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Sheriff’s Office Arrests Man in Connection With Large-Scale Cannabis Farm Burglary in Eastern Humboldt
LoCO Staff / Feb. 7, 2024, 10:18 a.m. / Crime
… in excess of $10,000.00, (PC 496d), being a felon in possession of a firearm (PC 29800(a)(1), Felon in possession of ammunition (PC 30305(a)(1), and for an outstanding felony warrant in Humboldt County. Mc …
‘Peaceful Resolution’ to Incident That Saw Man Barricade Himself For Hours in Arcata Home
LoCO Staff / Feb. 6, 2024, 4:39 p.m. / Crime
… surrendered to APD officers inside the home.38-year-old San Jose resident Blair Anderson Wortham was booked and lodged at the Humboldt County Correctional Facility on the following felony charges:PC 459 …
Suspected Burglar’s Getaway Rig Gets Stuck in McKinleyville Mud Prior to Arrest, Says HCSO
LoCO Staff / Feb. 6, 2024, 2:35 p.m. / Crime
… Suspected Burglar's Getaway Rig Gets Stuck in McKinleyville Mud Prior to Arrest, Says HCSO Press release from the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office: On 2/6/2024, at about 1:59 am, Humboldt …
Humboldt County Correctional Facility Releases 2023 Statistics
LoCO Staff / Feb. 2, 2024, 11:23 a.m. / Crime
… Distribution Center, Eureka Woodlot, County Motor Pool, Botanical Gardens, and McKinleyville Community District)2023 Statistics for the Humboldt County Correctional Facility:Total Number of People Booked: 6189 …
Local Felon Arrested With More Than Half a Pound of Fentanyl, Plus Other Drugs and Firearms, Drug Task Force Says
LoCO Staff / Feb. 2, 2024, 9:52 a.m. / Crime
… Task Force: TooheyOn February 1st, 2024, Humboldt County Drug Task Force (HCDTF) with assistance from the Fortuna Police Department and the Rio Dell Police Department, served a search warrant on Thomas …
Californians Bought Record Numbers of Electric Cars as Industry Eyes Slowdown
Alejandro Lazo / Feb. 2, 2024, 8:04 a.m. / Sacramento
… . “Transportation electrification is rapidly unfolding,” David Hochschild, chair of the California Energy Commission said in a recorded video announcement. Nationally an estimated 1.2 million electric vehicles …
OBITUARY: Barbara Jean Kanen, 1948-2024
LoCO Staff / Jan. 27, 2024, 6:56 a.m. / Obits
… , 2024. I know obituaries are usually short and to the point, but there is no way to quickly sum up this amazing woman's 75+ years of life. She deserves to have books written about her …
Impressive Arsenal Discovered During Rio Dell Raid Yesterday, Drug Task Force Says; Father, Son Arrested
LoCO Staff / Jan. 25, 2024, 2:26 p.m. / Crime
… Facility where he was booked on the following charges:HS11370.1(A)- Possession of a Controlled Substance while ArmedHS11351- Possession of Controlled Substance for Sales PC30605- Possession …
Iraqi Man Arrested on Dazzling Array of Charges, Including Human Trafficking, Following Table Bluff Road Grow Op Raid
LoCO Staff / Jan. 22, 2024, 2:45 p.m. / Crime
… was arrested and booked without bail at the Humboldt County Correctional Facility on the following charges:PC186.2- Criminal ProfiteeringPC186.10- Money LaunderingPC487A- Grand TheftPC182- ConspiracyPC236.1 …
Woman Arrested for Assault With a Deadly Weapon After Dispute Over a Vehicle, Sheriff’s Office Says
LoCO Staff / Jan. 19, 2024, 3:32 p.m. / Crime
… Woman Arrested for Assault With a Deadly Weapon After Dispute Over a Vehicle, Sheriff's Office Says Press release from the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office: On 1/18/2024, at about 6:31 pm …
OBITUARY: Patsy Ruth Walker, 1929-2023
LoCO Staff / Jan. 13, 2024, 6:56 a.m. / Obits
… over dresses, when given the choice. Patsy was very independent, and a breast cancer survivor. She crafted beautiful quilts, tended to her garden and read books from the local library. The table beside …
Film Set to Shoot in Eureka is From Renowned Director Paul Thomas Anderson, With Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn and Regina Hall, According to Industry Reports
Ryan Burns / Jan. 10, 2024, 12:24 p.m. / MOVIED!
… , a 1990 postmodern novel set in a fictional version of Humboldt County by author Thomas Pynchon, whose book Inherent Vice was adapted to film by Anderson in 2014. However, recent reporting casts …
McKinleyville Man Arrested in Possession of Fentanyl and an Explosive Device, Sheriff’s Office Says
LoCO Staff / Jan. 9, 2024, 9 a.m. / Crime
… McKinleyville Man Arrested in Possession of Fentanyl and an Explosive Device, Sheriff's Office Says Press release from the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office: GoodwinOn 1/4/2024, at about 12 …
OBITUARY: Lyle Dean Rosser, 1942-2023
LoCO Staff / Jan. 8, 2024, 7:29 a.m. / Obits
… loved reading books and singing to the little ones. He was known as “the baby whisperer.” Lyle enjoyed watching his kids and grandkids play sports. Many trips were made to Redding to watch …
GROWING OLD UNGRACEFULLY: Kindness
Barry Evans / Jan. 7, 2024, 7 a.m. / Growing Old Ungracefully
… was sure it meant something — or why would I have been so blown away with the original incident? Later, in my reading, I stumbled on a couple of stories that reminded me. In Joan Tollifson's gutsy book …
HUMBOLDT HISTORY: Remembering Sarah. Or, the Life and Times of Humboldt’s First Female Lighthouse Keeper
Peggy Wheeler / Jan. 6, 2024, 7:30 a.m. / History
… Zealand was just such a book. Thank you, Charles Bateson! Not only did this book have great details of the period, it also included an appendix of charts detailing departure and arrival dates, facts about …
Brian Stephens, Eureka’s New Police Chief, Comes From the Department’s Bad Boy Days But Says He’s Committed to Continuing Progressive Reforms
Ryan Burns / Jan. 5, 2024, 4:57 p.m. / Local Government
… enforcement was “just hook and book, and if they’re resisting, overwhelm them with force,” as one current EPD officer described that era. Former chief Garr Nielsen characterized the department …
Theo Lengyel, Founding Member of Eureka’s Mr. Bungle, Arrested in Connection With Girlfriend’s Murder
Ryan Burns / Jan. 2, 2024, 3:56 p.m. / Crime
… in Berkeley, according to the CPD press release below. Positive identification is pending DNA analysis.We've contacted the Santa Cruz Sheriff's Office to request a booking photo and will update …
OBITUARY: Jerry Nusbaum, 1941-2023
LoCO Staff / Dec. 30, 2023, 6:56 a.m. / Obits
… . The Farallons are a special place, sitting as they do on the Continental shelf, and Jerry quickly picked up the way of the work there and gradually took on more responsibility. At one point he’d spent nearly 1 …
Hoopa Author Judith Surber, Who Wrote a New York Times Story on Opioid Addiction in the Valley This Year, Was ‘Ecstatic’ to Discover That She Has Been Honored by the Pulitzer Center
Isabella Vanderheiden / Dec. 28, 2023, 3:36 p.m. /
… ] was picked as one of the top stories of 2023 that their staff picks every year. … I was ecstatic.”Surber has written about opioid addiction in the Hoopa Valley for a number of years. Her first book …
The Top 25 Stories of 2023! It Was the Best of Years and it Was the Worst of Years, but Overall It Was a Pretty Normal Year
Hank Sims / Dec. 27, 2023, 1:50 p.m. / Housekeeping
… over $400,000 of the Fair Board's funds using the names of fake employees on the books.Tafarella was later indicted following an FBI investigation.11. Smith River Complex Sparks More Evacuations …
GROWING OLD UNGRACEFULLY: Don Quixote’s Impossible Dream
Barry Evans / Dec. 24, 2023, 7 a.m. / Growing Old Ungracefully
… could lead to madness. Too much reading of romances! Gustave Doré’s engraving, captioned, “A world of disorderly notions, picked out of his books, crowded into his imagination …
HUMBOLDT HISTORY: How Did Humboldt Celebrate Christmas in the 19th Century?
Catherine Mace / Dec. 23, 2023, 7:30 a.m. / History
… the next best quarters on the fort — a story-and-a-half house, two rooms below and two above, with a kitchen at the side. Harriett found prices high in Humboldt County. Eggs were $1.25 a dozen, butter 75 …
Mental Health Programs That Served Hundreds of Kids — Including in Humboldt — to Close After California Payment Changes
Jocelyn Wiener / Dec. 21, 2023, 7:45 a.m. / Sacramento
… catastrophic consequences.” But until recently, programs have not actually closed. That’s beginning to change. “It’s the end of the year. Folks are looking at the books saying ‘we’re not going to make it …
California Is Raising the Minimum Wage for 2 Industries. Others Could See Pay Hikes, Too
Levi Sumagaysay and Shreya Agrawal / Dec. 21, 2023, 7:40 a.m. / Sacramento
… that will be effective Jan. 1. In June, health care workers will earn a minimum of $18, $21 or $23 an hour, depending on what type of facility employs them and where they work. The industry-specific wage increases …
GROWING OLD UNGRACEFULLY: God’s Reset
Barry Evans / Dec. 17, 2023, 7 a.m. / Growing Old Ungracefully
… University###In a book of weird tales — and the Bible is nothing if not a veritable cornucopia of very weird tales — the weirdest of all is the story of Noah’s ark. Forget that sexless birth thing, or Satan …
Dolly Parton Has Teamed Up With the Bridgeville Community Center to Bring Free Books to a Thousand Local Toddlers
LoCO Staff / Dec. 12, 2023, 4:59 p.m. / :)
… comes to $1.10 a book delivered to their home. Our goal is to enroll every eligible child who wishes to get Imagination Library books. And your donations will help make this dream possible.This program …
HUMBOLDT GRINCH PINCHED? EPD Makes Arrest in Connection With Toys For Tots Caper
Andrew Goff / Dec. 12, 2023, 10:19 a.m. / Crime
… , was located and arrested at the Greenwood Heights location. Haselip was booked at the Humboldt County Correctional Facility for possession of an illegal firearm, felon in possession of a firearm, possession …
OBITUARY: Barbara Deanna Wayland, 1954-2023
LoCO Staff / Dec. 12, 2023, 6:56 a.m. / Obits
… child she had at least two or three books going at once. If she wasn’t reading for relaxation, she listened to music, often with at least one cat in her lap. A good book, a good song, and a warm kitty …
GROWING OLD UNGRACEFULLY: Memories: Imaginative Reconstructions
Barry Evans / Dec. 10, 2023, 7 a.m. / Growing Old Ungracefully
… is the negative review we received on booking.com (our only one!) when we left dishes in the sink after leaving in a hurry to catch a train. Even though the review was written in German, Gott sei Dank, I’m still …