Articles by Ryan Burns

September 2025

Cause of Last Month’s Fatal Shelter Cove Plane Crash Remains Unknown and the Wreckage Unrecovered as Federal Agency Releases Preliminary Report

Cal Fish and Wildlife Investigating Alleged Shooting Death of a Mama Bear and Cub Near Eureka

The State May Soon Pass a Cannabis Tax Cut. Critics Say It Will Cost Kids and the Environment

August 2025

Judge Holds Providence St. Joseph to Prior Agreement as Emergency Abortion Care Lawsuit Proceeds

Inside Juan Pablo Cervantes’s Rush to Organize a Special Election in Less Than Half the Usual Time

We’ll Have to Wait Until October to Finish the Prelim Hearing for Man Charged With Threatening Schools, Businesses

Officers Recount Threatening Phone Calls to Schools During Preliminary Hearing in Trial of Daryl Jones

Artificial Intelligence Has Arrived in Humboldt Commercials, and People Have Opinions

Last Year, a Eureka Man Was Killed by a Driver High on Nitrous. Now His Daughter is Suing the Companies That Supplied It

Long-Delayed Habit Burger Is, In Fact, Still Coming to Eureka, as Is a LOCAL Smashburger Joint

Cooley Out: Humboldt County’s Latest Director of Aviation Lasted Barely Two Months

(VIDEO) Locals Have VERY Close Encounter With Mountain Lion in Arcata Community Forest

Providence’s Effort to Back Out of Emergency Abortion Care Agreement Would Put Humboldt Women ‘Back in Harms’ Way,’ AG’s Office Argues in Latest Court Filing

Blue Lake Recall Effort Falls Short for Two Council Members, But Election Will Proceed for Scafani

Lawsuit Could Force Humboldt County to Regulate Groundwater Pumping in the Eel River Valley

Blue Lake Recall Proponents Submit Signatures to City Hall, But Did They Gather Enough to Trigger an Election?

David Lindberg, Local Water District Board Member, Killed in Motorcycle Collision With a Deer on Hwy. 36

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