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(UPDATE: NOT YET) Busting Pot Farms From Space: Supervisors (MAY) Approve Contract With Company Offering High-Res Satellite Imagery to Assist With Code Enforcement
UPDATE, 20 minutes later:Oopsie! Clerk of the Board Kathy Hayes originally confirmed to us that the item discussed below had, in fact, been passed on the board's consent calendar as…
Two Arrested Near Trinidad on Weapons Charges After Routine Traffic Stop
…While conducting a traffic stop, the deputy learned that the passenger of the vehicle was on probation with a search clause.During a search of the vehicle, deputies located two loaded pistols…
Hundreds of Kids and Adults Receiving Free Eye Exams and Glasses in Hoopa This Week
Kids in Hoopa wear protective shades after receiving eye exams. | All photos courtesy Angie Brown.A team of ophthalmologists, lens-grinders and volunteers from around the world has set up shop on…
Numerous Agencies are Searching the Eel River by Land, Water and Sky for Signs of Car Possibly Linked to Missing Thottapilly Family
A helicopter patrols the Eel River this morning. Photo by Talia Rose.PREVIOUSLY: Vehicle Submerged in Eel River Similar to Missing SoCal Family’s, Says CHP; Search Continues###California Highway Patrol press…
D.C. UPDATE: Rep. Jared Huffman Says That Trump Appears ‘Very Close’ to Firing Robert Mueller, Predicts Constitutional Crisis
…Update," the show in which Rep. Jared Huffman — Humboldt's Congressman — submits to a medium-rare grilling from Larry Trask of our sister radio station KLGE, "The Lounge." (94.1 on your…
Kitchen Trial Should Go Forward as Planned Starting May 29, Defense Attorney Tells Judge This Morning
…It’s alleged Kitchen was driving drunk and fled the scene after her Jeep struck the girls.She was arrested two months later, after the California Highway Patrol completed its investigation. Kitchen…
Fateful Hearing on Klamath River Water Releases in San Francisco Today; Tribal Members, Upstream Farmers Caravaning to Federal Courthouse
Mouth of the Klamath. Photo: California Coastal Records Project###PREVIOUSLY:Hoopa Valley Tribe, Allies Win Big Legal Fight For Salmon-Saving Klamath River Flows###The decades-long legal battle over Klamath River…
SURVEY TIME! The North Coast Stormwater Coalition Wants YOU to Help It Help You Clean Up Our Waterways
Graphic from the North Coast Stormwater Coalition's Facebook page.The North Coast Stormwater Coalition — a consortium of city and county governments around the region dedicated to reducing pollution in our waterways…
Dressed to Impress, Elderly Fortuna Woman Accused of Slinging Meth Enters Not Guilty Plea
…Not only that, Hasler said, Engels has a history “going back to the ‘80s” of possessing and selling methamphetamine.Engels' case was called at the very end of the calendar, when the…
OBITUARY: Barbara Joy Toso, 1940-2018
Barbara Joy Toso of Eureka passed away peacefully with her son and daughter at her side in the early morning of March 25, 2018, at 77 years of age.Barbara was born…
Fortuna Man Pleads Not Guilty in July 2017 Shooting at Arcata House Party
…Williams.Williams had been on the run until Friday morning, when he called the Fortuna Police Department and said he wanted to turn himself in. At the arraignment this afternoon, Williams first…
Arcata’s City Manager Attempts to Answer Questions Surrounding Police Chief’s Resignation
Former Arcata Police Chief Tom ChapmanThis morning's unexpected announcement from the City of Arcata that Police Chief Tom Chapman would be resigning effective immediately left observers with many questions.Obviously its…
(UPDATE: FOUND) MISSING: Eureka Man Missing Since Sunday
…On April 10, 2018, a passerby in the Shelter Cove area recognized Tarrio and his vehicle from news reports of his missing person’s status. The passerby notified the Sheriff’s Office…
Vehicle Submerged in Eel River Similar to Missing SoCal Family’s, Says CHP; Search Continues
…Officials have been unable to locate the vehicle due to the Eel’s high waters. This morning California Highway Patrol Officer William Wunderlich told the Santa Clarita Valley Signal that he could…
Arcata Police Chief Tom Chapman Resigns
…The City of Arcata announces the resignation of Police Chief Tom Chapman after 24 years of dedicated service to the Arcata Police Department.Chief Chapman’s career with the APD began in…
Judge Declines to Drop Child Molestation Charges Against Storyteller ‘Carpathian’; Trial Scheduled to Begin Later This Month
Defendant Robert Beideman, in his 'Carpathian' costume at right.Judge Kaleb Cockrum has denied a defense motion to dismiss child-molestation charges against children’s storyteller John Robert “Carpathian” Beideman, clearing the…
OBITUARY: Dennis Lee Parker, 1949-2018
…In the early 70s, he assisted Arcata Volunteer Fire Dept, worked on the Southern Pacific Railroad Scotia, and taught P.E. at St. Bernard's Catholic School. His police career started at…
OBITUARY: Diva Deverraux, 1965-2018
…As a tiny girl, she sat at the family’s piano with her father, making music together. Music, dance and the arts continued to be a big part of her entire life…
OBITUARY: Keith Irwin Carter, 1949-2018
Keith Irwin Carter passed away on Wednesday, April 4, 2018 at Saint Joseph’s Hospital in Eureka, where he was joking and entertaining the staff until the very end. Keith filled the…
HSU BUDGET BLOODBATH: $9 Million Cut Over Next Two Years; President Vows to Prioritize Students and Classes, Close Third Street Gallery
…Recommendations based on this review of the Center are expected in the fall semester.The reductions outlined in the new budget plan are targeted, rather than across-the-board. They consider spending…
Shows Will Go on at the Mateel (For Now), Says Board President, Despite Suspension Order From California Attorney General’s Office
The reeling Mateel Community Center got yet another bit of bad news last week, after the California Attorney General's Registry of Charitable Trusts suspended its registration as a California nonprofit.The…
Home Invasion Weed Robbery Reported in Shelter Cove; Suspects Said to Have Stolen Cash, Phones, Packaged Cannabis
From the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office:On April 7, 2018, at about 2:30 p.m., Humboldt County sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to a residence on Hillside Drive in Shelter…
Landlords in Fatal Rio Dell Hash Lab Explosion Get Probation; Colleague of the Deceased Get Community Service, Also
Three defendants in a fatal hash-lab explosion in Rio Dell were sentenced today to several years of supervised probation.Judge John Feeney imposed the sentences this morning on David and Tamara…
(VIDEO) Professional Runner Claims Fastest Known Time After Completing Lost Coast Trail in Under 12 Hours
The same week earlier this year when Humboldt residents were gawking quizzically at the patches of white on the ground, a superhuman decided he’d like a fast-forwarded version of the…
Auditor-Controller Taking Taxpayer-Funded Trip to Tahoe for Conference Days Before Leaving Office
Lake Tahoe Resort Hotel. | Screenshot from YouTube video.Humboldt County Auditor-Controller Joe Mellett is planning to attend a taxpayer-funded professional conference at the Lake Tahoe Resort Hotel next week, his…
(VIDEO) Redway Resident Spots Half a Dozen Cars Washed-Up in the South Fork Eel River
Video by Peggy Sarver.The rivers are a-flowin' after areas of Humboldt received between three and eight inches of rain over the past 48 hours, and all that water seems to…
Miranda’s Rescue Saves Kittens Said to Be Tossed Out of Moving Truck Near Fortuna
The saved Kittens with Shannon Miranda.A litter of kittens was saved after the owner of a local animal rescue said the cats were tossed from a moving vehicle in Fortuna yesterday…
GROWING OLD UNGRACEFULLY: Puzzle Overload
Every April, I present some of the best puzzles I’ve stumbled upon during the previous year for a “Puzzler Edition” of my Field Notes column in the North Coast Journal. Here…
DOWNTOWN UNDERGROUND: The Banner of Ultimate Ouchies
…A few windows in the wall, in the upper floor, allowed in the gray daze of light from the overcast sky outside. It was darker than the hour allowed. Rain was coming…
SILK ROAD PASSAGES: City of the Dead
(More excerpts from the journal of Gökhan Yilmaz, aka “The Lord of the Sky”) You might remember me, Gökhan Yilmaz (aka, The Lord of the Sky). Our man James wrote about me…