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Right next to the upcoming Humboldt Bay Trail sits a blue graffitied shipping container on L Street, home to Arcata’s Bicycle Library. Volunteers open shop every Saturday from noon to 4 p.m., unless there’s rain or a storm. The service is run on a pay-what-you-can system, where customers can choose to pay based on their […]

What a year. In our sliver of the North Coast, 2024 brought triumph and tragedy, drama and departures, and a host of stories that will reverberate in our communities, hearts and memories for years to come. In no particular order, here’s our list of the most important and impactful stories of the year, and this […]

The size-obsessed are still squawking about who’s growing the biggest colorful conifer (spoiler: Mendocino County now has the tallest lighted living Christmas tree, see page 28) but here at the Journal, we focus on quality. Humboldt’s forest of dick moves continues to flourish, making it all the more challenging to choose the pettiest, most self-serving, […]

A group of Humboldt County residents have joined a class-action federal lawsuit filed against North Coast Congressmember Jared Huffman and Fourth District Rep. Mike Thompson alleging the two men voted to use the residents’ tax dollars to fund a genocide of Palestinian people in the ongoing Hamas-Israel war, violating international and U.S. laws. The suit, […]

A second local woman has filed a lawsuit alleging Providence St. Joseph Hospital caused her undue suffering and put her life at risk when it denied her necessary emergency medical care in the form of an abortion, because the unviable fetus she was carrying still had a detectable heartbeat. The allegations in the suit filed […]

In many ways, the magnitude 7.0 earthquake that struck about 60 miles west of Petrolia and rattled Humboldt at 10:44 a.m. on Dec. 5 was entirely typical. It occurred on the Mendocino Fault, a submarine fracture zone that runs more than 2,500 miles west from Cape Mendocino, separating the Pacific and Gorda plates. “That fault, […]

The leaders of the state Legislature have a message for voters: We know you’re frustrated with how expensive California is — and we’re going to fix it.  After a painful election that sparked recriminations and soul-searching among Democrats across the country, state Sen. President Pro Tem Mike McGuire and Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas are returning […]

As those who knew Patty Berg best take time to reflect on her life and legacy in the wake of her Nov. 19 death at the age of 82, they call her many things. The term “trailblazer” comes up repeatedly, as they note Berg’s role as Humboldt County’s first sex-ed instructor, the founding executive director […]