(March 14, 2024)
A sunny and very timely break in Saturday morning's rainy weather arrived just before wildly costumed Perilous Plunge participants gathered in Old Town for their parade to the foot...
(March 14, 2024)
Ingenuity, "Ginny" to its friends, will never fly again. The little Mars-based helicopter-drone landed badly on its 72nd flight on Jan. 18, 2024, damaging all four of its carbon...
(March 7, 2024)
Look there! It's Stiletto Stacy strutting down the street in her high heels knowing she looks sexier than the women wearing sensible shoes. And there goes Steel-toe Steve daydreaming about...
(February 29, 2024)
Of all the birding news stories that came down in 2023, perhaps none was more unexpected than the American Ornithological Society's (AOS) decision to change the names of up...
(February 29, 2024)
"... at a time when our world, the real world, faces serious problems, [scientists] dwelling on multiverses strikes me as escapism — akin to billionaires fantasizing about colonizing Mars." John...
(February 15, 2024)
"The biological definition of sex wasn't designed to ensure fair sporting competition, or to settle disputes about access to healthcare." — Paul Griffiths, professor of Philosophy of Biology, University of...
(February 8, 2024)
After days of rain, Mother Nature cooperated, providing beautiful, warm sunshine for the 58th annual Trinidad to Clam Beach Run Saturday, Feb. 3. A total of 584 runners and walkers showed...
(February 1, 2024)
Congratulations! You survived the 10 darkest weeks of the year, and now it's time for the 58th annual Trinidad to Clam Beach Run. Running or walking the 5.75 miles from...
(February 1, 2024)
At first blush, the number of the year we're living in, 2024, sounds pretty uninteresting. First off, it's obviously not prime (a prime number being only divisible by 1 and...
(January 18, 2024)
Now that it's January, did you make any New Year's resolutions? Yes? How's that working out for you? No? Good job. The older I get, the more I learn that...
(January 18, 2024)
There are crises and crises, and unless you're an avid science buff, you may not realize that cosmologists — the few thousand researchers whose lives are dedicated to understanding the...
(January 11, 2024)
Those of us who are besotted with birds can often trace our interest back to one particular bird, our "spark bird." Seeing that bird ignited a fascination with the species...
(January 11, 2024)
My brief crime spree included breaking and entering, grand larceny, vandalism, attempted murder, wire fraud, resisting arrest and, finally, indecent exposure. However, as a criminal, I have a line I...
(March 10, 2024)
Tim Cochrane was born the evening of Aug. 24, 1953, in his maternal grandparents’ home in Eureka, California, to James William Cochrane III and Alice Loree Stockton Cochrane of...
(March 9, 2024)
The family of Calvin Harold Kernen is sad to announce his passing on Feb. 11, 2024, in Arcata, California. Cal was born Aug. 5, 1925, in Del Norte, Colorado,...
(March 9, 2024)
Doris Hickerson died Feb. 22, 2024, in Eureka, California after a short illness. Doris May McCann was born in Eureka Dec. 31, 1924, to Andrew Warren McCann and...