The National Weather Service Eureka is reporting hazardous surf conditions through tonight with possible waves of up to 20 feet and is urging beachgoers to avoid rocks, jetties and steep beaches. “Always remember to never to turn your back on the ocean,” reads the NWS tweet. See the full warning below. Hazardous surf conditions will […]
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A Flâneur Wanders the Streets of Eureka
The French word flâneur isn’t a word you hear much around here. It originally meant a 19th century male who loitered, strolled and wandered around Paris. Although born 100 years later, Henry Miller, who meandered all over Paris in the 1930s, was one. After he left France, he wrote, “There are scarcely any streets in […]
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EPD POP Detains 14 People at Eureka Residence This Morning
This morning Eureka’s Problem Oriented Policing (POP) team showed up again at the residence of 204 West Hawthorne Street which has a history of law enforcement raids for drugs and in response to neighbor’s complaints. This morning, a large contingent of officers arrived and detained a number of people who were in the home. “POP […]
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Caltrans Charts Ambitious $155M Plan for Eureka’s Broadway
Broadway has long been an integral yet neglected part of Eureka. As a road that serves both as a state highway and as a city “Main Street,” it fills neither role satisfactorily. Half of all automobile accidents in Eureka happen on Broadway. This 3-mile stretch of road, which serves 35,000 vehicles daily, has been the […]
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Christmas Storm Brought Significant Rainfall
The storm that hit northwest California on Dec. 25-26 delivered a healthy wallop of rain to the region with some areas seeing up to 4 inches of precipitation. While most areas received between half an inch to an inch and a half, Honeydew received almost 4 inches of rain. Eureka (at Woodley Island) saw 0.71 inches, […]
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NWS Issues Sneaker Wave Warning
A word of caution to beachgoers: the North Coast could experience sneaker waves starting Tuesday afternoon. According to the Eureka office of the National Weather Service, “A long-period west to northwest swell will bring a threat for sneaker waves to area beaches starting Tuesday afternoon. Periods of smaller waves will be accompanied by sudden larger waves […]
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Eureka Man, 72, Killed in SR 36 Crash
The CHP reports a 72-year-old Eureka man has been identified as the person killed in a single vehicle crash Dec. 20 on State Route 36 east of the Bernard Hemenway Memorial Bridge. According to a news release, Paul Pennington, who was the only person in the vehicle, died at the scene. The CHP is continuing […]
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HCSO Investigating McKinleyville Missing Person
The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a missing person report of a missing 48-year-old Sean Lance Hawkins, aka “Hawkeye,” of McKinleyville who was last seen on Dec. 4 in Eureka. Hawkin’s family reported him missing on Monday. According to the release, his vehicle was found unoccupied in a wooded area near Clam Beach Road and Dows […]
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Suspect in Samoa Homicide Arrested
The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office reports a person of interest in a Nov. 15 homicide was arrested Dec. 10 by a Eureka Police Department officer who recognized him. Eureka resident Travontae Javoni Hutson, who was taken into custody at a residence on West Hawthorne Street after initially fleeing the officer, was booked into jail on […]
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Three Staff Tested Positive for COVID-19 at Sempervirens Psychiatric Hospital
The Humboldt County Department of Health and Human Services has confirmed that three staff members have tested positive for COVID-19 at Sempervirens 24-Hour Psychiatric Hospital, a 16-bed in-patient facility in Eureka. According to the release, one staff member and a close contact tested positive for the virus on Sunday while the third tested positive during […]
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County Confirms Two More COVID Deaths
Public Health reports two more Humboldt residents have died — marking three deaths in less than one week — and 64 new COVID-19 cases have been reported since Friday, as local cases continue to surge. One of those who died was in their 70s and the other was in their 90s. Both were residents of […]
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Back-to-Back Fires in Fields Landing and Eureka This Morning
Humboldt County firefighters were busy this morning as they responded to two back-to-back structure fires, one in Fields Landing and another on Broadway. The fire at Fields Landing was in a mobile home at Third and B streets. Firefighters quickly stopped the fire from spreading and destroying a nearby utility pole. Firefighters from having extinguished […]