Twenty-four years after a Yosemite lodge handyman was sentenced to death for the brutal murders of a Eureka mother, her daughter and a family friend from Argentina during what was supposed to be a sightseeing trip to the iconic park, the California Supreme Court has denied his appeal. A jury found Cary Stayner, now 64, […]
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In it for the Glory
The 2026 Kinetic Grand Champions who made it across the finish line on Ferndale’s Main Street arrived soaked, sandy, sweaty and swathed in Glory. The three-day pedal and paddle 50 miles in a human-powered contraption race from Arcata to Ferndale with side quests in the dunes and Humboldt Bay drew to a close on Monday. […]
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‘Devastation’
UPDATE: The Humboldt County Elections Office announced Friday that hundreds of ballots from the November special election found earlier this month in a secured drop-off box will be processed. According to a release, the county requested and was granted permission by the superior court to “count the ballots and include the results in the final […]
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Even While Courting Moderates on Voter ID, GOP Leaders Still Push Debunked Fraud Narrative
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. With President Donald Trump dragging them down in the polls, California Republicans are repackaging one of his core crusades into an idea they hope will be more palatable to voters. They are framing their successful push to get a voter ID law on the November ballot […]
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‘We Haven’t Given Up Hope’
In between the moments of prayer and heart-wrenching stories of missing loved ones, Laura White-Woods, a Yurok Tribal Court community outreach manager, found the space to insert a beacon of hope into the otherwise somber room. She shared her dream of a day when there would be no more missing and murdered Indigenous people. A […]
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Your Local Coven
The circular meeting room in the Humboldt Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Bayside is a bright, airy space. Seated in a ring of chairs are a dozen people, mostly members of the Grove of Hekate coven, who’ve come for the monthly full moon ritual. A few people are dressed office casual, while one woman wears a […]
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Panicked California Democrats are Pushing a Risky Strategy: Wait ’til the Last Minute to Vote
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Some California Democrats have a plan to avoid disaster in the governor’s race: Wait until the last minute to vote. With no one candidate emerging as a clear favorite and an open primary where the top two advance regardless of party affiliation, panic has set in […]
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Photos: Eureka’s May Day Rally
On Friday, May 1, an estimated 250 people gathered at 5 p.m. at the Humboldt County Courthouse for a May Day protest jointly organized by the Humboldt-Del Norte Labor Council and Centro del Pueblo. Following the event, many marched along the sidewalks to the music of Bandemonium toward the Eureka Theater for a showing of […]
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‘Goldilocks Time’
Tule and Ishŭng are taking their relationship to a new level — proximity wise. As of early last month, the two are now sharing habitat space without any barriers following a slow introduction process in which the bears got to “set the pace.” According to Sequoia Park Zoo animal curator Amanda Auston, things are going […]
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ICE Readiness and Philly Eats
This week we’re looking at how Centro del Pueblo is getting Humboldt County ready to face ICE with workshops on rights and building allyship. We’re also sampling the goods at a rotating Italian spot with Philadelphia roots. Hit subscribe for weekly updates on Humboldt stories.
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‘To Meet the Moment’
Another Global Sumud Flotilla — the largest to date — is setting out across the Mediterranean Sea in a multinational civilian effort to open a humanitarian aid corridor to the war-torn Gaza Strip. Longtime Eureka resident Sacha Marini is among the hundreds of volunteers taking part, traveling aboard one of dozens of vessels in the […]
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Know Your Rights
Around 75 people crowded into a presentation room at Centro del Pueblo’s new office in Eureka on a recent Friday night for one in a series of Know Your Rights trainings hosted by the community organization. In collaboration with the University of California Davis Labor and Community Center and Service Employees International Union 2015, a […]