EPD Chief Jarvis Retiring, Assistant Chief Stephens to Take Over

By Kimberly Wear on December 6, 2023 at 2:47PM

Eureka Police Department Chief Todd Jarvis is retiring effective Jan. 4, according to an announcement today from the city, with Assistant Chief Brian Stephens slated to step into the role following this departure. Jarvis, whose retirement was announced at Tuesday’s Eureka City Council meeting, is leaving almost exactly two years to the day he stepped into the role of interim chief before officially taking the role less than a year later.

HCSO to Allow Family of Inmate to Donate Organs

By Kimberly Wear on December 1, 2023 at 5:55PM

EPD Identifies 31 Year Old Shot by Officers as Cutten Man

By Thadeus Greenson on December 1, 2023 at 3:20PM

After the shooting, the officer who’d initiated the traffic stop left the vehicle to help the officers who’d been involved in the alleged altercation with and shooting of Williams. At that point, the two occupants of the vehicle left the area.

Proponents, Opponents Talk Measure A

By Thadeus Greenson on November 14, 2023 at 5:53PM

Thurmond said the initiative spawned from some problems he and Watson were having in their Kneeland neighborhood with a proposed cultivation site. He said he came to realize the problem wasn’t the grow itself, but the mechanisms the county had in place to address neighborhood concerns.

Hoopa Tribal Chair Calls for Federal Involvement in Police Shooting Investigation

By Thadeus Greenson on October 17, 2023 at 4:42PM

Hoopa Valley Tribal Chair Joe Davis has asked that the Bureau of Indian Affairs Office of Justice Services be involved in the ongoing investigation into a California Highway Patrol officer’s fatal shooting of a tribal member last month. “Our federal partners are still gathering information,” Davis wrote in an email to the Journal.

Eureka Parking Lot Proponents File More Lawsuits as Initiative Qualifies for Ballot

By Thadeus Greenson on October 10, 2023 at 3:33PM

The great Eureka parking lot war is escalating. Less than a week after the city of Eureka reported that an initiative seeking to block its plans to transform a host of downtown city-owned parking lots into multi-family housing developments has qualified for the November of 2024 ballot, a group of local residents led by Security National President Robin P. Arkley II has filed two more lawsuits against the city, alleging it violated provisions of the California Environmental Quality Act in pushing the plans forward.

How Laphonza Butler Could Reshape California's U.S. Senate Race

By Yup Stella Yu/CalMatters on October 3, 2023 at 9:26AM

A poll released Monday, but conducted Sunday before Butler’s appointment was announced, suggests that California voters generally favor appointing a Black woman to Feinstein’s seat, said Christian Grose, professor of political science and public policy at the University of Southern California. Butler ranked third among nine potential appointees in the survey, and drew more support when respondents were told more about her.

Huffman, Citing Rio Dell, Asks FEMA for more ‘Flexible, Equitable’ Access to Disaster Aid

By Kimberly Wear on September 25, 2023 at 10:13AM

North Coast Congressmember Jared Huffman questioned the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency about inadequacies built into the disaster relief program Sept. 19, specifically citing the recovery struggles in Rio Dell as an example of how the system is failing smaller, rural communities in the wake of natural disasters. While thanking FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell for the important work the agency does across the nation as she testified before the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, Huffman asked for the agency “to provide more flexible, equitable ways for devastated communities to qualify for federal disaster relief from FEMA.”

Can this Plan Fix California’s Insurance Crisis? What You Need to Know

By Ben Christopher, CALmatters on September 22, 2023 at 10:34AM

But Consumer Watchdog — an advocacy group that Lara all but called out by name during his presentation as “bombastic” and a group “materially benefiting” from the current regulatory system — came away with a difficult conclusion.  “He’s basically capitulated to the industry,” Jamie Court, the group’s president, said of Lara.

CA Lawmakers Want to Tax Guns and Ammo

By Lynn La/CalMatters on September 8, 2023 at 9:53AM

With adjournment edging ever closer next Thursday, legislators are continuing to push through bills to beat the deadline.  On Thursday: