Providence St. Joseph Hospital has filed a motion asking a Humboldt County Superior Court judge to dismiss the bulk of the lawsuit brought against by the California Attorney General’s Office alleging it illegally denied abortion services to a local woman, while asking that the rest of the suit be stayed pending a state investigation. The […]
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Ferndale Boy Killed in Fall From Truck
A 3-year-old boy was killed Sunday morning after falling from the flatbed of a truck near Centerville Road, according to the California Highway Patrol. Another 5-year-old child who was also riding unrestrained was not injured. According to a CHP press release, a 56-year-old man was driving with the children, all Ferndale residents, around 8:45 a.m. […]
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Leishman, Former Journal General Manager, Dies
Chuck Leishman, the former general manager and publisher of the North Coast Journal, died Thursday. He was 72. Leishman spent more than 40 years in the newspaper business, almost all of it working for alternative weeklies, doing everything from writing and selling ads to serving as owner-publisher. It was a job offer from the Journal […]
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Top 10 Dick Moves of 2024
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, […]
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Group Brings Class Action Suit Against Huffman
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, […]
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The Top 10 Stories of 2024
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 […]
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Former HumCo Fair Bookkeeper Pleads Guilty in Embezzlement Case
The former bookkeeper accused of embezzling more than $400,000 from the Humboldt County Fair Association has pleaded guilty to five federal counts of wire fraud. Tafarella, 49, faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in federal prison and a fine of up to $250,000 or both for each count when she’s sentenced at a hearing […]
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HumCo Dairy Farms Not Heavily Affected by Avian Flu State of Emergency
Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency on Wednesday in response to Avian Influenza, also known as “Bird Flu,” being detected in dairy cows in Southern California. This comes after the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) ordered a new national milk testing regimen to better monitor the outbreak at the beginning of the month. […]
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NCJ Preview: The life of Mark Campbell and St. Joseph Hospital update
On this week’s episode of the NCJ Preview, we’re joined by Arts and Features Editor Jennifer Fumiko Cahill, who honors the life of the beloved local chef and ceramicist Mark Campbell in her piece “Big Heart.” News Editor Thadeus Greenson gives an update on St. Joseph Hospital and a second harrowing lawsuit related to care […]
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‘A Big Heart’
In the video, you can only see Mark Campbell’s hands, blunt-fingered and already pale with clay slip, wedding band still visible as he cups a tilted little volcano of clay turning drunkenly on the wheel. He presses it to a symmetrical cake before scraping the bottom edge to clear the excess. Then digging in at […]
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‘A Nightmare on Replay’
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 […]
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Huffman Tapped for Natural Resources Leadership Position
North Coast Congressmember Jared Huffman has been named the ranking member of the House Natural Resources Committee after a weeks-long campaign for the post. “It is the honor of my lifetime to win this election and be named ranking member of the Natural Resources Committee,” Huffman said in a press release of his new role […]