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In Response to Spiking COVID Cases, State Joins CDC in Urging People to Resume Masking in Public Indoor Settings
Photo by Mika Baumeister via Unsplash.###Humboldt County has seen 165 new cases of COVID-19 confirmed over the past week, easily landing us in the "high-transmission" category alongside much of…
‘Is Something Around the Corner?’ Small Businesses Reopen to Find New Challenges
Hotel owner Patty Baird, left, speaks with server Krisann Smith while checking the kitchen at Cedar House Sport Hotel in Truckee on July 23, 2021. Baird works long days, frequently including double…
Newsom Recall: GOP Challengers See Parents as ‘Consumers’
Republican recall candidate support directing education funding directly to families and giving them the choice of where to spend it through enrollment. Photo by Anne Wernikoff, CalMatters###When the COVID-19 pandemic…
OBITUARY: James V. Carter, 1944-2021
…In the early 80s he went to work for Young’s Market Company until he retired in 2007. Through the years he went on many golf trips with “The Dirty Dozen” – Hennessey…
OBITUARY: Kelly Eugene Berry, 1962-2021
…In the off-season dad worked for Turf King in Chico.In March 1989, dad and mom were again blessed with their first and only son, Robert Earl Berry the second. Dad…
Who Will Be the Next Arcata City Councilmember? Better Know the Seven Applicants Who Will be Grilled During Wednesday’s Public Forum
The Arcata City Council will soon appoint a new member to fill out the remainder of previous councilmember Sofia Pereira’s term, which ends in December 2022. On Wednesday night, the seven…
Humboldt Correctional Deputy Seriously Injured by Combative Inmate Wielding Sharpened Pencil, Says HCSO
…While refusing to comply with deputy requests, the inmate, 29-year-old Keith Tamas Vroman-Nagy, produced a sharpened pencil hidden on his person and attacked the deputies. During the assault, one…
Fifty-Seven-Year-Old Man is Humboldt’s Latest Drowning Victim After Getting Swept Under by the Current in the Eel Near Holmes Flat
…emergency crews utilizing a Cal-Fire helicopter located the missing male in the river. Rescue swimmers brought the man to shore and initiated life saving efforts. Despite extensive efforts, the man was…
OBITUARY: Dianna Hope Melton, 1949-2021
Dianna Hope Melton passed away on Wednesday, June 2, 2021 at the age of 72. She was born in Magee, Mississippi on January 5, 1949 to Joseph B. Martin and Ethel Mae…
Rancher Ray Christie’s Attorney Asks For Yet Another New Trial On Top of His Client’s Already Impending Retrial
Christie, at left, and a dead cow at his ranch in the Arcata Bottoms. Photos: Andrew Goff.The lawyer for Arcata rancher Ray Christie, who is scheduled for retrial next month on…
MISSING: Sheriff’s Office Seeking Northern Humboldt Man Who Disappeared After Borrowing Friend’s Car
Press release from the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office: The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office needs the public’s help to locate missing person Walter Wayne Wright, 35, of Westhaven. Wright was…
California Orders Vaccine or Testing for Health Care Workers, State Employees
…2, according to state officials.Short of a vaccination mandate, the new policy comes as the Delta variant has become the dominant strain in California — approximately 80% of the COVID-19 cases…
Woman Drowns in Trinity River After Getting Swept Under by the Current at Kimtu Beach
A 22-year-old woman died Friday evening after getting swept underwater by the currents of the Trinity River at Kimtu Beach.Humboldt County Sheriff's deputies were dispatched to the beach…
Child Dies Following Reported Medical Emergency at the Carson Mansion Pool
The Ingomar Club pool. | Google.A 9-year-old boy has died after reportedly suffering from an unspecified medical emergency in the Ingomar Club pool within the grounds of the Carson Mansion…
MONDAYS WITH MICHAELE: Relay For Life is Back!
…some friends who remind her that it's almost again time for Relay For Life. The main event takes place Aug. 7 at McKinleyville High School starting at 6 p.m.Time…
Fired: California Bill Aims to Decertify Police for Serious Misconduct
…The original bill gave the advisory board the power to direct the commission to investigate certain officers. The new version, however, simply says the board can recommend investigations. It also drops a…
Why Are Key California Affordable Housing Bills Bottled Up?
…The labor requirement was added to the bill at the last minute, in the Senate. Assemblymember Kevin McCarty, a Sacramento Democrat and the bill’s author, attributed the timing of the amendment…
OBITUARY: Joseph ‘Les’ Miranda, 1934-2021
With sadness, we regretfully announce the death of our dad, Joseph “Les” Miranda of Rio Dell. He passed away peacefully with his family at his bedside on July 17, 2021 at the…
OBITUARY: Barbara Jean Slade, 1931-2021
On July 19, 2021, Barbara Jean Slade passed away peacefully at the age of 89. Barbara was born on September 11, 1931, to Harriet and Gilbert Shirley in Eureka. When she was…
(AUDIO) HUMBOLDT HOLDING UP: A River May Soon Not Run Through It? Kayak and Fishing Guide Eric Stockwell On the Health of Humboldt’s Waterways
(AUDIO) HUMBOLDT HOLDING UP: A River May Soon Not Run Through It? Kayak and Fishing Guide Eric Stockwell On the Health of Humboldt's Waterways
Homegrown Humboldt Fighter Orion Cosce to Compete in His First Official UFC Bout This Week
Orion Cosce | Photos provided by Orion Cosce.Orion Cosce, the undefeated MMA pro born and raised in Humboldt County, will compete in his first official UFC bout this week.Cosce is heavily…
GROWING OLD UNGRACEFULLY: July Trivia
Covid vaccines have saved nearly 300,000 lives in the United States, according to the Yale School of Public Health. General Mills once employed 45 people to keep their fabricated “Betty Crocker…
OBITUARY: Marlene Patenaude Hover, 1933-2021
Marlene was born Sept 24, 1933 at the old Trinity Hospital in Arcata to Bethyl and Arthur Patenaude. She passed on March 11, 2021 at St. Joseph's Hospital in Eureka. Marlene…
See Smoke in Your Air? It’s Moving in From the East
Screenshot of Area Smoke Forecast (including smoke aloft) from the NWS websiteYou may have noticed that the air is looking a bit hazy in Humboldt today. Wildfire smoke — primarily from the Dixie…
Boil-Water Advisory Issued for Klamath Community Services District Due to Violation of California Safe Drinking Water Act, Yurok Tribe Says
The KCSD's damaged water tank in Klamath | Photo courtesy of the Yurok TribePress release from the Yurok Tribe: [Yesterday], the California State Water Resources Control Board required the Klamath Community Services…
ECONEWS REPORT: Charting a Course for Offshore Wind
…But the technology offers risks to the environment and the severity of these risks is hard to gauge because the technology has not been deployed in our ocean environments before. The Bureau…
OBITUARY: Ramon Torres Delgado, 1941-2021
…At 18 he joined the military in Mexico, and in 1963 he came to the U.S. with the dream of providing for his family in Mexico. He started work at Hammond…
OBITUARY: Charles L. Bean Jr., 1956-2021
…Over the years he would marry three more times before marrying the love of his life in August 2018. Charlie lived in Colorado for a time while working for the U.S…
(PHOTOS) Nordic Aquafarms Execs Lead Tour of the Corroding Remains of the Pulp Mill Property Where They Plan to Build a Big Land-Based Fish Farm
The former pulp mill property on the Samoa Peninsula includes towering infrastructure such as the 270-foot-tall boiler building and adjacent smokestack, all of which is slated for demolition to make…
MASKS BACK UP: Humboldt Public Health Joins 25 Other Counties to Recommend Masking Indoors, Regardless of Vaccination Status
Photo by Mika Baumeister on Unsplash.###From the Humboldt County Public Health Division:Humboldt County joins 25 other California counties in recommending that everyone, regardless of vaccination status, wear a mask indoors…