What a difference a year makes. On this date one year ago, A3 and A2 took their first flights into the wild, marking the historic return of California condors to North Coast skies after a more than 130 year absence. Now eight of the birds known to the Yurok Tribe as prey-go-neesh are flying free, […]
Kimberly Wear
Kimberly Wear is the assistant editor of the North Coast Journal.
Posted inNews
State Parks, Trinidad Rancheria Sign Agreement on Tribal Access to Ancestral Lands
The Trinidad Rancheria and California State Parks signed an agreement this week that allows tribal members to access and gather on their ancestral lands and “recognizes that a collaborative approach will better facilitate managing and preserving cultural and natural resources in the North Coast Redwoods District,” according to a joint announcement. The five-year memorandum of […]
Posted inNews
Police Shooting Investigation
Four Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office officers remain on paid administrative leave following an April 18 police shooting at a busy Eureka intersection after two suspects in an armed robbery and pedestrian hit-and-run crashed into another vehicle while fleeing a deputy. The suspects, identified by law enforcement as brothers Brandon Widmark, 27, and Jesse Widmark, 18, […]
Posted inNews
Death Investigation Underway After Two Found Dead in Eureka Home
The Eureka Police Department and the Humboldt County Coroner’s Office are conducting an investigation into the deaths of two people found in a residence on the 2700 block of Fairfield Street after officers conducted a welfare check around noon on April 21. A news release states the person who requested the check said they had […]
Posted inNews
Driver Killed in Solo Vehicle Crash Off the Eureka Waterfront Trail
The Eureka Police Department is investigating a solo car crash last night that left the driver dead after he accessed an area of the Eureka Waterfront Trail near Tooby Road. According to a news release, officers responded to the scene around 11:30 p.m. and located a gray van about 300 feet off the trail in […]
Posted inNews
McKinleyville Residents Killed in 299 Crash
Two McKinleyville women were killed Thursday in a crash on State Route 299. According to the California Highway Patrol, they were traveling eastbound toward Lord Ellis Summit in a gray Hyundai Tucson around 12:40 p.m. as a Kneeland resident was driving westbound in a Ford F-550 when the vehicles collided head-on, causing the Hyundai to […]
Posted inNews
Six Years Later
On April 14, one day before the sixth anniversary of David Josiah Lawson’s unsolved killing, Charmaine Lawson stood on the Humboldt County Courthouse steps to once again call for justice for her son. For a several moments, she gathered with about a dozen supporters who were holding up signs, some reading “Stacey Eads Can You […]
Posted inNews
Two Suspects in Robbery, Hit and Run in Critical Condition After Police Shooting, Investigation Ongoing
Two suspects, one of whom allegedly fired at least once at a deputy, are in critical condition with multiple gunshot wounds following a police shooting that occurred after they crashed into another vehicle at Harris and Dolbeer streets during a police pursuit Tuesday afternoon. At a press conference today, Humboldt County Sheriff William Honsal identified the suspects […]
Posted inNews
Salmon Season Crisis
Next month, the National Marine Fisheries Service is all-but-certain to officially close the California ocean salmon season due to what’s forecast to be near record-low returns of Chinook to the Klamath and Sacramento rivers. The shuttering of the multi-million dollar industry will come with wide-ranging implications for those who depend on the fishery that has […]
Posted inNews
Fatal Shooting in McKinleyville
One person has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a shooting at a McKinleyville residence Saturday afternoon left another dead, according to the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office. In a news release, the HCSO states deputies responded to the 1200 block of Windy Road just before 1 p.m. on a call of an unwanted subject, […]
Posted inNews
Salmon Season Closure: Huffman, Pelosi Pledge to Work to Fast Track Federal Aid, Cite Need for Long-Term Solutions
North Coast Congressmember Jared Huffman joined other officials today in pledging to work for the expedited release of federal dollars to help those impacted by the all-but-certain closure of the 2023 salmon season due to what’s forecasted to be near record-low returns of Chinook to the Klamath and Sacramento rivers. “We can’t afford to wait […]
Posted inNews
Is Spring About to be Sprung? Warmer Temps May Be Around the Corner
Are you beginning to feel like this winter weather will never end? Well, there’s a reason for that, according to the Eureka office of the National Weather Service, which reports that last month was the second coldest March since 1887, “looking at the average high and low temperature for every day of the month.” NWS […]