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Motorcyclist Uses Hammond Trail Bridge to Escape Pursuit Early This Morning; Deputies Eventually Make Arrest at The Heights Casino
LoCO Staff / Aug. 28, 2025, 10:23 a.m. / Crime
DILLON FIRE UPDATE: Highway 96 Still Open to Controlled Traffic as Fire Tops 2,000 3,100 Acres; Management Team En Route to Assume Command
LoCO Staff / Aug. 28, 2025, 10:19 a.m. / Fire
… : California Complex Incident Management Team 1 (CA-CIMT 1) will assume command of the Dillon Fire at 7:30 a.m. on Friday, August 29. Incident Command Post (ICP) will be established at 7:00 a.m. in Happy Camp, CA …
Arcata Mailman Hanging Up His Bag After 41 Years on the Job
LoCO Staff / Aug. 28, 2025, 7:53 a.m. / Labor
OBITUARY: Noman Kent Perkins, 1942-2025
LoCO Staff / Aug. 28, 2025, 6:56 a.m. / Obits
California Fish and Game Commission Revokes Fortuna Man’s Commercial Fishing License for Crab Trap Violations
LoCO Staff / Aug. 27, 2025, 12:50 p.m. / Government
Eureka City Council Approves Letter Urging CalPERS to Divest From Companies Invested in the ‘Genocide of Palestinian People’
Isabella Vanderheiden / Aug. 27, 2025, 12:01 p.m. / Local Government
Who Dumped a Bunch of Trash From a Roofing Project in Jed Smith Park?
LoCO Staff / Aug. 27, 2025, 10:48 a.m. / Crime
Sheriff’s Office Arrests Two in Connection With Early Morning Burglary on Harrison Avenue
LoCO Staff / Aug. 27, 2025, 10:20 a.m. / Crime
… and video surveillance footage both Bessant and Kenyon were placed under arrest. Bessant was arrested on the following charges:P.C. 460(B) Second degree burglaryP.C. 182(A)(1) Conspiracy to commit …
Arcata is Making More Sales Tax Money than Ever Before
Dezmond Remington / Aug. 27, 2025, 9:58 a.m. / Government
… $100,000 more than the year before that, boosted at least a tad by the 0.75% increase to the tax that voters approved last year that went into effect on April 1, and a massive $700,000 more than the 2018 …
EPD Releases More Info About the Man Who Allegedly Torched His Own Car on the Courthouse Lawn
LoCO Staff / Aug. 27, 2025, 9:49 a.m. / Crime
A Mini Cascadia Quake? What the 6.5-Magnitude Earthquake of 1954 Reveals About the ‘Big One’
Isabella Vanderheiden / Aug. 27, 2025, 7:36 a.m. / Earthquake , Science
OBITUARY: Robert ‘Mickey’ Dale Huber, 1940-2025
LoCO Staff / Aug. 27, 2025, 6:56 a.m. / Obits
… Michael Bennett (2008); and his granddaughter Jessica Clark-Cameron (2005). A casual potluck in Mickey’s honor will be held on Sunday, August 31, 2025, at 1 p.m. at the family home, 1474 Terrace Way, Eureka …
OBITUARY: Barbara Schuler Hight, 1937-2025
LoCO Staff / Aug. 27, 2025, 6:56 a.m. / Obits
DILLON FIRE UPDATE: Evacuation Orders in Siskiyou County; Highway 96 Could Close, Forest Managers Warn
LoCO Staff / Aug. 26, 2025, 4:19 p.m. / Fire
… DILLON FIRE UPDATE: Evacuation Orders in Siskiyou County; Highway 96 Could Close, Forest Managers Warn Press release on the Dillon Fire, from Six Rivers National Forest:Estimated size: 1,233 acres …
We’ll Have to Wait Until October to Finish the Prelim Hearing for Man Charged With Threatening Schools, Businesses
Ryan Burns / Aug. 26, 2025, 3:04 p.m. / Courts
… .When everyone filed back into the courtroom shortly after 1:30 p.m., O'Connell revealed that Rees had just this morning turned over 23 previously undisclosed supplemental reports from the Arcata Police …
The Local Pacific Fisher Population Has Again Been Denied Endangered Species Act Protection
LoCO Staff / Aug. 26, 2025, 2:04 p.m. / Wildlife
New Fire Near Somes Bar Balloons Up to 1,000 Acres Overnight
LoCO Staff / Aug. 26, 2025, 12:31 p.m. / Fire
… New Fire Near Somes Bar Balloons Up to 1,000 Acres Overnight Press release from Six Rivers National Forest: This morning firefighters on the Six Rivers National Forest are continuing response …
Board of Supervisors Loosens the Purse Strings on ‘Project Trellis’ — a Cannabis Industry Support Program — Just a Little Bit
Hank Sims / Aug. 26, 2025, 12:11 p.m. / Local Government
(UPDATE: FOUND) Sheriff’s Office Looking For Walnut Creek Woman After She Failed to Return From Hike Near Whitethorn Last Night
LoCO Staff / Aug. 26, 2025, 9:55 a.m. / Crime
LET’S REVIEW: Last Weekend’s DUI Checkpoint in Eureka, By the Numbers
LoCO Staff / Aug. 26, 2025, 7:40 a.m. / Crime
… arrested for DUI.• 5 Citations were issued for CVC 12500 or 14601 violations.• 2 Vehicles were towed.• 1 Vehicle fled from the checkpoint, but an Officer was able to identify the suspect …
California GOP Takes Newsom to Court Over Redistricting, Again. Will Trump Sue Next?
Maya C. Miller and Alexei Koseff / Aug. 26, 2025, 7:14 a.m. / Sacramento
OBITUARY: Kendra Leighanne Beni Yao Moore, 1999-2025
LoCO Staff / Aug. 26, 2025, 6:56 a.m. / Obits
OBITUARY: Patrick T. Ayers, 1963-2025
LoCO Staff / Aug. 26, 2025, 6:56 a.m. / Obits
… the Mattole River with the Liu brothers. Pat had a love of exploration that he was able to do during those summers at the cabin. In 2016, Pat was diagnosed with Myotonic Dystrophy Type 1, experiencing moderate …
Officers Recount Threatening Phone Calls to Schools During Preliminary Hearing in Trial of Daryl Jones
Ryan Burns / Aug. 25, 2025, 5:41 p.m. / Courts
Open Door Nabs Grant to Boost Dental Services at its Burre Center Location
LoCO Staff / Aug. 25, 2025, 3 p.m. / News
… for Humboldt County.Each year Burre Dental Center in Eureka sees over 7,000 of Open Door’s 12,158 dental patients; about 1,500 of these are emergency dental visits for adults who do not have an established …
Three Bills Would Protect California Workers From AI Management, but Will Costs Stand in the Way?
Khari Johnson / Aug. 25, 2025, 7:22 a.m. / Sacramento
… by the California Federation of Labor Unions, AFL-CIO, this year that attempt to regulate automated systems in the workplace. The federation represents more than two million workers statewide and made more than $2.1 …
(VIDEO) 69-Year-Old Man Drives His Vehicle Onto the County Courthouse Lawn and Sets It On Fire
LoCO Staff / Aug. 24, 2025, 12:25 p.m. / News
Multi-Agency Vehicle and Foot Chase Ends Thanks to a Spike Strip and K-9 Officer
LoCO Staff / Aug. 24, 2025, 11:36 a.m. / Crime
… Multi-Agency Vehicle and Foot Chase Ends Thanks to a Spike Strip and K-9 Officer Press release from the Eureka Police Department: On August 23, 2025, at approximately 1:18 p.m., an officer …
Artificial Intelligence Has Arrived in Humboldt Commercials, and People Have Opinions
Ryan Burns / Aug. 24, 2025, 7 a.m. / Business , Technology
… industry report found that, among marketers who spent more than $1 million on digital video ads last year, nearly 90 percent are using or plan to use generative AI in their video ads.Some of those companies …
THE ECONEWS REPORT: Talking CEQA Reforms
The EcoNews Report / Aug. 23, 2025, 10 a.m. / Environment