Articles by Hank Sims
November 2024
Prepare for Power Outages and Road Slides! A Big Atmospheric River Will Spill Over Humboldt This Week, National Weather Service Predicts
With Only About 8,000 Humboldt County Votes Left to Tally, The Results are All the Same as They Were On Election Night — and are Now All But Certain (Except in Blue Lake)
Final Election Night Report! With Perhaps Half the Vote Counted, the Status Quo Looks Like a Lock in Eureka
The Election So Far! Humboldt’s Early Voting is a Bit Slower Than Four Years Ago, But There’s Still Plenty of Time and Ways to Cast Your Ballot
October 2024
Several Dozen ‘Housing For All’ Signs Illegally Placed On Telephone Poles Around Town Over the Weekend
PRESCRIBED BURN ROUNDUP: Big, Good Fires Planned Today and Tomorrow in the Blue Lake and Scotia Areas, Respectively, Weather Permitting
Another Eureka School Briefly Went on Lockdown in Response to Threats Tuesday Evening
Humboldt’s HOPE Coalition Has Again Assembled Its Handy-Dandy ‘Who’s Voting How on the Propositions’ Table
Eureka Police Department Seems to Say That Yesterday’s EHS Lockdown Involved Two Separate Threats, One After The Other, Or Something Like That
(UPDATING) Pro-Palestine Demonstrations Return to Cal Poly Humboldt on the Anniversary of Last Year’s Hamas Attack
September 2024
‘WE HAVE TO TAKE A STAND’: Law Enforcement, Businessfolk, Government Officials Push for Tougher-on-Crime Proposition 36 at Noontime Rally
YEAR in REVIEW: It Was a Pretty Wet Year. And We Don’t Know Whether Next Year Will be Wet or Dry
(UPDATE) How the Measure F Campaign is Going
Eureka City Council Unanimously Adopts 518-Page Bike Plan, a Master Plan for Human-Powered Transportation Improvements Throughout the City
In a Special Session, Board of Supervisors Narrowly Votes to ‘Accept the Resignation’ of Aviation Director Cody Roggatz
Trump Vows to Ship Northern California Water to Beverly Hills, Also to Reverse the Flow of Rivers Back Up Into the Hills to Soak the Ground and Thereby Prevent Forest Fire
Twenty-Six Years After They Were Stranded There By Floods, The Balloon Track’s Zombie Trains Are Finally Moving Out — Mostly in Pieces
(PICTURES) A New Monument at Berry Summit Will Honor the Legendary Horse Mountain Skiing Scene
BEER and BALLOT MEASURES! Your Lost Coast Outpost and CalMatters Are Teaming Up to Throw a Study Party for This Year’s Batch of State Propositions, and You Are Invited!
Future California Senator Adam Schiff is in Town
August 2024
A Week of Wildlife Weirdness at the Arcata Marsh
Eureka Will Have to Wait Two More Years Before it Gets Ranked-Choice Voting
Farewell to The Independent, the Free, Locally Owned Newspaper That Has Served Southern Humboldt for Decades
PLANT DISMANTLED: They’ll Be Auctioning Off All Sun Valley Floral Farms’ Infrastructure Next Month
The Outpost Must Say Farewell to Not One But (Soon) Two of Its Star Reporters
LoCO INVESTIGATES: That Kid Playing Violin in the Winco Parking Lot Actually Is Playing His Violin, and He and His Kid Brother Rule
July 2024
SFGate on the International Knuckleheads Who Fly Here to Illegally Climb Hyperion for Social Media Clout
Want to Run For City Council in the Fall? Now’s the Time to Get On It!
TODAY: Mike McGuire is the Governor of the State of California
June 2024
In Its Final Report of the Year, Grand Jury Concludes That the Child Welfare Services Ombudsperson is Falling Short of the Role Defined For it When the County Settled a Big State Lawsuit
(UPDATE: PHOTOS OF THE CRASH) Airplane Makes Emergency Landing in the Humboldt Bay National Wildlife Refuge Across From CR
(PHOTOS) Another Urban Bear Mama and Cub Spotted in Arcata This Evening
INTRODUCING: The Humboldt Handy! Your Go-To Spot When You Need a Plumber, Electrician, Roofer, Painter, or Just About Any Kind of Building Contractor
(VIDEO) There are Bears in the Tree By Pierson’s
Fatal Single-Vehicle Car Crash Into Bayside Grange Early This Morning; Power Out Across Bayside, Sunny Brae
May 2024
I Street Closed in Downtown Eureka Following Huge, Multivehicle Crash; Pedestrian Struck
¿HISPANOHABLANTE? El Lost Coast Outpost Ahora Está Disponible en Español
NEVER A BOTHER: Florence Parks on How to be There for Kids in Crisis
April 2024
(UPDATE: NIGHT DEMONSTRATION) Calm Before Storm? It Was Washing Day at the Cal Poly Humboldt Occupation on its One-Week Anniversary
(PHOTOS/VIDEO) Protesters Open Cal Poly Humboldt’s Siemens Hall After Day of Tension Waiting For a Raid That Has Yet to Come
(UPDATING) Deputies Shoot Man Believed to Have Shot Elderly Woman in Cutten This Morning; Fern and Cedar Streets Closed
The Outpost Must Say Farewell to Longtime Reporter Stephanie McGeary
(UPDATING) Major Pro-Palestine Protests at Cal Poly Humboldt Provoke Massive Police Response; Protesters Occupy Siemens Hall; Reports of Violent Force Between Activists and Law Enforcement
Have You Written an Obituary Recently? A Humboldt Expat Studying at the University of Chicago Would Like to Have a Conversation With You About the Person You Eulogized
A Local Child Who Runs Wants Other Children to Know That There is a Way to Get Free Running Shoes if Their Families Can’t Afford Them
PLOUGHSHARES to SWORDS: Cal Poly Humboldt Welcome Sign Weaponized in the Struggle for Middle East Peace
The Great Redwood Trail Agency Has Unveiled Its Draft Master Plan, and it Has Some Big Dreams for Alderpoint, Among Other Things
March 2024
ELECTION TALLY UPDATE: Almost All the Votes Are Counted Now, and the People Who You Thought Were Winning Did In Fact Win
ELECTION TALLY UPDATE: About 6,800 More Votes Counted; Nothing Has Changed Except There Are Even More Ballots Left to Count Than Had Been Previously Supposed
Activists to Turn Up Heat on Scotia Biomass Power Plant at Energy Authority’s Community Advisory Committee Meeting Tonight
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