Jim Hamm, the former Fortuna resident who along with his wife Nell made international news in 2007 when she used a pen and a branch to fight off a mountain lion who attacked him during a hike in Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park, has died. He was 82. Nell Hamm told the Times-Standard that her […]
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Pole Fight: Fortuna Art Installation Draws Councilmember’s Ire
Fortuna City Councilmember Dean Glaser wanted to be very clear that he didn’t intend to sit passively by and watch the Arcatafication of his city. “There’s two people in the audience. There’s 14,000 people in this city,” Glaser declared at the council’s Aug. 18 meeting. “Where is the support for this monumental idea to put […]
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Eureka Woman Killed While Walking on 101 in Fortuna
A 55-year-old Eureka woman was killed just before 1 a.m. today after being struck by a truck while walking on northbound U.S. Highway 101 south of the Main Street exit for Fortuna. According to CHP, the truck driver stopped a short distance from the incident and called law enforcement. Emergency responders located Margery Wells, who […]
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Vehicle Thefts in Humboldt Declined Last Year
Fewer vehicles were stolen in 2018 than the previous year, according to statistics released by the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office, with Eureka leading local cities in the highest number of incidents. There were a total of 569 vehicles reported to county’s law enforcement agencies as stolen last year compared to 721 in 2017, according to […]
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Friendly City Police Contract Negotiations Get Feisty
The city of Fortuna is in the process of finalizing a new contract with its police union that appears to be leaving no one happy. At the Fortuna City Council’s Aug. 5 meeting, City Manager Merrit Perry explained that the city simply wasn’t able to meet the Fortuna Police Employees Association’s salary requests amid rising […]
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Parolee in Fortuna Murder-for-Hire Case Faces Charges in Death of Eureka Woman
A man convicted nearly 30 years ago in a grisly Fortuna murder-for-hire case is now facing three felony charges and the revocation of his parole in connection to a fatal motorcycle crash that killed a well-known private investigator who worked on several major Humboldt County cases as a court appointed mitigation specialist. Stephen Duane Chiara, […]
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Police Trying to Locate Missing Girl Believed to Be With Her Mother
The Fortuna Police Department is asking for the public’s help in locating a 3-year-old girl believed to be with her mother and grandmother. According to a press release, the father of Aurora Rose Logan last saw his daughter on April 26 and the girl’s mother, Kristen Rose, and grandmother, Maria Rose, cleared out the Fortuna […]
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Fortuna Facing Water Woes After Main Break
If you live in Fortuna and are having some water issues, here’s what’s going on. Workers are tackling a broken main on Smith Lane that will leave some residents without water access for most of the day, while others may experience discoloration due to hydrants being flushed, according to the city’s Facebook page. Residents are […]
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More Than Half of California Nursing Homes — Including Humboldt’s — Balk at Stricter Staffing Rules
More than half of California’s nursing homes, including four in Humboldt County, are asking to be exempted from new state regulations that would require them to spend more time directly caring for their patients. The state’s new staffing requirements for nursing homes, quietly passed in last year’s budget bill, seem universally unpopular. Patient advocates say […]
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Open Door Officially Opens in Fortuna
Open Door Community Health Centers officially added a new facility to its already formidable collection Oct. 26, when officials cut the ribbon on its new state-of-the-art health center in Fortuna. The event, which drew North Coast Congressman Jared Huffman and Second District Humboldt County Supervisor Estelle Fennell, among other notables, marked the official opening of […]
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‘Come into Compliance,’ Says State Water Board
On Oct. 5, 174 notices of violation from the State Water Resources Control Board were sent out by certified mail to residents of the Salmon Creek watershed in Southern Humboldt. Over the next week, the thick stacks of letters dwindled as worried neighbors signed and took home their notices. The letters stated that a property […]
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Fortuna CCC Crew Heads Out to Help Florida After Hurricane Michael
Fortuna members of the California Conservation Corp headed out to Florida this morning to help lend a hand to those devastated by Hurricane Michael, which killed at least 39 and left entire communities in Florida wiped off the map. The crew, joined by another from San Diego, will be sent out across the Florida Gulf […]