March 2024

ELECTION TALLY UPDATE: Assembly Hopeful Chris Rogers is Big in Sonoma. Will That be Enough?

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

YOU VOTE YET? If Not, Here Are Your Options for Doing Your Civic Duty Today and Tomorrow

February 2024

Gomez Campaign for County Supervisor Files Overdue Financial Disclosure Forms

CAMPAIGN $$$ ROUNDUP: Incumbent Supervisors Raise and Spend More Than Challengers; Gomez Campaign Refuses to Answer Finance Questions

April Van Dyke, Candidate for Superior Court Judge, on Her Upbringing, Racial Disparities in the Justice System, Why She Sued Her Former Employer and More

MORE ELECTION LIMERICKS! Is There Any Place in the World More Inept at Writing Limericks Than Humboldt County?

JUDGE RACE: Deputy District Attorney Launches Write-In Bid; Van Dyke Issues Statement on Her Facial Paralysis

Judge Kreis Granted An Extra Week to Respond to Formal Misconduct Investigation

5,500 Locals Have Already Voted in the Primary, a ‘Surprisingly High’ Early Turnout, Says County Registrar of Voters

Supervisor Forums! The KEET/League of Women Voters Debates are In the Books, and Here’s a Place for You to Catch Up on What Was Said

All Six State Assembly Candidates Set to Face Off in Blue Lake Friday Evening

ELECTION LIMERICK ROUNDUP! Here’s the First Batch of Political Poetry Sent to LoCO. We Tried to Be Forgiving.

Judge Tosses Suit From ‘Citizens for a Better Eureka’ Backers Accusing the City of Violating Elections Code

It’s ELECTION LIMERICK Time Once Again! Please Send Us Your Letters of Support For Local Candidates and Measures, But Only in the Form of a Limerick

Housing for All Backers (Meaning Security National, Really) Have Outspent Opponents by Margin of 163-1

January 2024

Security National Has Spent at Least $236,000 on the Pro-Parking ‘Housing for All’ Initiative So Far

Let the Debate Forums Begin! KEET, League of Women Voters Announce Schedule for Televised Supervisorial Candidate Forums

Governor Gavin Newsom Endorses Rusty Hicks for Assembly

Trinidad Rancheria Urges a ‘No’ Vote on Measure A, the ‘Cannabis Reform Initiative’

Hoopa Valley Tribe Endorses Measure A, the ‘Cannabis Reform Initiative’

December 2023

Yurok Vice Chair Frankie Myers Discusses His Assembly Campaign, the Power of Representation and the Unique Voice He’d Bring to Sacramento

Judge Denies Effort to Keep Measure A, the ‘Humboldt Cannabis Reform Initiative,’ Off the March Ballot

Assemblymember Jim Wood Endorses Rusty Hicks in Crowded Race to Be His Successor

BREAKING: At Re-election Campaign Launch, Judge Kreis Says Lawsuit Against Him Has Been Settled

The Spring Ballot is Set Which Means it’s Time for the Glorious Return of LoCO Elections, Your Q&A-With-the-Candidates Site

Stage Set for County’s March Primary Election: Five Challengers Face Three Incumbent Supervisors

Judge Gregory Kreis Announces Re-Election Campaign, Will Hold Rally at the Gazebo Wednesday

Third District Supervisor Mike Wilson Announces Re-election Campaign; Roy Gomez Running Against Him

November 2023

Yurok Tribe Vice Chairman Frankie Myers Declares Candidacy for State Assembly District 2 Seat

Santa Rosa Councilmember Chris Rogers Announces Campaign for State Assembly Seat

INTERVIEW: Rusty Hicks, California Democratic Party Chair, on How He ‘Fell in Love’ With the North Coast and Decided to Run for State Assembly

California Democratic Party Chair Rusty Hicks, Now an Arcata Resident, Launches Run for State Assembly Seat Being Vacated by Jim Wood

Proponents and Opponents of Measure A, the Humboldt Cannabis Reform Initiative, Square Off at a Public Forum in Arcata

October 2023

Eureka Council Sends Pro-Parking ‘Housing for All’ Initiative to November 2024 Election Ballots

Backers of Pro-Parking Lot ‘Housing for All’ Initiative Say They’ve Filed a Lawsuit Against the City of Eureka Because They Believe They Should be on the Spring Ballot Rather Than the Fall Ballot

Incumbents Sweep Yurok Tribal Council Elections

BE A POLL WORKER! The County’s Gearing Up for Election Season, and it Invites You to Get in On the Most Civic-Minded Side Hustle Out There

August 2023

A Rex Challenger Emerges: Gordon Clatworthy Announces Candidacy for Humboldt County Board of Supervisors’ First District Seat

Supervisor Rex Bohn is Soliciting Donations for Re-election Campaign Without the Required Paperwork

(PHOTOS) ‘1 More Time!’ Rex Bohn Launches Campaign for Fourth Term on Humboldt’s Board of Supervisors

July 2023

Humboldt County Will Soon Transition to Voter’s Choice-Style Elections, and the County Wants Your Input

December 2022

The Final Results of the November 6 Election Are In, and The Results Are What You Now Expect Them to Be

November 2022

EARTH FLAG RESURGENT! Cervantes, Fernandez, De Loach and Ryan Easy Winners With Most Votes Counted, and It Looks Like That Earth Flag Will Hang High in Arcata

NEW ELECTION REPORT! Fernandez Pulls Ahead in Eureka Ward 3 With 9,614 Additional Votes Tallied; Arcata Earth Flag Back in Play

With 10,000 More Ballots Counted, Cervantes Pulls Farther Ahead; Fullerton Lead Shrinks; Around 20,000 Ballots Still to be Tallied

POLLZ: Please Tell Us Who You Think Won the Election, Because We Don’t Know

ELECTION RESULTS: Few Votes Counted on Election Night, Leaving Many Races Up in the Air; Matthews, White Look Like Locks in Arcata

(UPDATING) ELECTION NIGHT RESULTS! Follow Live! All the Vote Counts as They Happen, Plus Scene Reports From the Parties! The Thrill of Victory, the Agony of Defeat!

The Last-Minute Voter’s Guide to Actually Filling Out and Turning in Your Damn Ballot!