Humboldt County News

They say it takes a village to raise a child, and at 17, that's precisely how I saw Humboldt County: a small village isolated from the rest of the world.

The Humboldt County Children's Author Festival is setting sail this year with an exciting crew of nationally known authors, who will be visiting local schools in October.

The case: Shane Franklyn Miller is suspected of gunning down his wife Sandy and daughters Shelby Miller, 8, and Shasta Miller, 4, in their Shingletown home in Shasta County on May 7 before fleeing 200 miles to the Mattole Valley.

Officials say the search for a man suspected of killing his wife and their two young daughters continues, but is being scaled back.

The Rev. Tim Doty has agreed to become the interim pastor at Grace Good Shepherd Church.

Humboldt County residents were shaken awake by a 4.4 magnitude earthquake centered 18 miles SW of Rio Dell, California at 6:46 a.m. on Saturday, May 18, . The mild shaker was approximately 19.4 km in depth and there have been no reports of damage.

By Stephanie Micheli April 1, 2013 Humboldt County, CA - Callous MC of Dirty Rat Records releases a new album titled 'Supplemental Income.' It is the rapper's second full-length solo project to date.

Humboldt County students will display their work at the county's annual Industrial Technology Show, from Friday, May 31, through Sunday, June 2, at Bayshore Mall in Eureka.

The proprietors of the Holiday Inn Express in Fortuna, Jeff Durham and Joe Wolosz, announced in a press release on Thursday that they will covert the 46-unit property to The Redwood Fortuna Riverwalk Hotel on July 1. "The change will allow us to connect to a sense of place and to Humboldt County amongst the giant redwoods and the area's state ... (more)

McKinleyville Arts Night will take place from 6 to 8 p.m. tonight in a number of venues around town.

At right, visitors look at some of the work of the 23 teen artists who participated in the "Second Chances" art show opening as part of Arts! Alive earlier this month at Humboldt Baykeeper.

Public officials from the Humboldt Bay and Sacramento Valley areas connected Wednesday in Red Bluff in an attempt to drum up support for an east-west railroad route.

A weeklong search for a Northern California man suspected of killing his wife and two young daughters is being scaled back.

On a recent late April morning, in the hazy half light of dawn, I found myself wearing rubber boots, burdened by several layers of clothing and a shovel, and marching awkwardly through soft sand of the fore dunes to the ocean.

Since service was stopped for safety reasons in the winter of 1996-97, the Northwestern Pacific Railroad has experienced major deterioration through the Eel River canyon.

Nov. 4, 2012, was just another day. I was driving my van to Eureka that evening and it quit running.

Officials confirmed Tuesday that the 14-year-old Eureka teen who went missing for more than a week has been found.

A 20-year-old man reported to the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office that he had been intentionally hit by a truck at approximately 10:30 p.m. on Monday near the Shell Gas Station on 1606 Central Ave.

Authorities hunting for a Northern California man suspected of killing of his wife and two young daughters have brought in dogs trained to search for cadavers.

As the multi-agency Mattole Valley manhunt for triple homicide suspect Shane Miller continued through the weekend, a local superintendent confirmed that area schools were scheduled to reopen on Monday.