The Humboldt County Department of Health and Human Services and Sheriff’s Office have agreed to a series of overhauls after a California Attorney General’s Office investigation found serious lapses in the local child abuse reporting system. Under the stipulated judgement accepted by a judge last week, DHHS’ Child Welfare Services and the sheriff’s office are […]
Kimberly Wear
Kimberly Wear is the assistant editor of the North Coast Journal.
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Snow Today, Freezing Temperatures Tonight
If you woke up to snow or hail on the ground, you’re not alone. Humboldt residents from Piercy to Willow Creek saw their fair share of the white stuff, with snow even dusting the ground at sea level, according to the Eureka office of the National Weather Service. “We even had snow down at the […]
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Man Found in Van Duzen ID’d as Missing Spaniard
The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office has identified the man whose body was found on Van Duzen River bar last week as Spaniard Iván Liñan Cano, who went missing in late November while suffering from a mental health crisis. He was 31. The professional mountain climber had leaped out of a car on Nov. 28 after […]
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Coast Guard Rescues Another Boat Today (With Video)
Yet another crab fishing vessel with two onboard was escorted back to port today, the fourth Coast Guard rescue mission in as many days. The call came in around 10:30 a.m. and the Comet was back at Woodley Island by 1:30 p.m. after a prop failed. No injuries were reported. On Monday, the Coast Guard […]
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Coast Guard Responds to Three Rescues in Three Days
For the third time in three days, the Coast Guard was dispatched to help local fishermen in distress. In the latest rescue, a lifeboat crew was sent around 1 p.m. Monday to assist four Dungeness crab fishermen aboard the 58-foot Lori Ann, which had become disabled amid heavy fog. After putting the vessel in a […]
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Crab Season Starts With Vessel Rescue, Fisherman Lost Overboard
After spending 11 hours combing 700 square miles off the coast, the U.S. Coast Guard has suspended the search for a crew member who fell off a crabbing boat in a tragic start to the commercial Dungeness season. “It is with a heavy heart the Coast Guard makes the decision to suspend a search-and-rescue case,” […]
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Celestial Trifecta Wednesday: A Super Blue Blood Moon
In case you haven’t heard, a rare celestial event known as a “super blue blood moon” — try saying that three times fast — will be unfolding overhead Wednesday morning, if the North Coast’s notoriously gray skies don’t get in the way. Despite the somewhat ominous name, a super blue blood moon is basically a […]
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Rare Waterspout Makes Landfall at Woodley Island
Meteorologists at Eureka’s National Weather Service’s office are hoping local boat owners can check their wind gauges to help pinpoint the strength of a waterspout that went through the marina late Thursday afternoon before moving onto Woodley Island. Security footage captured an image of the 4:41 p.m. wind event, basically a tornado over water, which […]
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Trusted Weatherman Jim Bernard has Died
Jim Bernard, the popular, longtime Channel 3 meteorologist who was also an air traffic controller at the Arcata-Eureka airport has died, the television station announced. He was 64. Trusted for his accurate forecasts and known for referring to viewers as “weather fans,” Bernard stepped down from the job in 2012 after a neurological disease began […]
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Another One Leaves the Bench: Judge Feeney to Retire
Judge John T. Feeney today announced he is retiring effective Feb. 28 after more than 20 years on the bench in Humboldt County. Over the years, Feeney has presided over some of the region’s most notorious cases, including the 2016 murder trial of Gary Lee Bullock, who was convicted in the brutal torture death of […]
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About That Alaskan Quake This Morning …
If you are like a lot of people in Humboldt County, you woke up this morning to find out a massive earthquake off the Alaskan coast had triggered a tsunami watch but it was already over. Local emergency officials want residents to know that they were at the ready to set the alarm after today’s […]
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Huffman Says No to Stopgap Bill for ‘Sh*tdown’
North Coast Congressman Jared Huffman once again took the Republican majority to task for its “colossal failure to govern” in a statement today about his reasons for voting against a short-term spending bill to end the government shut-down — or “sh*tdown,” as he’s called it — at least for the time being. In a release, […]