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 […]
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Experts: St. Mark’s Violated Tax Law with Election Sign
In the runup to the November election, St. Mark’s Lutheran Church in Ferndale violated federal rules prohibiting nonprofit entities from engaging in electioneering activities in favor or opposition to any candidate for public office, a pair of experts tell The Journal. St. Mark’s pastor Tyrel Bramwell’s election-related conduct began raising questions among some Ferndale residents […]
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Sculpting Community
In a quiet corner of the College of the Redwoods campus, veterans gather twice weekly to shape and mold clay in a ceramics program customized for them. As rhythmic thuds of hands pressing and slapping clay at workstations fill the room, the warmth radiating from the class transforms a standard ceramics studio into a safe […]
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Quake Confusion
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, […]
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Death of Eureka Resident Found in Humboldt Bay Under Investigation
The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the death of Eureka resident Krystal Shinka, whose body was found in Humboldt Bay on Tuesday morning. According to a news release, the 43 year old was reported missing Dec. 9, with the person making the report telling the Eureka Police Department that Shinka had not been seen since […]