On a recent Thursday afternoon, two teenagers appeared in court after taking responsibility for minor offenses they committed in separate incidents that brought them into contact with law enforcement. While an official hearing, this one diverged from standard proceedings in several ways, most markedly in that the teens’ peers filled the roles of counsel and […]
Kimberly Wear
Kimberly Wear is the assistant editor of the North Coast Journal.
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VTY, Not Rob Arkley
We were taught long ago that if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, chances are pretty good it’s a duck. The old adage came waddling back amid news late last week that AMG Communities-Jacobs, LLC, pulled out of the controversial $6 million property exchange agreement it’d reached with Eureka City Schools […]
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Huffman Joins Colleagues in Calling for Biden to ‘Pass the Torch’
North Coast Rep. Jared Huffman joined a growing chorus of Democratic officials calling for President Joe Biden to step out of the race today, issuing a joint message with three of his congressional colleagues directly to the embattled candidate, stating it was time for him to “pass the torch to a new generation.” Huffman has […]
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SECOND UPDATE: Victim of Fatal Shooting Identified
SECOND UPDATE: The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office has identified the man fatally shot near Bridgeville on July 14 as Rafael Orlando Castillo-Cortes. He was 34. According to the updated release, Castillo-Cortes, a Sacramento resident, knew the man arrested as a suspect in his death. An autopsy is scheduled for later this week. UPDATE: The Humboldt […]
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Eureka Man Killed in SoHum Crash
A 34-year-old Eureka resident was killed Saturday evening in a motorcycle crash on Redwood Drive north of Redway, according to a California Highway Patrol news release. The CHP release states Raul Villalobos was not wearing a helmet at the time of the 10:35 p.m. crash which a preliminary investigation indicates occurred while the rider was […]
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Caltrans Selects Tunnel Option for Last Chance Grade
A resolution to the landslide issues that have plagued the narrow stretch of U.S. Highway 101 in Del Norte County known as Last Chance Grade is inching closer to reality. In a decision years in the making, Caltrans recently announced the agency will pursue what’s been called Alternative F, which entails realigning the highway and […]
Posted inLifelines
Kyle Steven Wear: 1970 —2024
Kyle Steven Wear, a beloved son, brother, husband and father whose life’s work was dedicated to protecting the rare and endangered plants of his adopted North Coast home, died April 29 with his wife and stepfather at his side after battling heart issues caused by a virus he contracted six years earlier. He was 54. […]
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Condor Check-in
The North Coast’s 11 condors “looked great” after undergoing recent medical exams, according to an update from the Northern California Condor Restoration Program, a Yurok Tribe-led effort to bring the bird known as prey-go-neesh back to the upper reaches of the endangered species’ former range. The annual spring evaluations are not only an opportunity for […]
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Our Last Best Chance
Four years ago, we took a stand in these pages that still keeps us up at night from time to time. It was November of 2019 and the Humboldt County Planning Commission was poised to decide whether to permit a company called Terra-Gen’s plans to construct 47 wind turbines along Monument and Bear River ridges […]
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Dust to Dust
Arcata resident Michael Furniss traces his aspiration for a natural burial back to a rainy afternoon four decades ago when he was a graduate student at the University of California at Berkeley studying soil science and forestry. Watching swirls of water from the downpour absorb into the ground while sitting near a creek on campus, […]
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Judge Rules Arcata Can’t Put Earth Flag on Top
The Earth flag’s future at the top of three municipal flagpoles in Arcata is in question after a judge found this week that voters there “do not have the power to exempt” the city from following state laws mandating the U.S. flag fly above all others. Humboldt County Superior Court Judge Timothy Canning’s ruling on […]
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One Killed, Another Injured in 101 Crash
The California Highway Patrol is investigating a single vehicle crash on U.S. Highway 101 north of Fernbridge on Sunday that left one man dead and another with major injuries. According to a news release, emergency personnel arrived just before 5 p.m. to find the overturned Ford F150 truck down the side of an embankment and […]