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California Hospitals Keep Closing Their Labor Wards. Can Lawmakers Do Anything About It?
Kristen Hwang / April 17, 2024, 7:20 a.m. / Sacramento
Democrats Kill California Homeless Camp Ban, Again
Marisa Kendall / April 17, 2024, 7:08 a.m. / Sacramento
… Safety Committee on a 1-3 vote. The measure by Senate GOP leader Brian Jones and Democratic Sen. Catherine Blakespear, both of the San Diego area, would have made camping within 500 feet of a school, open …
OBITUARY: Drucilla Yvonne (Denham) Bussman, 1950-2024
LoCO Staff / April 17, 2024, 6:56 a.m. / Obits
Sheriff’s Office Seeks Help Locating Woman Who Last Contacted Her Family in February
LoCO Staff / April 16, 2024, 12:13 p.m. / Missing
Mountain Lion Spotted Near Humboldt Hill Home
Andrew Goff / April 16, 2024, noon / Wildlife
Vital Climate Tool or License to Pollute? The Battle Over California’s First Carbon Capture Project
Alejandro Lazo / April 16, 2024, 7:01 a.m. / Sacramento
… , a few miles from the mostly Latino, low-income community of Buttonwillow, California Resources Corp. is seeking approval to inject 1.46 million metric tons of carbon dioxide a year over a 26-year period …
How Gavin Newsom’s Budget Sidesteps the Growing Cost of CalPERS Pensions, for One Year
Adam Ashton / April 16, 2024, 7 a.m. / Sacramento
… the state general fund $1.7 billion, making it a small but important part of Newsom’s plan to manage California’s yawning budget deficit. There’s one catch: the independent Legislative Analyst’s Office …
OBITUARY: Ruby Nicole Brackenbury, 1992-2024
LoCO Staff / April 16, 2024, 6:56 a.m. / Obits
OBITUARY: Earl Catlett, 1946-2024
LoCO Staff / April 16, 2024, 6:56 a.m. / Obits
OBITUARY: Beverly Strubinger, 1947-2024
LoCO Staff / April 16, 2024, 6:56 a.m. / Obits
OBITUARY: Marcia Mills, 1935-2024
LoCO Staff / April 16, 2024, 6:56 a.m. / Obits
OBITUARY: Angela Christine Knapp, 1969-2024
LoCO Staff / April 16, 2024, 6:56 a.m. / Obits
Meet the New QUEEN of the KING Range! Artist-in-Residence to Cook Up Cool Stuff About One of Humboldt’s Favorite Wild Places
LoCO Staff / April 15, 2024, 4:33 p.m. / Art
Human Remains Found Near Mad River; Sheriff’s Office Thinks It Knows Whose They Are
LoCO Staff / April 15, 2024, 3:06 p.m. / News
California Sues Huntington Beach to Stop Voter ID
Alexei Koseff / April 15, 2024, 2:47 p.m. / Sacramento
NEW LAND ABOVE THE HIGHWAY? The ‘Arcata Cap’ Project Would Build Five Acres Suspended Over Highway 101
Stephanie McGeary / April 15, 2024, 12:52 p.m. / Infrastructure
Cal Poly Humboldt’s New $7.9 Million Ocean Research Vessel Arrives in 2025
LoCO Staff / April 15, 2024, 9:42 a.m. / Education
Why Tortillas Sold in California May Be Forced to Add a New Ingredient
Ana B. Ibarra / April 15, 2024, 6:51 a.m. / Sacramento
… that rule took effect, the proportion of babies born with neural tube defects has dropped by 35% — about 1,300 fewer babies every year — according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention …
GROWING OLD UNGRACEFULLY: I’m Confused!
Barry Evans / April 14, 2024, 7 a.m. / Growing Old Ungracefully
… .) According to Merriam-Webster, biweekly means both:1: occurring, done, or produced every two weeks2: occurring, done or produced twice a weekA commentary by the M-W editors notes, “The problem lies …
Because People Get Their News in Facebook Comment Sections, City of Eureka Issues Press Release Stating Sequoia Park Zoo Is Not Closing and Never Was
LoCO Staff / April 13, 2024, 5:14 p.m. / Local Government
HUMBOLDT HISTORY: Studying and Not Studying at Humboldt State During the Second World War, When Young Women Made Up Most All of the Student Body
Naida Olsen Gipson / April 13, 2024, 7:30 a.m. / History
… celebrated my seventeenth birthday less than a month before he died. One would think that with a war on. 1 would have been independent and worldly, but that was not the case. I missed my father and worried …
OBITUARY: Pamela Ann Lundblade, 1945-2024
LoCO Staff / April 13, 2024, 6:56 a.m. / Obits
Seven Years Later, Arcata Police Hope That More Witnesses to the Killing of David Josiah Lawson Will Come Forward
LoCO Staff / April 12, 2024, 4:40 p.m. / Crime
[UPDATE: Opens Friday] Reviews are In for the Entirely Humboldt-Filmed Bigfoot Family Drama Sasquatch Sunset
Ryan Burns / April 12, 2024, 4:33 p.m. / MOVIED!
The Sequoia Park Zoo Foundation Announces That it is Dissolving; City of Eureka to Take Over Fundraising Duties, Press Release Says
LoCO Staff / April 12, 2024, 3:17 p.m. / Local Government
[UPDATED] Report From Animal Advocacy Group Finds ‘Deception, Cruelty and Animal Abuse’ at Alexandre Family Farm in Crescent City
Ryan Burns / April 12, 2024, 2:47 p.m. / Animals , Business , Government
California Requires New Homes to Have Solar Panels. Should Wildfire Victims Get a Break?
Ryan Sabalow / April 12, 2024, 7:30 a.m. / Sacramento
OBITUARY: Michele (Feldman) Baughman, 1937-2024
LoCO Staff / April 12, 2024, 7:18 a.m. / Obits
… OBITUARY: Michele (Feldman) Baughman, 1937-2024 Michele (Feldman) BaughmanMay 12, 1937- April 1, 2024On Monday, April 1, 2024, at 7:42 pm, Michele (Feldman) Baughman died peacefully …
OBITUARY: Melvin Leon Snow Jr., 1964-2024
LoCO Staff / April 12, 2024, 7:08 a.m. / Obits
… OBITUARY: Melvin Leon Snow Jr., 1964-2024 Melvin Leon Snow Jr., also known as Mel, Ralph, or Boo, passed away on April 1, 2024, in Eureka after a hard fought battle with cancer. He …
Cal Poly Humboldt and UC Davis Launch Arcata-Based Program to Prepare Native Americans for Med School
LoCO Staff / April 11, 2024, 4:01 p.m. / Cal Poly Humboldt , Tribes
… apply again. Fewer than 1% of doctors in the United States are Native American.The Huwighurruk program is the first postbaccalaureate program in the state aimed at helping Native American students …
