Willow Creek News

The Humboldt County Coroner's Office on Thursday identified a 38-year-old woman found dead inside a Willow Creek motel on Tuesday as Willow Green Smith.

Crews fighting a wildfire in the Gila National Forest in New Mexico planned to take advantage of lighter winds Sunday by building protection lines on key flanks of the blaze and preparing to send water-dropping helicopters into the air for the first time in several days.

A massive wildfire in New Mexico had burned 70,000 acres and destroyed 12 homes, fire officials said.

Bigfoot historian, Steven Streufert , and Sasquatch researcher, Rhettman Mullis were guests during the first hour of Coast to Coast AM on Thursday, May 24, 2012 .

On May 14, 2012, Leon Alyious Bigleggins, 27, of Willow Creek, pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and felony child abuse resulting in death.

In this Monday, June 5, 2000 file photo Al Hodgson, a volunteer guide at the Willow Creek-China Flat Musuem, holds up a plaster cast of a Bigfoot imprint displayed at the museum's new "Bigfoot Wing" in Willow Creek, Calif.

In this Monday, June 5, 2000 file photo Al Hodgson, a volunteer guide at the Willow Creek-China Flat Musuem, holds up a plaster cast of a Bigfoot imprint displayed at the museum's new "Bigfoot Wing" in Willow Creek, Calif.

In this Monday, June 5, 2000 file photo Al Hodgson, a volunteer guide at the Willow Creek-China Flat Musuem, holds up a plaster cast of a Bigfoot imprint displayed at the museum's new "Bigfoot Wing" in Willow Creek, Calif.

Life-long tennis player, Caroline Jennings calls the divots of uneven asphalt at the Willow Creek tennis court 'birdbaths,' and she wants to get them fixed.

The Humboldt Community Breast Health Project's Annual Vacation Raffle is once again under way.

On Monday, May 14, 2012, Leon Alyious Bigleggins, 27, of Willow Creek, pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and felony child abuse resulting in death.A Both counts included great bodily injury enhancements inflicted on a child under five years of age.

Arcata Theatre Lounge Science Fiction Pint and Pizza Night presents "War of the Robots" and "Cosmos: War of the Planets" , 6 to 10 p.m., free with a $5 minimum food/beverage purchase, all ages.

Arcata Theatre Lounge Science Fiction Pint and Pizza Night presents "Zardoz" and "The Giant of Metropolis" , 6 to 10 p.m., free with a $5 minimum food/beverage purchase, all ages.

Young Dream Quester Aiden Kimball joyfully took his turn with the leaf blower during the Tennis Court Cleanup held in Willow Creek on April 16.

The landscape work and plein air paintings of Stock Schlueter are currently on display at the Sewell Gallery, 423 F St.