Articles by Ryan Burns

July 2017

Here’s the Documentation You’ll Need to Keep the Sheriff’s Office From Busting Your Weed Grow

Score Another One for Bomb-Bot! Sheriff’s Office Robot Puts Suspicious Object in its Belly and Safely Blows it Up

Eureka City Council Signs Resolution in Support of Paris Climate Accord

Eureka Police Respond to a Report of Armed Residential Robbery on Sixth Street

(UPDATED) A Team of Rescuers is Trying to Save a Humpback Whale That’s Been Tangled in Fishing Gear Since Last Week

Eureka Mayor Frank Jager Was Employed by Coroner’s Office and Acting as Executor of Estates During Period Under Investigation for Corruption

Fortuna City Manager Mark Wheetley Arrested for DUI, a Year and a Half After His Last DUI Arrest

Eureka Wins Competitive Bid to Have Downtown Area Certified as One of the State’s First Official Cultural Districts

Fire in Fortuna Mobile Home Park Kills 76-Year-Old Resident

(PHOTOS) Check Out The New Mural Being Painted in Old Town Eureka

(UPDATE) (PHOTOS/VIDEO) Sheriff’s Deputy Spots Stolen Truck, Leading to Arrest at Gunpoint Near Nilsen Feed in Eureka

Myers Flat Man Drowns While Surfing in Shelter Cove

DA Maggie Fleming Calls In FBI, State Attorney General for Sheriff’s Office Corruption Investigation

Cutten School District Will Pay $260,000 for Improperly Enrolling Eureka Kids

At Least Four Sheriff’s Office Employees Bought Dead People’s Belongings Through Public Administrator; They’ve Now Been Asked to Return Them

‘Get to Know a District’ Part Eight Explores the ‘Nonsensical Distinctions’ along Eureka’s Waterfront

June 2017

‘No Reason to Think This Hasn’t Gone On For Years’: Sheriff Honsal Speaks on Corruption Inquiry

Open Door Working to Address Local Shortage of Primary Care Providers Through Its Nurse Residency Program

Giddings Convicted of Second-Degree Murder for 2015 Arcata Drug Killing; Huntzinger Acquitted on All Charges

Notorious Landlords Floyd and Betty Squires Challenge Small Claims Ruling, Promptly Get Denied

Dr. Michael Fratkin Let Go as Head of St. Joseph Health’s Palliative Care Program

Local Planned Parenthood Affiliate Lights Up a Redwood Tree in Pink to Show Opposition to Trumpcare

Early-Morning Fire Consumes Several Businesses in Downtown Eureka

County Unemployment Rate Keeps Falling, Hits Lowest Mark Since 1980s (At Least)

Clam Beach Named Most Polluted Beach in California by Watchdog Group

Confessions of a Fair-Weather Warriors Fan (An Over-Serious Response to Devoted Lakers Fan Thadeus Greenson)

Supervisors Consider Changes to Cannabis Ordinance as Public Expresses a Variety of Concerns

Help Eureka Redraw Its Ward Boundaries Now That Wards Actually Matter

Eureka Finally Backs Away From Beach Disposal Approach, Now Plans to Dump Bay’s Dredge Spoils Offshore

Arcata Calls in Outside Investigators, Approves $21K Reward for Info Leading to Conviction of Lawson Killer

Firefighter Cannot Wear ‘Black Lives Matter’ Lapel Pin: Humboldt Bay Fire Board Upholds Chief’s Order

Local Firefighter Files Grievance After Being Told to Remove a ‘Black Lives Matter’ Lapel Pin From His Uniform

Introducing Humboldt’s Flying Squirrel, a Newly Discovered Species of Rodent That Glides Through Our Forests

May 2017

(PHOTOS, VIDEOS) Behold! Duane Flatmo Reveals His Latest Flame-Throwing Art Car Design, ‘Rabid Transit’

Peninsula School Superintendent-Principal Comes Out as Transgender

Amid Funding Troubles, County Library Struggles With Increased Crime, Drug Use and Homelessness

TICKS! County Explains How to Protect Yourself From These Disgusting, Blood-Sucking, Disease-Ridden Hellspawn

Humboldt’s Homeless Numbers Down More Than 40 Percent From Two Years Ago, According to Preliminary Count

Eureka Councilmember Marian Brady Says ‘Cowardly’ Trinity Supervisors ‘Wimped Out’ and Ruined Humboldt’s Bright Future

In Email to Sundberg, EPA Reaffirms Opposition to Beach Disposal of Dredge Spoils, But Eureka Official Insists It’s the Best Option

Supervisor Ryan Sundberg Appeals to National EPA Official on Marina Dredge Disposal

Senator McGuire to Hold Hearing on Collapse of Local Salmon Fishery

Check Out The Arcata High Student’s Digital Art Piece That Won This Year’s Congressional Art Competition

DA Finds No Wrongdoing in Last Year’s Fatal Officer-Involved Shooting in McKinleyville

New Marijuana Trade Group Introduces Itself: ‘We Are the Seed Hunters, Carriers of the Torch, Innovators and Pioneers’

State Kicks Down $1.5M for Cleanup of Illegal Weed Grow Operations in the Emerald Triangle

St. Joseph Hospital President Dr. David O’Brien Announces Resignation

Supervisors Ponder How Strict to Be With Cannabis Cultivators

Local Students Win State History Day Competition, Head to Nationals

EPA Says Eureka, Harbor District Should Have Known Dredging Disposal on the Beach Wouldn’t be Allowed