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March 2017

(UPDATE: OPEN!) Caltrans Hopes to Have Highway 101 in Northern Mendocino Open This Afternoon

(UPDATE) Three Victims Confirmed Dead After Officers Recover Vehicle In Sunday’s Highway 96 Crash From Klamath River

CHP Names Victim in Today’s Fatal Downtown Eureka Hit and Run; Driver Arrested for Felony Vehicular Manslaughter

(UPDATED) Hit-and-Run Driver Strikes Vehicles, Kills Pedestrian on Eureka’s Fourth Street; Driver Tracked Down a Few Blocks Away

Caltrans Struggles to Keep the Failing Highway to Crescent City Open; Expect 10 to 20 Minute Delays

(UPDATE) Mother and Two Young Daughters Suspected Deceased After Vehicle Plunges into Klamath River; Father Able to Climb to Safety

Highway 299 to Be Open All Day EVERY Sunday Now; Daily Openings No Longer Restricted to Locals

(UPDATING) Snowy, Icy Roads are Causing Traffic Accidents All Around Humboldt This Morning

Expect Traffic Delays on Highway 96 South of Weitchpec Due to Emergency Slope Stabilization

Whoa! Highway 299 at Big French Creek Will be Open ALL DAY SUNDAY!

(PHOTO) Pickup Driver Makes L’il Unplanned Trip Through Eureka Home’s Yard

Three People Taken to Hospital After Their SUV Rolled Over in Midtown Eureka; Streets Closed at the Intersection of C and Fourteenth

Need to Take 299 to Redding? Here Are the Times of Day You Can Pass The Massive Slide at Big French Creek

February 2017

CHP: Pedestrian Killed in Yesterday’s Highway 101 Crash Ran Into Path of Oncoming Traffic

A Broken Water Main is Backing Up Traffic on Northbound 101 Near the Eureka Slough Bridge

Be Warned! It’s Totally Snowing on Highway 299 at Berry Summit

Humboldt’s Tuesday Afternoon Roads Report

Latest Highway 299 Limited Opening Schedule

Highway 299 Will Open for Local Traffic Later Today, Should Remain Open Until Early Tomorrow Morning

Highway 299 Will be Open for a Few Limited Hours This Weekend Caltrans Says

HSU Student Had Been Drinking Before Driving Through University Entrance Sign; No Field Sobriety Tests Were Issued, According to UPD Traffic Report

(UPDATE) Crescent City CHP Officer Injured in Big Rig Crash Near Humboldt-Del Norte Border

Motorcyclist and Bicyclist Both Taken to the Hospital After Colliding on Eureka’s West Side

(UPDATE) CHP Searching For Fortuna Man After Hit-and-Run Incident on Avenue of the Giants

Multi-Vehicle Rollover Crash Near WinCo

BIG RIG SPILL! We Don’t Know Why That Trucker Flipped it Into the Ditch Last Night, CHP Says, But Everyone Walked Away

(VIDEO) Landslide Makes Wilder Ridge Road Go Bye-Bye

Humboldt’s Tuesday Afternoon Roads Report

There’s a Big Hole in the Road on Eel River Drive in Loleta

62-Year-Old Pedestrian Suffers Moderate Injuries After Being Struck By Prius Driver in Fortuna; Police Looking For Witnesses

January 2017

80-Year-Old Woman Dies After Being Struck By Pickup Driver in Henderson Center

Garberville Man Arrested for DUI After Highway 101 Wreck; Semi-Truck Driver Taken to Hospital with ‘Major Injuries’

HUMBOLDT’S MONDAY MORNING ROADS UPDATE: Shively Road CLOSED; Centerville Road OPEN; Etc.

Highway 299 Has a New Boulder, Remains Closed

(UPDATE, MORE ROADS) After Last Night’s Rains, Many Humboldt Roads Closed on Inauguration Morning

(VIDEO) Tree Falls Down

19-Year-Old Alameda Woman Dies in Car Crash Between Laytonville and Willits

Fernbridge is Now Open! (PLUS: A Rundown of Other Wet Roads)

Flooding Closes Road to Ferndale; Caltrans Not Yet Sure When Hwy 211 Will Reopen

(UPDATING) A Running List of Humboldt Storm-Related Road Closures and Hazards

Pedestrian Suffers Life-Threatening Head Injury North of Eureka Slough Bridge on Highway 101

CALTRANS: Chains and/or 4WD Required at Berry Summit! Plus: More Chains-Required Roads

52-Year-Old Eureka Man Killed in New Year’s Day Vehicle Rollover; DUI Suspected, Says CHP

December 2016

CHP: One Arrested After Yesterday’s Head-On Collision North of Laytonville; Two People Airlifted

County Estimates That Last Week’s Storm Caused $2.89 Million in Damages to Local Roads, Seeks California Disaster Assistance Funding

Forget About That Trip to Fern Canyon, an ‘Unstable and Impassable’ Landslide is Blocking Vehicle Traffic on Davison Road

Highway 299 Won’t Open Again Until January

Slip Out Closes Salmon River Road Near the Humboldt-Siskiyou Border

LOLETA HAY-TASTROPHE: Cannibal Island Road Closed After Hay Truck Goes Haywire

Mudslide Closes Northbound 101 Near Fernbridge; Detours Available

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