Humboldt County Public Health reported today that the county has confirmed two COVID-19 deaths since its last report April 6: One was a resident age 80 or older and the other was an individual in their 50s. One new hospitalization was also reported today but, according to a state database, eight people are currently hospitalized […]
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UPDATE: Snow in the Mountains, Rain, Winds on the Coast
UPDATE: The Eureka office of the National Weather Service has extended the winter weather advisory to 6 a.m. on Wednesday for interior areas of Humboldt County above 2,000 feet. “Travel could become difficult at times over some mountain passes at Berry Summit on Highway 299, and at the Collier Tunnel on Highway 199. Chain restrictions […]
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Armed Kneeland Murder Suspect Arrested in Santa Cruz
A 27-year-old Rhode Island man wanted in connection with the homicide of a woman found dead in her home April 2 was arrested in Santa Cruz on Sunday, according to the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office. The victim has been identified as Emily Rose May Lobba. She was 28. Austin Michael Medeiros was taken into custody […]
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Return of the Condor: Watch the Birds’ Arrival Home on Live Stream
UPDATE: The four young condors have arrived and will spend the next few weeks with a “mentor” bird brought in to impart important social and survival skills before being sent free to soar in the North Coast’s skies. PREVIOUS: More than a century has passed since condors last soared over Yurok ancestral lands but that’s […]
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Mercury Rising: Higher Temps Expected this Week
With the arrival of spring comes some warmer temperatures this week. The coast is forecast to see a partly cloudy day with highs in the high 50s to 60 degrees on Monday before moving on up to just about 70 degrees on Tuesday amid sunny skies. Inland, areas like Hoopa and Garberville will see the […]
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Quake-Up Call: Tsunami Drill in Manila
Heads up, Manila. A tsunami drill taking place tomorrow is going to make for a noisy morning, with sheriff’s deputies and Arcata Fire Department trucks making their way through neighborhoods there while sounding hi-lo evacuation sirens. To be clear, this is only a drill. “Humboldt County is prone to a variety of natural and human-caused […]
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Time to Test for Tsunami Preparedness
In just the last few months, Mother Nature has sent out a few reminders about the North Coast’s seismic vulnerability, including two earthquakes separated by seconds in December — a magnitude-5.7 and 6.2 — and the tsunami generated by a volcanic eruption near Tonga in January. While Humboldt County was largely spared in both cases […]
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Auditor-Controller Working to Meet State’s Hard March 16 Deadline for Delinquent Report
The State Controller’s Office has clarified that the final demand letter sent from the Attorney General’s Office to Humboldt County Auditor-Controller Karen Paz Dominguez threatening to fine her $5,000 if she failed to turn in a long-overdue 2019-2020 financial report was not, in fact, a mistake, as Paz Dominguez suggested at the March 1 meeting […]
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$430,000 Behavioral Grant to Assist HCSO with Crisis Intervention
The Humboldt County Department of Health and Human Services Behavioral Health Branch has been awarded a $430,000 Behavioral Health Justice Intervention Services Project from the state to assist the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office in responding to mental health crisis calls starting next week. “This grant will help increase opportunities to stabilize individuals in mental health crisis in the community […]
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Major League News for Mad River Brewery
A little bit of Humboldt will soon be on tap at Oracle Park in a groundbreaking partnership between San Francisco Giants and Mad River Brewery — one of the first tribally owned breweries in the country. ‘There have been dreams that sometimes seemed unreachable; finding a tribal product for sale in a professional stadium was […]
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Hard Freeze Warning: Temps Likely to Dip into the 20s
Just two weeks after unseasonably warm temperatures set new highs for the date, the North Coast is headed in the opposite direction, with record low temperatures expected in the region tomorrow morning, a cold trend likely to continue Thursday and Friday. The Eureka office of the National Weather Service has issued a hard freeze warning […]
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UPDATED: Forecast: Snow in the Mountains, Rain Across the Region
The Eureka office of the National Weather Service has issued a winter weather advisory for the mountains of northern Humboldt County and interior areas of Southern Humboldt and Del Norte County that runs for 24 hours starting at 7 a.m. Monday. According to the advisory snow is expected a total of 3 to 5 inches […]