Humboldt County News

Jan Box, community liaison for the Orick Community Resource Center, sat at a small table greeting residents who had come to participate in the annual Orick Community Christmas Dinner.

Caregiver Support Group meetings are offered this week in several locations by the Alzheimer's Resource Center for caregivers coping with all types of illnesses and caregiving situations.

Few annual events are more eagerly anticipated, with sweet memories getting one's taste buds tingling, than the annual Girl Scout Cookie sale.

Headwaters Forest Reserve Park Ranger Julie Clark will be the featured speaker at the Humboldt County Historical Society's 52nd annual luncheon on Feb.

Imagine a ball situated on top of a round hill. It can roll off in many ways, and it doesn't take much of a jolt to make that happen.

It was a jam-packed three days for two Humboldt County supervisors who spent part of last week meeting with government officials in Washington, D.C. Third District Supervisor Mark Lovelace, 5th District Supervisor Ryan Sundberg and former Supervisor Jill Duffy -- who's involved in Klamath dam issues -- traveled back east Jan.

LISCOM SLOUGH/JACKSON RANCH ROAD - As dawn's rosy fingers crept over the Arcata Bottom along Liscom Slough last Friday, Feb 10, they revealed to Ted Halstead the hideous pile of debris above, which included all manner of wretched refuse.

Gov. Jerry Brown on Friday signed into law legislation that would preserve school bus funding, a move widely credited to Southern Humboldt parents, school staff and students whose trip to Sacramento cast a spotlight on the plight of rural school districts, which were hardest hit by the trigger cuts to home-to-school transportation.

The Distinguished Young Women of Humboldt County Program will be holding an orientation meeting for all interested Humboldt County high school junior girls and their parents on Saturday, Feb.

Maggie Jean Wortmon, 27, of Eureka, pleaded guilty today to voluntary manslaughter, admitting she engaged in conduct that directly caused the death of her infant son, Michael Acosta III.

As the New Year got into full swing so did the Friends of the Fortuna Library board.

No hazardous materials were found at the scene of a Whitethorn Dumpster fire that burned on and off for nearly 20 hours Wednesday night and through most of Thursday.

Plaza Design in Arcata is hosting a show of mixed-media new works by Anastasia Zielinski this month.

The Humboldt County Coroner's Office on Thursday identified the body of a young man found near railroad tracks in the Arcata area as 30-year-old David Thomas Armstrong of Washington.

The Humboldt County Republican Central Committee is recommending that the California Republican Party formally endorse Dan Roberts for the 2nd Congressional District seat.

With budget dollars drying up, the Friends of the Arcata Library are filling the gap with people power.

Humboldt County Sheriff's Deputies arrested three men during stakeouts of Humboldt Sanitation this week after the suspects were discovered at the facility after business hours.

The Ironside Gallery is one of the newest cooperative galleries in Humboldt County.

The Humboldt County chapter of the Embroiderers' Guild of America will host a two-day workshop with Sara Zander on April 21 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and April 22 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Humboldt Aquatic Bay Center in Eureka.

A Bayside family who was told they would have to dismantle their backyard treehouse because it was too close to a stream might be able to keep the structure, thanks to an exemption from Humboldt County staff.