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Stranded 15-Year-Old Rescued From Arcata Marsh on Tuesday Night
LoCO Staff / Jan. 10, 2024, 9:38 a.m. / Emergency
Cal State Faculty Union Vows to Strike Over the University’s Final Pay Offer
Mikhail Zinshteyn / Jan. 10, 2024, 8:20 a.m. / Sacramento
… to join the faculty union on the picket lines is the smaller Teamsters 2010, a labor group of 1,100 skilled maintenance workers. The whiplash in messaging — raises on one hand but a vow to strike …
OBITUARY: Jack Clifford Hurst, 1928-2023
LoCO Staff / Jan. 10, 2024, 6:56 a.m. / Obits
TODAY in SUPES: Who Wants to Operate a Safe Parking Program for the Homeless? Also, What To Do About Whippit Abuse?
Ryan Burns / Jan. 9, 2024, 3:55 p.m. / Local Government
… Plan of California.On January 1, the nonprofit organization expanded to an additional 10 counties, from 14 to 24, which required the county to amend some sections of its government code. It also means that Humboldt …
Supreme Court Case About Impact Fees Could Have Huge Consequences for Housing in California
Ben Christopher / Jan. 9, 2024, 3:20 p.m. / Sacramento
NO PIZZA, NO PIZZA: Fortuna Community Rocked As Little Caesar’s Fails to Open on the Tuesday We Were Promised
Stephanie McGeary / Jan. 9, 2024, 2:53 p.m. / Food , Our Culture
Aspiring Offshore Wind Developer Announces New Name for Humboldt Project, Along With New Local Staff and a Downtown Eureka Office
LoCO Staff / Jan. 9, 2024, 11:41 a.m. / Business
… auction where the company secured the right to develop an up to 1.6 GW project 28 miles off the coast of Humboldt County, the announcement marks another key step for one of the first commercial …
Falk, the Abandoned Lumber Town in Headwaters Forest, Officially Listed on the National Register of Historic Places
LoCO Staff / Jan. 9, 2024, 10:32 a.m. / History
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: John Chester Burman, 1946-2023
LoCO Staff / Jan. 9, 2024, 7:45 a.m. / Obits
Sheriff’s Office Identifies Human Remains Found 55 Years Ago as Belonging to War Veteran With a Troubled Past
LoCO Staff / Jan. 8, 2024, 3:51 p.m. / News
… Sheriff's Office Identifies Human Remains Found 55 Years Ago as Belonging to War Veteran With a Troubled Past Press release from the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office: On May 1st, 1968 …
SNOW ALERT! Interior Humboldt May See Up to 12 Inches of Snowfall This Week; More Rain and Hail On the Coast
Stephanie McGeary / Jan. 8, 2024, 2:16 p.m. / How ‘Bout That Weather
Two Dogs Rescued from House Fire in McKinleyville; Pair of Cats Unaccounted For
LoCO Staff / Jan. 8, 2024, 10:03 a.m. / Fire
As California Evictions Boom, Whether Tenants Get Lawyers Depends on Where They Live
Felicia Mello / Jan. 8, 2024, 7:47 a.m. / Sacramento
… on $1,000 a month in disability benefits, was crestfallen. “I can’t afford anything like that.” While she admitted she’d fallen behind on rent, sometimes making partial payments, she pointed …
OBITUARY: Betty Louise Layman, 1929-2023
LoCO Staff / Jan. 8, 2024, 7:41 a.m. / Obits
OBITUARY: Lyle Dean Rosser, 1942-2023
LoCO Staff / Jan. 8, 2024, 7:29 a.m. / Obits
OBITUARY: Larry Charles Nichols, 1944-2024
LoCO Staff / Jan. 8, 2024, 7:25 a.m. / Obits
OBITUARY: Larry Wesley Hurd, 1941-2023
LoCO Staff / Jan. 8, 2024, 7:16 a.m. / Obits
Sheriff’s Office Seeking Suspects, Presumably Young Punks, Who Tagged Up a Business on McK’s Central Ave. to the Tune of Tens of Thousands of Dollars
LoCO Staff / Jan. 7, 2024, 4:43 p.m. / Crime
… Sheriff's Office: On 1/6/2024, at about 10:00 am, Humboldt County Sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to the 1700 Block of Central Avenue, McKinleyville for the report of an extensive vandalism that had …
GROWING OLD UNGRACEFULLY: Kindness
Barry Evans / Jan. 7, 2024, 7 a.m. / Growing Old Ungracefully
Human Remains Discovered Near Manila Dunes Friday; Sheriff’s Office Investigating
LoCO Staff / Jan. 6, 2024, noon / Crime
… Human Remains Discovered Near Manila Dunes Friday; Sheriff’s Office Investigating Press release from the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office:On 1/5/2024, at about 4:52 PM, the Humboldt County …
WEATHER ALERT: Up to Seven Inches of Snow Forecast for Humboldt Interior, Big Waves Predicted Along the Coast
Isabella Vanderheiden / Jan. 6, 2024, 11:41 a.m. / How ‘Bout That Weather
THE ECONEWS REPORT: Our New Years’ Poetry Show
The EcoNews Report / Jan. 6, 2024, 10 a.m. / Environment
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
… the entire voyage! One stands in awe at the strength and endurance of such pioneer women. Despite the fact that Sarah was shown on the 1852 Benicia California Census of October 1 as living with William …
OBITUARY: Albert Allie Markussen lll, 1966-2023
LoCO Staff / Jan. 6, 2024, 6:56 a.m. / Obits
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
… offering new officers a $50,000 signing bonus, it can still be hard to hire and keep sworn officers. On Jan. 1 the department re-initiated its “emergency staffing matrix,” last seen almost two …
Assm. Jim Wood Introduces Bill to Make Dungeness Crab the Official State Crustacean
Hank Sims / Jan. 5, 2024, 1:37 p.m. / Sacramento
Friendlier Prison Guards? Why Gavin Newsom’s Advisers Want Them at San Quentin
Nigel Duara / Jan. 5, 2024, 9:19 a.m. / Sacramento
… more than $1.6 billion in 2021. But it also has an award-winning prison newspaper, the inmate-hosted podcast Ear Hustle and a program in which inmates can earn an associate’s degree in general studies …
OBITUARY: Denise Joan Anaya, 1953-2023
LoCO Staff / Jan. 5, 2024, 6:56 a.m. / Obits
OBITUARY: Richard Christopher Quigley, 1957-2023
LoCO Staff / Jan. 5, 2024, 6:56 a.m. / Obits
