Officials have closed down a Eureka motel where two people were found dead in the same room days apart in late February after elevated levels of carbon monoxide were detected inside the location. According to the Eureka Police Department, officers and Humboldt Bay Fire personnel responded to the motel in the 4000 block of Broadway […]
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ICE Protests Set for Friday, Saturday in Eureka
A protest is set to take place Friday from 4 to 6 p.m. at the Humboldt County Courthouse as part of a nationwide strike to remonstrate against ICE and the heavy-handed tactics of the Trump administration’s enforcements actions, including the recent deaths of protestors at the hands of federal agents. According to local 50501 organizers, […]
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Eureka Protest on ICE Killing in Minneapolis
A crowd of protesters, estimated at around 200, showed up on Thursday afternoon in Eureka “in solidarity with Minneapolis,” expressing anger and grief with their words, songs and messages on signs over the death of Renee Nicole Good. An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer shot and killed Good in her car Wednesday morning during a federal immigration […]
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He built a nursing home empire despite state investigations. Now, lawsuits are piling up
California nursing homes affiliated with Shlomo Rechnitz are facing lawsuits alleging that patients were raped, ignored and unnecessarily exposed to COVID-19. His companies deny the allegations. This story was originally published by CalMatters. In February 2024, a Los Angeles County jury awarded $2.34 million to an 84-year-old nursing home resident named Betsy Jentz, finding that the […]
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EPD Blue Envelope Program Roll-out Event Today
The Eureka Police Department is joining the city of Rio Dell and Cal Poly Humboldt in adopting the Blue Envelope Program, which aims to help law enforcement officers easily identify if an individual may have a condition or disability that impacts their ability to communication or requires additional accommodations. Today, EPD will have a roll-out […]
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Emergency Food Distributions Thursday
Food for People is holding two emergency drive-thru distributions Thursday amid continuing reverberations of the government shutdown: from uncertainty around the benefits that thousands of North Coast residents rely on to buy groceries to local federal workers going without paychecks. Carly Robbins, executive director of the nonprofit, says the operations will run just like ones […]
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A Wild Bear at the Zoo
The Sequoia Park Zoo had an unexpected visitor today. A wild black bear was spotted inside the facility by a staff member during a routine morning check of the Redwood Sky Walk but later made its way back into the surrounding woods with a little encouragement, according to a news release. And yes, the wanderer […]
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Ready to Rockabilly
Every October, music lovers from across the nation make their way to Eureka for the Redwood Coast Music Festival, one of the premier roots-music gatherings on the West Coast. This year, for four jam-packed days, Thursday, Oct. 2 through Sunday, Oct. 5, Old Town and Downtown Eureka will come alive with blues, swing, zydeco, jazz, […]
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Defending Democracy in Eureka
Under the gloomy sky, tented booths colored the Madaket Plaza in Eureka as Humboldt Democracy Connections kicked off the first Defend Democracy Fair on Sept. 14. Throughout the day, dozens of people perused the booths of 10 different organizations working to advocate on issues ranging from gender rights and LGBTQ+ rights to climate change and […]
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Eureka Fisher’s Market to Debut June 7
Eureka’s highly anticipated Fisher’s Market has an official opening date, June 7, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., at Madaket Plaza located on C Street in Eureka. As noted in the Journal’s March 6 cover story (“There’s a Fish Market Splashing into Eureka”), this will be the first ever fisher’s market in the county, and […]
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EPD Investigating Fatal Bicycle Crash
A bicyclist was killed after being struck by a semi-truck at West Harris and Union streets in Eureka yesterday morning, the Eureka Police Department announced today. According to a press release, emergency personnel were summoned to the scene shortly before 8:30 a.m. and declared the cyclist deceased shortly after arriving. The collision is being investigated […]
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‘No Kings, No Oligarchs’ Protest Draws Hundreds in Eureka
Despite the weather forecast and a packed social-event calendar on Saturday, several hundred people showed up under the theme “No Kings, No Oligarchs” to again protest President Trump and his administration’s actions in front of the Humboldt County Courthouse in Eureka. Humboldt Musicians for Peace provided an energetic soundtrack for the two-hour local version of […]