A boil water advisory has been issued for the city of Rio Dell and parts of Fortuna due to today’s magnitude-6.4 earthquake and responding power outage. Residents in Rio Dell and the Forest Hills Subdivision in Fortuna are warned not to drink water without boiling it first or to use bottled water. Water should be […]
Kimberly Wear
Kimberly Wear is the assistant editor of the North Coast Journal.
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NWS Citizen Science Network Needs Your Help
Got a couple minutes each day to help your community? The Eureka office of the National Weather Service is looking for volunteers to join the Community Collaborative Rain, Hail, and Snow network, or CoCoRaHS, to gather data about local conditions. “This grassroots effort is part of a growing national network of home-based and amateur rain […]
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Arcata Seats City’s First All-Woman Council
There’s a new city council in Arcata. On Dec. 15, newly elected members Meredith Matthews and Kimberley White were seated at the dais, forming the city’s first all-woman council, joining just a handful of cities across California to ever do so. (Read more about the landmark occasion in the Nov. 17 Journal story “Marking a […]
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Mentor Condor 746 Being Moved Due to Bird Flu Concerns
The first California condor in more than a century to land on the North Coast arrived by plane March 25 from an Idaho breeding facility. For nearly a year, the 7-year-old male known as No. 746 — with the nickname Paaytoqin, which in Nez Perce means “come back” — has helped raise the eight condors […]
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Commercial Crab Season Delayed
The commercial Dungeness crab season has been delayed until at least Dec. 31 in Mendocino, Humboldt and Del Norte counties due to poor meat quality, according to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. The opening date is pending another round of testing, a news release states. “If results indicate good quality, the fishery will […]
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Karuk Sacred Lands Legislation Moves Forward
A little more than one year after being introduced by North Coast Rep. Jared Huffman, the Katimiîn and Ameekyáaraam Sacred Lands Act has passed out of the House Natural Resources Committee, bringing a nearly decade-long effort by the Karuk Tribe to once again care for these lands one step closer to fruition. The 1,200 acres […]
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Accountable
In the Nov. 17, 2022 issue, we ran a cartoon depicting Shlomo Rechnitz with a laundry list of his specific offenses as owner of Brius Healthcare, the skilled nursing corporation through which he has funneled tens of millions of dollars to other companies he owns, while providing patients with substandard care. Specifically, the cartoon points […]
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Bids for Humboldt’s Two Offshore Wind Lease Sites Hit $331M
The two lease sites for the development of wind farms off the Humboldt County coast went for $331.5 million in yesterday’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management auction, the first ever held for areas on the West Coast. The highest bidders were RWE Offshore Wind Holdings at $157.7 million for 63,338 acres and California North Floating, […]
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Snow, Rain, Wind Set to Start Hitting Humboldt
Enjoy the sun while it lasts. Up to 7 inches of snow is expected, mostly above 2,500 feet, in the interior areas of Humboldt County starting Thursday, prompting the Eureka office of the National Weather Service to issue a winter weather advisory that will be in effect from 4 a.m. to 10 p.m. “Travel could […]
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New Election Report Shows Same Results
The Humboldt County Elections Office released its fourth post-election report today, which changes some numbers but leaves the results where we left off last week. That includes Measure M’s come from behind win to have the Earth flag fly at the top of city-owned flag poles in Arcata, which now stands at 52 percent of […]
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Lead Ammo Used in Elk Poaching Endangered Condors
Authorities are investigating a mid-November poaching incident in Redwood National and State Parks that left two Roosevelt elk dead and put the region’s recently released California condor flock at-risk due to the lead-tainted carcasses left behind. Not only is it illegal to hunt in the interlacing span of protected coastline, old growth forests and prairies […]
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Frigid Temps on the Coast Tonight, Winter Storm Watch in the Interior Wednesday
Interior areas of Humboldt County above 2,000 feet will be under a winter storm watch beginning Wednesday afternoon, according to the Eureka office of the National Weather Service. “Heavy snow possible above 2,000 feet,” the weather message states. “Total snow accumulations of 7 to 24 inches possible. Winds could gust as high as 40 mph.” […]