If all goes as planned, the number of California condors flying free over Humboldt County will increase to six on Monday as part of a Yurok Tribe-led effort to return the endangered species they know as prey-go-neesh to the northern reaches of its former territory. The two birds that will take their first foray into […]
Kimberly Wear
Kimberly Wear is the assistant editor of the North Coast Journal.
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Sample Ballot Contains Error on FUSD Bond
County counsel’s impartial analysis of the Ferndale Unified School District’s proposed school bond in the sample ballot recently sent to voters contains an error on the estimated yearly tax that homeowners in the district will pay if it passes. Known as Measure Q, the proposed $7.7 million bond measure to fix a wide array of […]
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Opening Acts for the Sara Bareilles Concert Announced
With the countdown on to Grammy award winner Sara Bareilles’ hometown concert in Halvorsen Park on Oct. 16, the city of Eureka announced today that she has selected two opening acts with local ties for the free show. Sharing the stage will be Mario Matteoli — a singer, songwriter and music producer who also grew […]
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Notorious Eureka Landlord Floyd Squires Dies
Floyd Squires, who gained a Teflon reputation for his ability to evade decades of legal attempts by the city of Eureka, his tenants and neighbors to hold him responsible for unsafe conditions and pervasive problems at many of his properties, has died. He was 76. The cause of his death on Sept. 18 was cardiac […]
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Teen Arrested After Threat Locks Down Fortuna High
A 13 year old was taken into custody on suspicion of making criminal threats for allegedly sending a skull emoji with the message, “Gonna light up the school at 12:10,” to a group of Fortuna High School students, leading to a full campus lockdown Thursday afternoon. According to the Fortuna Police Department, the image was […]
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Yurok Tribe, State Parks Pen Historic Agreement for Cultural Access
The Yurok Tribe and California State Parks signed an historic agreement today that removes barriers to allow tribal members to engage in traditional cultural practices, including the gathering of plants and minerals, on park lands in their ancestral territory. The Global Memorandum of Understanding and Traditional Tribal Gathering Agreement also outlines areas for future agreements, […]
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Yurok Tribal Leaders Attend Feather Alert Bill Signing
Yurok tribal leaders joined Gov. Gavin Newsom and Assemblymember James C. Ramos at today’s signing of the Feather Alert bill, which will allow for the quick dissemination of information when an Indigenous individual is reported missing under “unexplained or suspicious circumstances.” The Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples crisis only gained real attention outside of Native […]
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‘Dire’
Local and state officials are raising concern and demanding answers about PG&E’s professed inability to provide new electric hookups across the southern portions of the county, threatening major economic development from Fortuna down to the Mendocino County border and putting future projects, including a new Garberville hospital, at risk. Second District Supervisor Michelle Bushnell and […]
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Supes Support Proposal for Sue-meg Point Naming
The Humboldt County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to support a proposal to rename the Patrick’s Point headland as Sue-meg Point, following in line with the State Parks and Recreation Commission’s decision last year. The item brought forward by Fifth Supervisor Steve Madrone supports a request that California State Parks submitted to the U.S. […]
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Cal State Says It Can’t Afford a Staff Wage Hike Even if Newsom OKs It
A last-minute bill that sailed through the Legislature may leave Cal State University on the hook for nearly $900 million in new costs over the next decade — possibly forcing it to raise tuition for only the second time in more than a decade. That “may” assumes lawmakers allot no new increases in university funding. […]
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EPD Seeking Individual Suspected of Following Women, Spraying Them with Unknown Liquid
The Eureka Police Department is asking for the public’s assistance in identifying a suspect in five battery and suspicious activity investigations that date back to November of 2021, with the most recent incident taking place on Wednesday. “In each incident the male follows a female victim for a period of time before approaching close enough […]
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Drug Task Force Announces Largest ‘One-time Seizure of Narcotics’
The Humboldt County Drug Task Force announced the largest one-time seizure of narcotics in its history yesterday after serving six search warrants at locations stretching from McKinleyville to Fortuna, resulting in one arrest. The yield — the culmination of a nearly one year investigation — included 30 pounds of methamphetamine, 5.5 pounds of cocaine, 3 […]