On this week’s episode of the NCJ Preview, the band is back together as News Editor Thadeus Greenson talks about the new info that has the DA declining to prosecute Cal Poly pro-Palestine protestors. As well as talking Best Of Humboldt 2024 with Arts & Features Editor Jennifer Fumiko Cahill. These stories and more can […]
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‘Regrettably Deficient’
The Humboldt County District Attorney’s Office has decided not to prosecute 27 of the 39 people arrested during the week-long occupation of Siemens Hall on the Cal Poly Humboldt campus in April, while cases involving the other 12 have been referred back to the University Police Department for further investigation. District Attorney Stacey Eads told […]
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Crabs Players of the Year
It was a summer of ups and downs for the Humboldt Crabs. After starting 0-7 in a new conference, our boys would rally back. They would fight and claw their way into contention with a magical midsummer stretch, bringing a competitive and suspense-driven brand of baseball the North Coast may not be used to seeing. […]
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DA Declines to Prosecute 27 Arrested in Cal Poly Humboldt Protests
The Humboldt County District Attorney’s Office has decided not to criminally charge 27 of the 39 people arrested during the Pro-Palestinian demonstrations on the Cal Poly Humboldt campus in late April, during which protesters occupied Siemens Hall for a week. Responding to a Journal inquiry, District Attorney Stacey Eads wrote in an email that she […]
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Scenes from the Junior Rodeo
Nearly 200 boys and girls signed up for a chance to compete in seven age divisions for saddles, lots of buckles and cash awards at the Fortuna Junior Rodeo at the rodeo grounds in Rohner Park earlier this month. When I asked rodeo participants “What event or events are you participating in?” the most common […]
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Tom Jackson Jr. Retreating and Controversy around the Old Jacobs Middle School
On this week’s episode of the NCJ Preview, we’re joined by California Local News fellow Kelby McIntosh, as he talks about Cal Poly Humboldt President Tom Jackson Jr. retreating to a tenured professor position at the university, updates to the controversy swirling around the Eureka City Schools Board of Trustees and the old Jacobs Middle […]
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‘Inadvertent Disclosure’
As controversy swirled in the months after the Eureka City Schools Board of Trustees abruptly decided to forgo a $4 million purchase offer from the California Highway Patrol for its old Jacobs Middle School property and instead entered into an unusual $6 million deal with a mystery developer, the district’s superintendent maintained he did not […]
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Jackson’s Retreat
When Cal Poly Humboldt President Tom Jackson Jr. announced his resignation last month, some were surprised at the news he would be retreating to a tenured professor position at the university. But the so-called “retreat rights” allowing him to leave administration and become one of the institution’s highest paid professors were written into the terms […]
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‘Profound Concern’
Editor’s note: Be forewarned that this story includes antisemitic threats, hate speech and slurs. A former Humboldt County planning commissioner is expressing growing distress at the way authorities are handling the case of a 33-year-old Arcata man who allegedly made violent, antisemitic threats against him, his family and Jews in general. Lee Ulansey, a local […]
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Sheriff’s Office: Two Killed in Kneeland Plane Crash
Two people were killed when a small plane crashed near the Kneeland airstrip yesterday morning, the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office reports. According to a press release, emergency services were dispatched to the airport at 11:15 a.m. to a report of a fire and possible crash, and arrived to find wreckage in a steep ravine north […]
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Huge Games Await the Crabs, with Playoff Hopes in the Balance
In baseball, and in life, sometimes you have to focus on the things you can control. The Humboldt Crabs enter the last two-game set of their conference schedule against the last place West Coast Kings tonight at a deadlock with the Lincoln Potters for the final playoff spot in the PEL, and a chance to […]
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Pedestrian Killed on State Route 96
A 25-year-old man was killed on State Route 96 when he reported stepped into traffic and was struck by a car Friday night, according to the California Highway Patrol. According to a press release, the CHP responded to a report of a vehicle-versus-pedestrian crash at about 11:40 a.m. on State Route 96 west of Shoemaker […]