The Humboldt Bay Nuclear Power Plant has been decommissioned at last. But that’s not where the story, or its lasting environmental impacts, end. We’ll take a look at the history and future of the plant and its waste products. And what does Eureka Police Chief Stephen Watson’s retirement announcement mean for a department plagued by […]
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A look at the stories in this week’s paper and online.
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NCJ Preview: Mayoral Exit Questions, Hauntings and Spooky Times
This week we’re sharing what we do and don’t know about Arcata Mayor Brett Watson’s exit from the position, as well as the questions surrounding his departure. And in the spirit of the season, we’ve got tales of local hauntings, spooky cinema and graveyard walks. We’re also looking at how El Pueblo Market Panaderia bakes […]
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NCJ Preview: Native Boarding School Deaths, COVID Update and More
As the U.S. and Canada face a reckoning over the abuse of Indigenous children in their forced boarding school systems, researchers in Oregon have been working to document the deaths of children at the Chemawa Indian School. Some of those children were from here in Humboldt County. We’ll talk about the effort to bring their […]
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NCJ Preview: Vaccines and County Staff, Police Shooting Footage and Restoring the Eureka Theater
This week we’re looking at why the board of supervisors declined to require vaccines for county employees, going for weekly testing for the unvaccinated instead. We’re also going into what’s on newly released footage from last month’s police shooting of a suspect on Mad River Road, as well as how law affects what’s made public […]
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NCJ Daily: Law Enforcement Staffing, the Symphony’s Return and Candy Corn Hate
This week, we’re talking about the trouble local law enforcement agencies are having filling their ranks and keeping cops on board. We’ll sort through the myriad reasons and theories for the hiring challenges. Also, it’s been a long time since Setlist columnist Collin Yeo hit a live performance. His story this week both reviews the […]
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NCJ Preview: Sally Arnot, Potter Valley and Local Eats
This week we’re talking about the life and legacy of local arts supporter Sally Arnot, who died Sept. 15. We’ll look back on her work fundraising for the Humboldt Arts Council and the Morris Graves Museum. It’s back to the drawing board for the Potter Valley Project and its efforts to take over the dam […]
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NCJ Preview: Enterprise, Burgers, Place Names and Etiquette
This week we’re looking at the future of the Ferndale Enterprise, newly purchased by North Coast Journal Inc. And it’s Burger Week, so we’re sharing what’s whetting our appetites and whether you can eat 28 burgers in 10 days. Good luck, friends. We’ll take a look at the effort to rename Patrick’s Point, its fraught […]
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NCJ Preview: Otters, Police Transparency and Blackberry Mania
This week we’re talking about the North Coast Otter Art Initiative and the beautiful painted sculptures created by local artists to raise money for otter research. We defy you to scroll through the offerings without smiling. We’re also looking at the importance of de-escalation how a new law makes it possible to gain access to […]
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NCJ Preview: The 1935 Timber Strike and One Last Taste of Summer
We’re looking back at Humboldt mill workers’ fight for higher wages against the timber barons amid the Great Depression. It’s a wild tale of picket lines, tear gas, violence police escalation and hung juries that ends with three people killed and a framed Tommy gun at the Eureka Police Department that’s still a bit of […]
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NCJ Preview: The State of COVID and a Nicaraguan Food Journey
This week we’ve got an update on the endemic spread of COVID-19 in our county and the strain it’s putting on hospital staff. As numbers climb faster than our vaccination rate, the ICU at St. Joseph Hospital fills and staff deal with illness and deaths of community members — some of whom they know personally. […]
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NCJ Preview: COVID-19, Street Art and a Recall
This week, we take a closer look at Humboldt County’s current COVID-19 surge, which is fueled by the highly contagious Delta variant and threatening local hospital capacity with reverberating impacts. We also discuss the festival transforming Eureka’s streets with colorful murals, and what voters need to know to fill out their ballots for the upcoming […]
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NCJ Preview: A Beacon of Hope and a Community’s Center
As Humboldt State University prepares to start a new semester, we look at its Project Rebound, which supports formerly incarcerated students on campus, as well as the inspiring stories of its founder and students. And we discuss the big things happening at the Jefferson Community Center in Eureka, which the Westside Community Improvement Association has […]