My wife and I enjoy walking the trails at the Arcata Marsh and Wildlife Sanctuary, looking at and photographing the usual wildlife, but last Sunday, Aug. 25, around 10 a.m. at low tide, we saw something unusual. It appeared to be a stranded dead adult California sea lion lying covered in mud on the tidal […]
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Eureka City Schools to Talk Jacobs, Grand Jury Response
The California Highway Patrol appears to be back at the table, negotiating to purchase 8.3 acres of the former Jacobs Middle School campus from Eureka City Schools. A closed session item for the board to conference with Superintendent Gary Storts, the district’s negotiator, concerning price and terms of payment of a potential deal with CHP, […]
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Medical Debt Wouldn’t Hurt Credit Under California Bill
Medical debt weighs heavily on the lives of millions of Californians. It can ding their credit scores and hurt their chances of landing a rental or securing a home mortgage. Earlier this year, the Biden administration announced a proposal to stop medical debt from showing up on credit reports. That proposed rule is under consideration […]
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Sequoia Park Zoo Says Sad Good-bye to Sumo, the ‘Original Red Panda’
The Sequoia Park Zoo today announced Sumo, one of the original red pandas to call the Eureka facility home, has died at the age of 15. According to an announcement on the zoo’s Facebook page, Sumo’s passing was “not entirely unexpected due to his advanced age” — the species’ typical lifespan in the wild is […]
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Mystery Developer Blames Eureka for Defunct Property Exchange Deal; City Official Says That’s ‘Laughable’
A day after the Eureka City Schools Board of Trustees voted unanimously to deny the company’s request to extend escrow for a third time on the Jacobs Middle School property exchange agreement reached in December, the mystery developer AMG Communities-Jacobs, LLC, issued a statement confirming it is pulling out of the deal and blaming the […]
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Eureka School Board Denies Extension Request, Potentially Killing Jacobs Deal
The Eureka City Schools Board of Trustees voted unanimously in closed session tonight not to extend a $6 million property exchange agreement with a mystery developer in advance of tomorrow’s deadline for the deal to close. The district controversially entered into the agreement Dec. 14, 2023, agreeing to trade 8.3 acres of its former Jacobs […]
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Pro Parking Lot Campaign Spending Approaches $400K; Disclosure Forms Add to Web of Connections Between Measure and Jacobs Property Swap
Robin P. Arkley II’s Eureka-based Security National-backed ballot measure campaign has spent almost $400,000 this year in its efforts to block Eureka’s plans to convert 14 municipally owned parking lots into multi-family housing developments. According to campaign finance disclosure reports filed with the city of Eureka that detail campaign fundraising and spending through June 30, […]
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Crabs Players of the Year
It was a summer of ups and downs for the Humboldt Crabs. After starting 0-7 in a new conference, our boys would rally back. They would fight and claw their way into contention with a magical midsummer stretch, bringing a competitive and suspense-driven brand of baseball the North Coast may not be used to seeing. […]
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DA Declines to Prosecute 27 Arrested in Cal Poly Humboldt Protests
The Humboldt County District Attorney’s Office has decided not to criminally charge 27 of the 39 people arrested during the Pro-Palestinian demonstrations on the Cal Poly Humboldt campus in late April, during which protesters occupied Siemens Hall for a week. Responding to a Journal inquiry, District Attorney Stacey Eads wrote in an email that she […]
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Sheriff’s Office: Two Killed in Kneeland Plane Crash
Two people were killed when a small plane crashed near the Kneeland airstrip yesterday morning, the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office reports. According to a press release, emergency services were dispatched to the airport at 11:15 a.m. to a report of a fire and possible crash, and arrived to find wreckage in a steep ravine north […]
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Huge Games Await the Crabs, with Playoff Hopes in the Balance
In baseball, and in life, sometimes you have to focus on the things you can control. The Humboldt Crabs enter the last two-game set of their conference schedule against the last place West Coast Kings tonight at a deadlock with the Lincoln Potters for the final playoff spot in the PEL, and a chance to […]
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Pedestrian Killed on State Route 96
A 25-year-old man was killed on State Route 96 when he reported stepped into traffic and was struck by a car Friday night, according to the California Highway Patrol. According to a press release, the CHP responded to a report of a vehicle-versus-pedestrian crash at about 11:40 a.m. on State Route 96 west of Shoemaker […]