January 2018

Stray Humboldt County Mutt Goes on to Become Disaster Search Dog; Assists With Recent Montecito Mudslide Rescue Efforts

Search and Rescue Operation at Mad River Beach Last Night Finds Hikers 150 Yards From the Parking Lot

December 2017

Ring in the New Year by Preparing For Inevitable Disaster, County Health Department Suggests

Sheriff’s Office Rescues Man Lost Two Days in the Woods Between Blue Lake and Willow Creek

FedEx Driver Rescued Near Happy Camp After Route 96 Crash Left Him Stranded Overnight Down Steep Embankment

(UPDATED) Missing HSU Student Erin Henry Likely Fell to Her Death, Arcata Police Chief Says

Arcata Police are Asking for Help Locating This Missing HSU Student Last Seen on Samoa Boulevard A Week Ago

November 2017

Nice Job, Posse! Sheriff’s Office Volunteer Squad Helps to Locate 70-Year-Old Man Who Got Lost While Mushrooming

Boil Water Order Issued for Garberville by State Water Board

Missing Hiker Likely Swept Out to Sea Thursday, Says Sector Humboldt Bay

October 2017

Sheriff’s Office Saves Sinking Boy from Neck-Deep Humboldt Bay Mud

(UPDATE: FOUND) Sheriff’s Office Searching For Missing Cutten 16-Year-Old With Grave Medical Condition

Bomb-Bot Detonates Suspected Explosive Device at Fortuna Home, Officers Later Determine it was Homemade Survival Pack Left Behind by Husband Out Hunting

Mendocino County Sheriff Identifies All Eight People Killed in Redwood Valley Fire, With Help From Assm. Jim Wood

DROP, COVER and HOLD ON! It’s Just About Time for the Great California Shakeout!

Catastrophic Natural Disaster? There’s an App For That! Sheriff’s Office Asks Residents to Register With Their Alert/Information System

Sector Humboldt Bay Rescues Teen Fall Victim Stranded Along 300-Foot-Cliff Face in Crescent City

Evacuation Orders Lifted for Areas of Mendo County, Some People May Return Home by This Afternoon

(UPDATE) Badly Singed Kitty, Sheltering Beneath Car and Surrounded by Burnt Homes, Rescued by Sonoma County Cops

(VIDEO) All-Too-Real Drone Footage Shows Devastation Left by Wine Country Wildfires, Now the Deadliest in California History

INTERNET WOES CONTINUE: Some Businesses, Including the Check-In Counter at the Airport, Are Still Mysteriously Disconnected

Nearly 1,000 Exotic Animals in Santa Rosa Safari Park Threatened by Tubbs Wildfire

(UPDATE) Mendo County’s Potter Valley Evacuated Last Night as Deadly Wildfires Rage Across Northern California

Local Volunteers Drove Loads of Donated Supplies to Help Santa Rosa Fire Victims Last Night

(UPDATE! HALT GIVING!) Donations for Displaced Fire Victims Being Accepted Today at Humboldt Bay Fire Station One in Eureka

State Wildfires Knock Out Local Phone Lines, Including Arcata’s 911 Service

(VIDEO) Local Nurse Who Flew to Puerto Rico for Humanitarian Relief Mission Says Riots Ensued After FEMA Refused to Release Air-Dropped Supplies

(UPDATES) Redwood Acres Locked Down, Harris Street Closed in Both Directions as Emergency Personnel Try to Reach Suicidal Subject in Trailer Park

This St. Joe’s Nurse is En Route to Puerto Rico, and You Can Help Her Help People

September 2017

Missing Kneeland Toddler Flown to Hospital After Father Dives to Bottom of Lake Shasta to Rescue Her From Drowning

Brief Scare in Ridgewood Heights: Streets Closed, Elementary School on Lockdown as Armed, Disturbed Man Makes Threats

70-Year-Old Woman and Her Dogs Found Alive and Well After Having Been Trapped in Crashed Car For Four Days

UPDATE: Small Plane Headed for ACV Crashes in Benicia, California With Two on Board

Need to Breathe Something Other Than Smoke? The County Has Six Clean-Air Centers Set Up in the Klamath-Trinity Region and on the Coast

Industrial Propane Tank Hitched to Old Town Food Truck Bursts Under Pressure of Today’s Sizzling Sun

August 2017

Public Health: People Who Had Contact With Child Struck by Meningitis Patient Have All Been Notified

Eureka Child Hospitalized With Serious, Contagious Form of Meningitis; People Who May Have Had Contact Are Being Notified

(VIDEO) Distressed Horsey in a Hole Pulled From Tree Stump Tomb by Team of Rescuers

AIR QUALITY ALERT: Officials Warn of ‘Very Unhealthy’ Air Quality Conditions Along the Klamath River as Wildfires Continue to Grow

(UPDATES) Fire at Manila Homeless Encampment on the Bay Burns Structure to the Ground; Police Respond to Report of Assault at Scene, Find No Suspects

Rio Dell Man Airlifted to Redding Following Backwoods Solo-Vehicle Crash

BEWARE: We All Got Suckered By the Cheap Eclipse Glasses on Amazon

(UPDATED) Eureka Police Respond to Bomb Scare in Old Town Apartment Building

(UPDATE) Fire Northwest of Garberville Closes Alderpoint Road; Evacuations Underway

July 2017

Bomb Squad and its Bomb-Bot Make Late Night Call to Midtown Eureka on Report of Weird Object in the Street

(UPDATED) A Team of Rescuers is Trying to Save a Humpback Whale That’s Been Tangled in Fishing Gear Since Last Week

Humboldt County Correctional Officer Rescues Inmate From Suicide Attempt During Routine Cell Check

Man Impeding Investigation Dies From Medical Emergency After Being Released From Handcuffs, HCSO Says

June 2017

Have You Seen Her? Sheriff Office Asks for Public’s Help in Locating Missing Trinidad Woman

Ammonia Tank Explodes as Fire Crews Excavate Debris at Scene of Eureka Waterfront Fire