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OBITUARY: John DeMatos, 1937-2025
LoCO Staff / Dec. 18, 2025, 6:56 a.m. / Obits
OBITUARY: Shirley Elizabeth Sutton-Wight, 1944-2025
LoCO Staff / Dec. 18, 2025, 6:56 a.m. / Obits
OBITUARY: Ellen Margarette Crump, 1929-2025
LoCO Staff / Dec. 18, 2025, 6:56 a.m. / Obits
Trump is About to Reclassify Cannabis, Easing Restrictions on Banking, Taxes and Research, According to Multiple News Outlets
Ryan Burns / Dec. 17, 2025, 1:30 p.m. / Cannabis
No More Gas in Orick! Shoreline Market to Close Jan. 1 as Yurok Tribe Firms Up Design Plans for Brand-New Fuel Mart
LoCO Staff / Dec. 17, 2025, 1:02 p.m. / Transportation , Tribes
… No More Gas in Orick! Shoreline Market to Close Jan. 1 as Yurok Tribe Firms Up Design Plans for Brand-New Fuel Mart RIP Shoreline Market. | Photo: Andrew GoffPREVIOUSLY: Yurok …
‘False Hope’: Why Families Who Celebrated California’s New Mental Health Court Feel Let Down by It
Jocelyn Wiener / Dec. 17, 2025, 7:17 a.m. / Sacramento
OBITUARY: Daniel Patrick Adams, 1991-2025
LoCO Staff / Dec. 17, 2025, 6:56 a.m. / Obits
OBITUARY: Melinda Elaine Petersen, 1958-2025
LoCO Staff / Dec. 17, 2025, 6:56 a.m. / Obits
Humboldt County Supervisors Adopt Long-Awaited Climate Action Plan, Set Greenhouse Gas Emissions Threshold
Ryan Burns / Dec. 16, 2025, 4:23 p.m. / Local Government
… emitted roughly 1.5 million metric tons of carbon dioxide in 2022, according to Planner Megan Acevedo, with road transportation sources accounting for 73 percent of that. The second-highest contributor …
Tonight’s Eureka City Council Meeting Has Been Canceled
LoCO Staff / Dec. 16, 2025, 3:46 p.m. / Local Government
… in the community to lend a helping hand throughout the holiday season. To learn more about the Rotary Club of Eureka or to make a donation, visit www.rotary1.org. …
Republicans Ask Federal Court to Overturn California’s New Prop. 50 Maps
CalMatters staff / Dec. 16, 2025, 2:36 p.m. / Sacramento
More Adults Return to College in California as Inflation and Job Fears Rise
Adam Echelman / Dec. 16, 2025, 7:32 a.m. / Sacramento
OBITUARY: Richard George Kinney, 1938-2025
LoCO Staff / Dec. 16, 2025, 6:56 a.m. / Obits
(UPDATE) Pending Eviction, the Kinetic Sculpture Lab is Struggling to Find a Way Forward
Dezmond Remington / Dec. 15, 2025, 7:31 p.m. / Community , Kinetic , Kinetic Sculpture Racing
… , their chassis, the mind-boggling amount of tools and supplies that take up almost all of the floor space and stacks to the soaring ceiling — must be gone by January 1, 2026. It’s taken years to fill. Even on its …
Meet Your Next Humboldt County Planning Commissioner: Former Sheriff’s Investigator Todd Fulton Set to Replace Thomas Mulder as Supervisor Bushnell’s Second District Appointee
Ryan Burns / Dec. 15, 2025, 3:46 p.m. / Local Government
A Campground in Manila is Just One Possibility After Friends of the Dunes Secures $430K Grant Land Trust
Isabella Vanderheiden / Dec. 15, 2025, 1:45 p.m. / Environment
Sheriff’s Deputies Allegedly Find Homemade Explosive Device, Drugs, Guns and Ammo After Searching a Jeep ‘Associated With’ a Passenger on Probation
LoCO Staff / Dec. 15, 2025, 12:53 p.m. / Crime
… Sheriff's Office: On Dec. 13, 2025, at 1: 02 a.m., a Humboldt County Sheriff’s deputy was patrolling the area of Broadway St. and Sunset St., in Eureka when he observed a white Jeep Cherokee parked …
Humboldt County Elections Office Sends Blue Lake Voters Slightly Belated Ballot Info on Upcoming Recall Election
Ryan Burns / Dec. 15, 2025, 12:09 p.m. / Elections
… , no longer feel you have our best interests at heart and demand that you vacate your positions either thru resignation or recall. The printed names of the proponents are as follows: 1. Elissa Rosado 2.Charis …
Eureka Police Vow to be On the Hunt for DUI Drivers This Holiday Season, and There’ll be a Checkpoint Somewhere in Town This Thursday
LoCO Staff / Dec. 15, 2025, 11:46 a.m. / Crime
… season can be dangerous for people on the roads. In December 2023 alone, 1,038 people were killed in the U.S. in alcohol-impaired-driving crashes, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety …
‘A New Era of Earthquake Detection’: Cal Poly Humboldt Participates in Project Using Fiber Optic Lines to Measure Seismic Activity
LoCO Staff / Dec. 15, 2025, 10:29 a.m. / Cal Poly Humboldt
… sensitive, it can detect earthquakes as small as magnitude 1 on the Richter scale.“This is a major leap in seismology research capability,” explains Eric Riggs, co-lead on the project and Dean of the College …
ORCA UPDATE: The Orcas Who Visited Humboldt Bay Over the Weekend Were a 27-Year-Old Female Fish Named ‘Lester’ and Her Kids
Hank Sims / Dec. 15, 2025, 8:45 a.m. / Nature
… Killer Whales — roaming orcas — from the T035A group, led by a 27-year-old matriarch named “Lester.” With Lester were her kids: 15-year-old Opal (T035A1), 12-year-old Topaz (T035A2), 7 …
Prison Health Workers Are Among the Best-Paid Public Employees. Why Are So Many Jobs Vacant?
Kristen Hwang / Dec. 15, 2025, 7 a.m. / Sacramento
… and staff turnover. “A high vacancy rate is a self-fulfilling prophecy,” said Dr. Stuart Bussey, president of the Union of American Physicians and Dentists, which represents about 1,300 state psychiatrists …
OBITUARY: Michael Avelar, 1983-2025
LoCO Staff / Dec. 15, 2025, 6:56 a.m. / Obits
OBITUARY: Glenn Edward Martella, 1942-2025
LoCO Staff / Dec. 15, 2025, 6:56 a.m. / Obits
(VIDEO) A Pod of Orcas Visited Humboldt Bay This Afternoon
LoCO Staff / Dec. 13, 2025, 8:54 p.m. / Nature
… into the Eureka Channel of Humboldt Bay this afternoon. We first encountered them about a 1/4 mile south of the Wharfinger building/Marina Way and last saw them before they dove and disappeared as they headed …
THE ECONEWS REPORT: Local Governments to Finally Take Action on Climate Change?
The EcoNews Report / Dec. 13, 2025, 10 a.m. / Environment
HUMBOLDT HISTORY: A Desperate Trek to Iaqua During the Worst Snowstorm Anyone Had Ever Seen
Ralph W. Dearing / Dec. 13, 2025, 7:30 a.m. / History
OBITUARY: Chris Frolking, 1949-2025
LoCO Staff / Dec. 13, 2025, 6:56 a.m. / Obits
OBITUARY: Dillon Nadine Lewis, 1960-2025
LoCO Staff / Dec. 13, 2025, 6:56 a.m. / Obits