Articles by LoCO Staff

October 2025

Arcata City Council: Future Housing Struggles, Roger’s Garage EIR Funded. Also, Your Water Bill is Going Up (Eventually. Probably.)

(UPDATE) ‘Bracing for Impacts’: SNAP Benefits and Women, Infants & Children Funding Will Go Away Next Month if the Shutdown Continues, Humboldt County Health and Human Services Warns

OBITUARY: Lucy Anne (Santino) Quinby, 1942-2025

OBITUARY: Marian Jean Christiansen, 1929-2025

OBITUARY: Juanita May (Sullivan) Anderson, 1929-2025

OBITUARY: Elizabeth Iva Woods, 1934-2025

OBITUARY: Mary Jane Perkins, 1935-2025

READY YOUR EYEBALLS: Eureka to Revive its Utility Box Art Program

GUEST OPINION: Stop Sprawl, Support Infill — Or, Let’s Plan For New Housing in the Towns Where People Want to Live

Sheriff’s Office Asks Public for Any Information They May Have About the Disappearance of Emmilee Risling Four Years Ago

OBITUARY: Stanley Daniel Stevens II, 1985-2025

OBITUARY: Yvonne Marie (LaFlame) Jones, 1941-2025

OBITUARY: Michael Shaun Dolan, 1965-2025

On the Second Anniversary of His Disappearance, Sheriff’s Office Seeks Public’s Help in the Case of a Hmong Man Who Was Working in Southern Humboldt

Woman Arrested for Public Intoxication, Child Endangerment on Mad River Road Saturday Night

RALLY for O+! Blood Bank Desperately Needs You ‘O’ Types Who Are On the Positive Tip to Give, Give, Give

OBITUARY: Loren Russell Jaques, 1947-2025

OBITUARY: Craig Charles Hansen, 1951-2025

OBITUARY: Dianne E. Luzzi, 1940-2025

OBITUARY: George Allan (‘Jim’) Hurt, 1930-2025

Attorney General’s Office Files New Motion for Preliminary Injunction in St. Joseph Emergency Abortion Care Case

Search Warrants Served on Illegal Weed Grows Deep in SoHum; Big Fines Expected, Says Sheriff’s Office

Faulty Woodstove Leads to House Fire Near Harris Street This Morning

Rio Dell Man Arrested in Connection With Loleta Glass-Bottle Assault, Sheriff’s Office Says

Your Annual Reminder That the First Rains of the Year Always Equal Slick Roads

OBITUARY: Orion Morrissey Nelson, 1999-2025

OBITUARY: Merel E. Babcock, 1931-2025

OBITUARY: Daryl Dan Arrance, 1949-2025

OBITUARY: Angie Depew, 1959-2025

Suspect in Flamingo Motel Standoff Set Fire to Things in His Room, Spit on Hospital Staff, Police Say

Sonoma County Supervisor James Gore Drops Out of the Race to Replace State Sen. Mike McGuire

Big Police Presence on Broadway as First Responders Deal With Person Apparently Barricaded Inside the Flamingo Motel

DHHS Lifts Advisory for Harmful Algal Blooms

Humboldt Emergency Services Manager Ryan Derby Takes His Talents to Sacramento

OBITUARY: Darren Albert Toland, 1970-2025

Foster Clean Power: New Solar Energy and Battery Storage Project Launched Near Arcata

OBITUARY: Ricky Wright, 1939-2025

They’ve Canceled That Big Prescribed Burn Near Redway For Now, But Calfire Will Go North to Burn Up Some of Cuneo Creek Instead

Trump Administration Appears to Claw Back $88 Million Grant for Local Tribal Energy Resilience Project

OBITUARY: Roger Hardaway, 1939-2025

OBITUARY: Timothy (Tim) Brent Mendoza, 1957-2025

OBITUARY: Avery Gallacci, 1956-2025

OBITUARY: Beverly Ann Dame, 1940-2025

New Research Suggests That Trespass Grows Scar the Land for Longer Than You Might Have Thought

Big Prescribed Burn Planned for the Redway Area This Week, and It’ll Likely Affect Highway Traffic

OBITUARY: Joe M. Avelar, 1938-2025

OBITUARY: John Wiebe, 1930-2025

OBITUARY: Robert Dean McConkey, 1944-2025

OBITUARY: Ruth Morris, 1941-2025

LoCO SPORTS! Would You Believe That Every Last One of Those High-Flying Redwood Coast Gymnasts Qualified for State?