A hearing on Providence St. Joseph Hospital’s request to dismiss large portions of a lawsuit the California Attorney General’s Office filed last year alleging the Catholic-based provider violated state laws by denying a local woman emergency abortion care is set for Feb. 14 in Humboldt County Superior Court. In filings this week, the AG’s Office […]
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Enter the Papaya Lounge
Among the creators of the bawdy, wildly funny Papaya Lounge cabaret, now in its sixth season of local sell-out shows, one was so shy as a youngster that her family had to face away from her as she crooned “Don’t Cry Out Loud.” Another began as a competitive gymnast and dramatic Bible verse reader. The […]
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‘Complex Tradeoffs’
Five conservation groups, including the Arcata-based Environmental Protection Information Center, recently joined in the legal defense of a controversial U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plan to protect the endangered northern spotted owl by killing thousands of invasive owls impeding their survival in designated areas, including parts of the North Coast. On Jan. 21, a Washington […]
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Fortuna: Councilmember Mobley Resigns Amid FBI Investigation
UPDATE: The Fortuna City Council voted unanimously Feb. 3 to solicit applications for the seat recently vacated by Councilmember Kris Mobley, who resigned last week, and appoint her replacement. Mobley informed the city she would be resigning her post, effective immediately, in an email last week and the city promptly issued a press release announcing […]
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Healthcare Leaders Talk Recruitment, Retention in Panel Discussion
In the midst of somewhat rambling closing comments at a recent panel discussion on healthcare in Humboldt, Mad River Community Hospital CEO Doug Shaw told a story. Arcata’s first hospital, he said, was built in 1911, though it wasn’t so much a hospital, as a two-story home with a surgical suite on the second floor […]
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EPD Seeking 2 Drivers Possibly Involved in Pedestrian Fatality
The Eureka Police Department is investigating the death of a pedestrian hit while walking near Broadway and Tomlinson streets last night and asking the drivers of two cars who might have been involved to contact law enforcement. According to a news release, EPD officers responded to the intersection at around 9:51 p.m. and found the […]
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Sanctuary in the Storm, Pruning Lessons, Tools and Warnings, and Kimchi and Alfredo? Hear Me Out…
Sanctuary in the Storm, Pruning Lessons, Tools and Warnings, Kimchi and Alfredo? Hear Me Out
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Centro del Pueblo Announces Immigration Hotline
Centro del Pueblo has launched an “ICE-Watch/Migra-Watch” hotline for local community members to report immigration enforcement activity. The Arcata-based nonprofit sent out an email this morning announcing it had started the hotline — (707) 200-8091 — as a part of its Rapid Response Network, which seeks to empower community members to “observe and provide vital […]
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Sanctuary in the Storm
A palpable fear was already spreading in some local communities before President Donald J. Trump took the oath of office in the Capitol Rotunda on Jan. 20 and decried what he called an “invasion” of migrants into the United States, quickly following up his inaugural address by signing a flurry of executive orders to reshape […]
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Arcata Earth Flag Measure Back In Court
The question of whether voters can compel the city of Arcata to fly the Earth flag at the top of the city’s municipal flagpoles as a symbolic gesture, despite a conflict with state laws mandating the United States flag fly above all others, is back in court. Proponents of the successful citizen-led Measure M — […]
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Eureka Group Marches in Resistance
More than 200 people joined the People’s March in Eureka at the Humboldt County courthouse on Saturday morning in the nationwide day of protest ahead of Trump’s second inauguration today. Eight years ago, more than 8,000 people appeared for the local Women’s March (now renamed as the People’s March) in Eureka, protesting Trump’s first inauguration […]
