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In popular parlance, it can be said fairly that Travis Schneider has landed squarely in the “find out” portion of the proceedings. Seven years after the formerly local developer began construction of his family dream house in Bayside without a building permit, embarking on a long series of violations that would ultimately doom the project, […]

The North Coast has lost another condor. B8 was discovered dead last month, according to the Yurok Tribe, which is leading the Northern California Condor Restoration Program effort to return the bird they know as prey-go-neesh to the northern reaches of the endangered species’ former territory in partnership with Redwood National and State Parks.  Free-flying […]

For three days, music flowed from two stages at Humboldt Brews onto the sidewalk, into the street and beyond the corner of H and 10th streets. There, the rubble and charred remains of seven businesses and eight apartments destroyed in a Jan. 2 fire provided stark contrast and a reminder of the losses — though […]

Hundreds of community members crowded the edges of the Arcata Plaza on Sunday, cheering as a line of firetrucks, ambulances, police cars and other first responder vehicles made loops around the square. The parade was led by a troupe of Cal Poly Humboldt’s Marching Lumberjacks, skipping and spinning as they played their instruments. Handmade cardboard […]

Among the crowds of protesters at the Humboldt County Courthouse on Jan. 30 were dozens of high school students chanting, “No one is illegal on stolen land.” Some had made their way from a walkout at Eureka High School as part of the national strike.  One woman named Shawna accompanied her two daughters Autumn and […]

Dante DiGenova says he assumed the Jan. 2 evacuation of the storied Northtown Books, which he’s owned for 19 years and worked at for 35, was for caution’s sake. “Dog and keys,” were his only priorities on the way out.  The store opened in 1965 in Northtown and H Street was its third location, though […]