July 2025

The Public Defender’s Office is Overworked, Underfunded and Housed in a Truly Shitty Old Building, Civil Grand Jury Report Finds

Duffy Aims to Calm Turmoil in Blue Lake; City May Have Violated Open Meeting Law Again, Expert Says

Pedestrian Dies After Being Struck By a Humboldt Transit Authority Bus in Valley West

Blue Lake City Council Set to Hire Former County Supervisor Jill Duffy as New Interim City Manager

Hospice of Humboldt Just Doubled Its Capacity for Inpatient Care, and It Aims to Double Palliative Care By Next Year

Local Bare-Knuckle Fighter Ryan Petersen Looks to Go 3-0 at Main Event Tonight in Philly

Humboldt’s Civil Grand Jury Issues Reports on the County’s Unfunded Pension Liabilities, Animal Rescue Network, Inmate Voting Rights and More

Under Pressure From the State, Blue Lake City Council Adopts an Updated Housing Element; PLUS: New Councilmember Appointed

Blue Lake’s Ex-Mayor Wants Most of the City Council Recalled, But First She Wants Them to Appoint Her to Join Them.

‘It’s Just Gone’: GOP Funding Cuts for Public Media Pose Existential Threat to KEET-TV, Station’s GM Says

Humboldt County Asks U.S. Supreme Court to Deny Review of Cannabis Fine Case

Amid Controversy, Trinidad City Council Narrowly Opts to Pursue a Study on an Alternate Water Supply

Stobaugh’s Release Denied: Judge Reverses Previous Order, Saying Serial Rapist Remains a Threat to Public

Witnesses Testify That Sexually Violent Predator Richard Stobaugh Possessed Child Porn While Confined in State Hospital

‘Devastating’: Local Health Care Leaders and Organizations React to the Passage of Trump’s Big Bill

Trinidad to Reconsider Joining Engineering Study for Water Pipeline Extension as Rancheria Connection Project Moves Forward

Meredith Matthews Leaving Executive Director Gig at Arcata Chamber to Lead Humboldt Lodging Alliance

June 2025

CHP Officer Fatally Shoots a Blood-Covered Man Who ‘Aggressively’ Charged Officers With a Knife, Agency Reports

State Threatens Blue Lake With Hefty Fines and Legal Action for Failure to Adopt a Compliant Housing Element

Eureka City Schools Approves $4M Sale of Jacobs Campus for New CHP Headquarters

Blue Lake City Council Nixes Agreement With Energy Developer for Controversial Battery Storage Facility

The State Wants to Secure an Exclusive Right to Buy the Vacant Jacobs Campus From Eureka City Schools for $4M

‘Know Your Rights’: Centro del Pueblo Hosting Assembly in Arcata Tonight in Response to L.A. Immigration Raids

New Residential Detox Center Planned at Former Hartsook Inn Property Near Richardson Grove

Attorney General Says Providence is Trying to ‘Shirk Its Duty’ to Follow the Law In Emergency Abortion Care Suit

Climate Change and Tariffs are Jacking Up Costs for Local Coffee Roasters and Dick Taylor Craft Chocolates

[UPDATED] Blue Lake City Council Scrutinizes City’s Involvement in Partially Completed Bike and Skate Park

May 2025

BREAKING: Blue Lake City Councilmember Christopher Firor Abruptly Resigns

Blue Lake City Council Approves Nine-Month Timeline to Reach Compliance With State Housing Law

SERVED: Three Blue Lake Council Members Were Handed Recall Notices at Tonight’s Meeting

Former Head of St. Joseph Hospital’s Open Heart Program Doesn’t Appreciate Being Blamed for Reduction in Services

Ospreys Built a Nest Atop Electrical Equipment at PG&E’s Humboldt Generating Station. The Utility Wants to Move It Without Harming the Birds

DA’s Office Will Not Charge Man Who Drove With Unrestrained Toddler on Truck Flatbed, Leading to Death

[UPDATED] There Will Be No Horse Racing at This Year’s Humboldt County Fair

Blue Lake City Council Finalizes Separation Agreement With Former City Manager Mandy Mager, Appoints Finance Manager Dani Burkhart as Acting Replacement

Judge Denies St. Joseph Health’s Motion to Dismiss State Lawsuit Over Emergency Abortion Care

With the City Manager’s Abrupt Exit, Blue Lake Residents Mount Recall Effort Against Three Council Members

Placement Hearing for Sexually Violent Predator Delayed by Missed Filing Deadline; Prosecutor Alleges Stobaugh Possessed Child Pornography in State Hospital

Administrators, Teachers and Staff in Klamath-Trinity Allege Fiscal Mismanagement as Schools Face Possible Funding Cuts from Trump Administration

April 2025

A Major Cascadia Zone Earthquake Could Cause Much of Coastal Humboldt to Rapidly Drop Into the Sea, New Study Finds

Voters Approved a New One-Cent Countywide Sales Tax. Here’s How the Supervisors Decided to Allocate It.

PBS NewsHour Reports From Eureka on the Limits of Reproductive Health Care at Catholic-Run Hospitals

Trial of Man Charged With Making Terrorist Threats to Local Schools Delayed to Evaluate His Competency

Supervisors Approve Letter of Opposition to Bill That Would Redefine ‘Customary Maintenance’ on Billboards

In Bold Smash-and-Grab at Harry Ritchie’s, Thief Makes Off With $20 Worth of Fake Jewelry, Eureka Police Say

Here’s Why Travis Schneider’s Half-Built Mansion Has Yet to be Torn Down

Amid Looming Tariffs, Folding Newspapers and Unpaid Invoices, a Humboldt County Printing Press Struggles for Survival

With Its Maine Project Dead, Nordic Aquafarms is Seeking New Investors and Facing a Longer Timeline for Its Land-Based Fish Factory on the Samoa Peninsula

[UPDATE: Found] Eureka Police Issue ‘Silver Alert’ for a Missing 70-Year-Old Woman

Humboldt Community Services District Agrees to Pursue Annexation of North McKay Ranch Subdivision Site