Humboldt County Public Health reported 14 new COVID-19 cases today, making 69 so far this week. Today’s cases were reported after laboratories processed 343 samples with a test-positivity rate of 4 percent, bringing the county’s case count to 3,349. The California Department of Public Health announced today that a benchmark of distributing some 2 million […]
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Pedestrian Injured After Struck by Vehicle in Eureka
At about 5:17 p.m., a vehicle struck a pedestrian near the intersection of Fourth and L streets in Eureka. About 5:20 p.m., an officer told dispatch over the scanner that he was “out with one down in the roadway. The left two lanes of Fourth Street are blocked. Please remember that information gathered from initial […]
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#ICYMI: Here’s Video of the Coast Guard Flyover to Honor Frontline Workers
In case you missed the Coast Guard Sector Humboldt Bay flyovers at Mad River Community Hospital and St. Joseph Hospital to honor those working on the frontlines to keep the community safe during the COVID-19 outbreak, don’t worry. There’s video.
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Costco Sends Healthcare Workers and First Responders to the Front of the Line
If you’ve made an essential trip to Costco lately (hopefully not to hoard toilet paper — seriously), it’s been a very different experience. Shoppers, who are asked to follow social distancing protocols, are limited to two people per membership card, hours have been cut back and shopping is restricted to those 60 and older only […]
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NCJ Preview with Access Humboldt
This week: Is Arcata ready to pay more taxes to keep the firefighters and stations it has, or make tough cuts to keep the costs down? It’s on the March 3 ballot and we’ll talk about emergency response and costs. Plus, Jesse Wiedel’s gritty Heroin Hilton street art installation on an infamous Eureka building and […]
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Crabs Crunch Expos
Over choruses of “O Canada” and riotous, bench-pouding cheers, the Crabs completed a sweep of the California Expos (née Montreal) Sunday afternoon. In the 10th inning, third baseman Wesley Ghan-Gibson punched a walk-off double over the Expos center fielder and sent the Expos on a quiet bus ride back to Central California (a cruel fate, […]