This story was originally published by CalMatters. Law enforcement officers will be banned from interfering with California elections under a new law Gov. Gavin Newsom signed May 27, just in time for the June 2 primary election. The law, which takes effçect immediately, criminalizes the act of taking cast ballots from the custody of a […]
News
Posted inNews
Cowbells and Crab Hands
Jason Arriola stands at the plate, bat ready to swing, and the crowd’s humming dims briefly as everyone watches. The Novato Knicks player facing him throws the ball and Arriola’s arms move like rubber as he swings, sending the ball into the far corner of the field. The crowd grows louder the farther he runs, […]
Posted inNews
Supreme Court Upholds Death Penalty in Eureka Family’s Slaying
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, […]
Posted inNews
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. […]
Posted inNews
‘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 […]
Posted inNews
‘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 […]
Posted inNews
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 […]
Posted inNews
‘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 […]
Posted inNews
‘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 […]
Posted inNews
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 […]
Posted inNews
One School, Nine Students
This story was originally published by CalMatters. School closures are an incendiary issue in nearly every corner of California, as enrollment declines and expenses climb. The topic has sparked parent revolts, teacher strikes and school boards’ desperate attempts to keep districts financially afloat. And then there’s Orick. The picturesque town in northern Humboldt County has […]
Posted inNews
A Wing and A Prayer
There is still “a sliver of hope” this year will be the one for the first condor chick in more than a century to hatch on the North Coast. The breeding pair A0 and A1 have recently been seen together away from their nesting site during a time when a hatchling would still need constant […]