The dangerous shoaling off the entrance to Humboldt Bay, which the Journal reported on in April, remains of great concern to the sheriff’s office, which sent out a press release today reminding boaters of the shallow waters and hazardous new breaks the sediment has caused. Army Corps of Engineers dredging is scheduled to start in […]
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HSU Gets Sexual Assault Funding
Humboldt State University announced recently that it won a $300,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice to reduce sexualized violence on campus. It’s part of a $8.5 million nationwide effort at 27 colleges. The funding will allow the university to expand its Check It program, which the Journal wrote about in February, as well […]
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Batten Down the Hatches
The North Coast is about to be battered with bad weather — exciting, we know, and California needs water — but that means dangerous conditions for the outdoors-minded among us. High surf, strong winds and lots of rain are expected to land tonight and continue through late Thursday/early Friday. The National Weather Service issued a […]
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Unsealed
Two young people gunned down in the middle of the night at a house party in Arcata. A beloved priest tortured and bludgeoned to death in his Eureka rectory. Two men killed execution-style in a home in a nice, quiet neighborhood of Eureka. Each of these crimes stilled the local community, capturing waves of media […]
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Free to Go
If you’re let out of jail in the middle of the night 50 miles from home, who do you call? For some, it’s Hoopa resident Brad Marshall’s elderly mom. That’s something Marshall would like to see change. Before a crowd of 100 people last week, he asked the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office to reassess its […]
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Conflicting Reports
Shortly after Sandra Lingle moved to Eureka from San Diego 32 years ago, something made an impression. “I saw somebody walking their dog at 11 o’clock at night — a woman — and I was thrilled,” she recalled last week. To Lingle, the sight reinforced that she’d moved to a safe place, a community where […]
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Cold Enough For Ya?
It’s been cold this week, but now there’s water coming from the sky. So, yeah, snow. There are reports of flakes falling in Fortuna, and it’s sticking at highway summits and other high elevations around the county. After tonight’s coastal freezing rain, temperatures are expected to drop into the 20s over the weekend. Keep updated […]