This week we’ve got an update on struggling abalone populations and steps toward rebounding. What’s the deal with KHSU? This week we’ve got some information and local opinion on how things are and aren’t progressing in terms of local content, especially during disasters. We’ll share the few details available on the woman found dead in […]
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A look at the stories in this week’s paper and online.
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NCJ Preview: 2022 Photos, Domestic Violence and Relief in Rio Dell
This week we’re perusing Mark Larson’s photo’s of Humboldt in 2022. We’re also looking at a tragic killing in Eureka and how it appears to fit a tragically familiar pattern of domestic violence. In the wake of the Jan. 1 aftershock, which hit Rio Dell even harder than the Dec. 20 quake in some respects, […]
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NCJ Preview: 2022 in Review and Heroic Food Trucks
It’s been a year … we’re looking at the Top 10 Stories of 2022 issue, from local politics to the environment to crime. There’s even some good news in there! We’ll be rolling our eyes at the roll call of Dick Moves this year, too. Finally, we’re looking at how local food trucks sponsored by […]
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NCJ Preview: The Big Quake, Underreported Stories and Disco Baking
We’re looking at the evolving impacts of the 6.4 magnitude earthquake that hit Humboldt County in the early hours of Dec. 20, as well as the resources and recovery efforts. This week’s cover story has underreported stories from around the country and the billionaire takeover of news media. And if you’re still baking holiday cookies […]
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NCJ Preview: Internet, Wind and Children’s Theater
This week we’re sharing an Indian Country Today story on bringing the Hoopa Valley up to internet speed. We’ve also got updates on where wind power plans are right now and the road ahead. Dell’Arte’s holiday show Nightlight gets a review and a new(ish) winter squash gets the holiday appetizer treatment. Hit subscribe for weekly […]
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NCJ Preview: Fires, Boarding School Legacy, Cartoon Controversy and More
This week we’re recapping the cover story on the year in wildfires and a story about Harvard University holding hair samples from Native children who attended boarding schools. We’re talking about reader responses and our editorial decision making over a cartoon some felt was anti-Semitic. We’ve also got a birding hot spot in an unlikely […]
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NCJ Preview: Flash Fiction, Title IX Update and Street Luge
Title IX, Cal Poly Humboldt, street luge, Ryan Farmer, flash fiction
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NCJ Preview: Shopping Local, Mushrooms and Seasonal Snark
This week we peek at the annual Gift Guide, from Sasquatch stuffies to Guy Fieri merch. We’re also sharing a dispatch from the Mushroom Fair, including a warning about a poisonous shroom cropping up in our county, and taking shots at Starbucks’ seasonal drink specials. Hit subscribe for weekly updates on stories from all over […]
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NCJ Preview: Skilled Nursing and Feeding Those in Need
This week we’re looking into issues in our local skilled nursing facilities — understaffing, lack of care — and how their owner’s business practices play into the problems while making big profits. We’re also talking about the St. Vincent de Paul Dining Facility in Eureka, and how the small staff and volunteers are feeding folks […]
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NCJ Preview: Climate Change, Elections, Bears and Facts
This week we’re breaking down the dire news from the COP27 climate conference, as well as how county and city elections shook out — and in some cases are still shaking out. We’ll also give keeping bears out of the trash a shot and look into a new play at Redwood Curtain Theatre, “The Lifespan […]
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NCJ Preview: Food Waste Recovery, Local Native Art
This week, we’re looking at how Senate Bill 1383, built to help the environment by reducing harmful methane emissions through recycling and food waste diversion, could shake out in Humboldt. We’ll talk about how diverting 20 percent of edible food otherwise bound for landfill can not only help the planet, but those in need locally. […]
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NCJ Preview: CPH’s Title IX Trouble and a Busy Halloween
This week, we’re talking about Cal Poly Humboldt President Tom Jackson Jr.’s stunning comments about Title IX, the federal law requiring equal access to education. Those comments come as a former CPH student athlete is going through a Title IX process regarding her claim of sexual assault by her coach’s husband. We’ve also got the review […]