After more than 30 years toiling in obscurity in the ultra-complex world of battery technology, Kurt Kelty and the other chemists, electrical engineers and minerals experts racing to design the next generation of electric vehicle batteries are at last having their moment. Kelty, who ran Tesla’s battery cell team for more than a decade, now […]
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Wood Introduces Bill to Prioritize Patient Care Over Nursing Home Profits
North Coast Assemblymember Jim Wood is again trying to ensure that more of government funds allocated to care for some of California’s most vulnerable residents are actually spent on patient care. Wood announced Feb. 27 that he had introduced Assembly Bill 1537, which would require that skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) spend a minimum of 85 […]
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CHP Identifies 21-year-old Blue Lake Woman as Crash Victim
The California Highway Patrol has identified the driver killed in a single-car crash early Friday morning on U.S. Highway 101 in Arcata as Makayla Bernard, 21, of Blue Lake. According to the CHP, Bernard was driving an SUV southbound near West End Road shortly before 6 a.m. when, for unknown reasons, suddenly went off the […]
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UPDATE: 101 Closed After Brief Re-opening
FEB. 27 UPDATE: U.S. Highway 101 is once again closed from Garberville into Mendocino County due to another round of heavy snow, according to Caltrans. No estimation for reopening was immediately available. The road was closed Thursday evening into Saturday as well, but it reopened through the weekend until this morning. Several county roads are […]
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Eureka to Host “Encampment, Tiny House Workshop’
The city of Eureka announced this afternoon it will host a workshop next week to “describe and discuss” the process and requirements to established an authorized homeless encampment sheltering people in tents or tiny homes within the city. The Feb. 28 workshop will feature presentations from city staff and the county of Humboldt about their […]
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Yurok Tribe, Marshals Service Form MMIP Partnership
The Yurok Tribe has been selected to serve as the first pilot location of the U.S. Marshals Service’s Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Initiative, according to a news release from the tribe, which aims to “develop tribally-led collaborative partnerships to proactively examine public safety issues – particularly those involving missing endangered children.” “The Yurok Tribe […]
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Is California Breaking Its Promise to Cut Health Care Costs?
Brian Iv works in a factory in Orange County, earning around $26 per hour. He suffers chronic pain from a lifetime of manual labor jobs and previous workplace injuries, but often treats the pain with home remedies or traditional Cambodian practices. Going to the doctor is too expensive, he said. Iv recently got a raise […]
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NCJ Preview: Post-Chinese Expulsion History, Student Housing and Pizza
This week, we’re looking back on how anti-Chinese racism kept a cannery from making money for the Eel River Valley in the 1880s. And as the housing drama at Cal Poly Humboldt grows, we’ve got an update on how the university plans to house incoming and continuing students. We’re also sinking our teeth into the […]
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California Homelessness: Where are the State’s Billions Going? Here’s the New, Best Answer
In Sacramento, there’s a word that keeps popping up during discussions about the state’s homelessness crisis: “accountability.” Gov. Gavin Newsom has scolded cities and counties for failing to get more people off the street, hundreds of millions in state spending notwithstanding. “Californians demand accountability and results, not settling for the status quo,” the governor said […]
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More than 12,000 Californians are Getting Cash from Guaranteed Income Experiments
Four years after Stockton conducted a nationally-watched experiment, giving 125 households $500 a month with no strings attached, dozens of programs throughout California are testing the idea of a guaranteed income. CalMatters identified more than 40 similar pilot programs that have run, are operating or are planning to launch around the state. They are sending […]
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Former Sheriff Gary Philp Dies
The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office today announced that retired Sheriff Gary Philp died Feb. 6. surrounded by his family. He was 71. Philp, who had a 38-year career in law enforcment, served as Humboldt’s sheriff for eight years before retiring in 2010. Find the HCOE post below: It is with great sadness that we announce […]
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Helping Homeowners: California Expands Mortgage Relief
Angela Morrow was only eight months into a new career as a flight attendant when she was laid off from her job due to the COVID-19 pandemic, putting her at risk of losing her three-bedroom, two-bathroom home in San Bernardino County. Morrow, 63, said she was able to save her home in Bloomington through the […]