California’s most high-profile prison will be reorganized as a rehabilitation center under a plan the governor is expected to announce Friday — a move hailed as revolutionary by some prison reform advocates but derided by prison abolitionists as mere window dressing in place of the more dramatic changes they want. Gov. Gavin Newsom is expected […]
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Eureka Announced Partnership to Open Extreme Weather Shelter
The city of Eureka is partnering with the area’s faith-based community to open an Extreme Weather Overnight Warming Center at the Lifehouse Church in Myrtletown in cases of significant events, which could include high winds, freezing temperatures or pervasive rain. According to a news release, the city’s UPLIFT Eureka program, the Eureka Police Department’s Community […]
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Reminder: Fernbridge Hard Closure Begins Friday Night
Caltrans is reminding motorists that historic Fernbridge will be closed for 55 hours this weekend, including to emergency vehicles, after which it is expected to reopen fully to two-way traffic. Relegated to one-way, controlled traffic since being jolted by the Dec. 20 earthquake, Fernbridge will close entirely beginning at 10 p.m. on March 17, reopening […]
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Time to Spring Forward on Sunday
It’s time to spring the clocks forward an hour, with daylight saving time arriving at 2 a.m. Sunday, which means darker mornings and losing an hour of sleep. And, once again, Congress is taking up whether to end what many see as an antiquated practice of changing back and forth each fall and spring that results […]
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Yurok Tribe Hires MMIP Investigator
Julia Oliveira, a Wyandotte Tribe citizen with 25 years of local law enforcement experience, most recently leading the Blue Lake Rancheria Tribal Police Department, is breaking new ground after being hired by the Yurok Tribe to become the first investigator in California fully dedicated to investigating Missing and Murdered Indigenous People cases. “I applied for […]
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Newsom’s Climate Budget Would Slash Funds that Protect Coast
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposed budget would cut funding for coastal resilience projects almost in half, eliminating more than half a billion dollars of state funds this year that would help protect the coast against rising seas and climate change. The cuts are part of Newsom’s proposed $6 billion in reductions to California’s climate change programs […]
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Operation Bales Away
On Saturday, March 4, Humboldt County Sheriff William Honsal got an atypical call. It was from Second District Supervisor Michelle Bushnell, who’d been fielding frantic calls from cattle ranchers in her district who had been blocked off from tending their herds by roads covered in heavy snow and downed trees, leaving their cows unfed and […]
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After a Pandemic Pause, State to Restart Checking Medi-Cal Eligibility
California will soon restart its annual eligibility review for people enrolled in Medi-Cal, a process that has been suspended since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. This means that starting in mid-April, residents enrolled in Medi-Cal, the state’s insurance program for low-income people, will start to receive renewal notices in the mail. The process will […]
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Sheriff’s Office to Snow Goers: ‘Please Stay Home’
The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office is urging North Coast residents to refrain from traveling to “play in the snow” that’s coming down in higher elevations throughout the county, saying it spent the weekend helping folks who got stuck or snowed in. “HCSO special services deputies, along with county partners, have been working tirelessly all weekend […]
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Eureka to Host Mental Health Town Hall
The city of Eureka and Humboldt County Behavior Health will host the first in what’s aimed to be a quarterly series of town hall meetings focused on community health Saturday from 2 to 4:30 p.m. at Eureka City Hall, 531 K St. Topics for the series will revolve around mental health, substance abuse and homelessness […]
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Habitat for Humanity to Help Quake Victims Rebuild
The county of Humboldt and Habitat for Humanity Yuba/Sutter have formalized an agreement for the organization to help local residents make repairs to homes badly damaged in the Dec. 20 quake and Jan. 1 aftershock. According to a news release, the county, city of Rio Dell and the state Office of Emergency Services have been […]
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Town Hall on Earthquake Recovery Efforts
A virtual Humboldt County Earthquake Recovery Town Hall is scheduled to take place tomorrow at 6:30 p.m. with a focus on discussing long-term efforts, especially returning those displaced by the Dec. 20 temblor and Jan. 1 aftershock back to their homes or other housing. State Sen. Mike McGuire will open the session that includes state […]