Are in Town

Mercer-Fraser Withdraws Controversial Plans for Glendale Cannabis Extraction Plant and Rezone Request

Busting Pot Farms From Space, Take Two: Supervisors (This Time) Approve Contract for High-Resolution Satellite Monitoring

Meet Your 2018 Humboldt County Superior Court Judge Candidates, Part Two: Lawrence Killoran

Meet Your 2018 Humboldt County Superior Court Judge Candidates, Part One: Lathe Gill

(UPDATE: NOT YET) Busting Pot Farms From Space: Supervisors (MAY) Approve Contract With Company Offering High-Res Satellite Imagery to Assist With Code Enforcement

Hundreds of Kids and Adults Receiving Free Eye Exams and Glasses in Hoopa This Week

Auditor-Controller Taking Taxpayer-Funded Trip to Tahoe for Conference Days Before Leaving Office

Suspect Wanted for Attempted Murder of a 17-Year-Old in Arcata Last Summer Turns Himself In

Here It Is! The Series Finale of Eureka’s Educational and Entertaining ‘Get to Know a Zone District’ Feature

Supervisors Address Weed Tourism, Crime Laws and Auditor-Controller Drama During Busy Meeting

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