Articles by Hank Sims

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

County’s Environmental Health Division Shuts Down Moonstone Grill Due to Rat Infestation

IT’S ELECTION NIGHT! We’ll be Updating Here With Results and Pictures From Candidates’ Victory Parties, if We Can Find Any

February 2024

In This Time of Cold and Rainy Weather, the Rescue Mission Could Use Some Help

Remember — Fernbridge is Gonna Be Offline Tonight and Most of the Weekend