Articles by Hank Sims
March 2025
CONGRATULATIONS, ZAC! Arcata is Home to One of the National Waste and Recycling Association’s Very Best Drivers of the Year
PROGRAMMING NOTE: The Fortuna Police Logs are Back Up and Running, and the University Police Logs Have Been Added
Let’s Practice Tsunami Evacuations Today! If You’re in the Coastal Zone, Your Phone May Buzz at 11 a.m. To Let You Know it is Time to Walk To Safety
Cockroaches Have Set Up Shop in Arcata’s Fourth Street Market, Humboldt County Division of Environmental Health Alleges
TODAY in SUPES: Cannabis Comes and Cannabis Goes; Plus: First 5 Humboldt is Struggling a Little Bit
(UPDATE) Cal Poly Humboldt On Trump Administration’s List of 45 Schools to be Investigated for ‘Race-Exclusionary Practices’
This Recent Stretch of Nice Weather Has Been a Lie
Police Vehicle Rams Utility Pole in Fortuna, Causing Power Outage in the Neighborhood
February 2025
POETS! Can You Beat the Bot and Become Eureka’s Next Poet Laureate?
TODAY in SUPES: Weed and Airplanes, the Ways Humboldt Gets High
Lake County May Try to Derail Eel River Dam Deal With Direct Appeal to President Trump
Santa Rosa City Councilmember Joins Race to Replace Sen. Mike McGuire in 2026
RETURN of the KING! The Eureka Burger King’s Sewage Problems Have Been Sorted Out and Whoppers are Once Again on Offer, Says Public Health
Broadway is a Mess! Stay Away From Broadway Near the Movie Theater for the Next Little While, If at All Possible
BK HAS FALLEN! Eureka Burger King Gets More Bad News, Exactly One Month After it Was First Shut Down For Sewage Probz
Are the Eel River Dams Coming Down? PG&E Releases Final Decommissioning Plan and Will Give a Public Presentation About it Tomorrow
HUMBOLDT HISTORY: The Time There Was No Humboldt History Column in the Lost Coast Outpost
January 2025
After a Bit of a Delay, Humboldt’s New Solar Energy Producer in Kern County is Now Operational
Grief-Stricken County Employees May Get an Extra Day Off to Recover From the Loss of President Jimmy Carter
December 2024
TOP 25 STORIES of 2024: Earthquakes, Foul Weather, Campus Occupations … and Leonardo DiCaprio!
Providence Issues Statement on the Future of St. Joe’s Heart Institute
FERNDALE FIRES BACK! ‘Redwood Trees are not Christmas Trees’ Says 4-H Group in Response to Zoo’s Foolhardy Tall-Tree Declaration
There is Only One Tallest Living Lighted Christmas Tree In the World, and it is in Eureka
Smoky in Trinidad? That’s From Green Diamond Prescribed Burns
It’s HOLIDAY FOOD DRIVE Season! Sen. Mike McGuire Checks in on Post-Quake Humboldt and Reminds Everyone That Food For People is Counting on You
Cal Poly Humboldt Students Will Have to Go Without On-Campus Sushi for a Little While
(VIDEO) The Arcata High Tigers Win North Coast Section Football Championship for the First Time Ever
November 2024
(UPDATE) What Was Up With That Smoke Warning in Eureka Earlier Today?
There is Nothing More American Than the Free Thanksgiving Feast
Humboldt’s Ryan Petersen Brings Home the Win in His First BKFC (Bare Knuckle Fighting) Bout
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
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