Update on Courthouse White Powder Incident

by Kimberly Wear on October 30, 2018 at 4:45PM

Read the full county release below: Based on results from yesterday’s field tests, the Humboldt County Department of Health & Human Services - Public Health concluded that the substance found on the ground floor court house door at 421 I Street in Eureka was not an identified chemical or biological agent.

Open Door Officially Opens in Fortuna

by Thadeus Greenson on October 29, 2018 at 2:54PM

Crab Season Opener For Patrick's Point North Delayed by Domoic Acid

by Kimberly Wear on October 25, 2018 at 12:08PM

Read the full release from the CDFW below: California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) Director Charlton H. Bonham has enacted a delay to the opening of the recreational Dungeness crab fishery in part northern California.

SECOND UPDATE: Warning Issued on Dungeness Crab After Testing Shows Toxin

by Kimberly Wear on October 25, 2018 at 10:21AM

Read the release from the California Department of Public Health below: SACRAMENTO - The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) is advising recreational anglers not to eat Dungeness crab caught between Patrick’s Point North and the Oregon border.

Hospital Cuts, Awkward Railroad Talks, Shelter Funding on Tap in Eureka

by Kimberly Wear on October 16, 2018 at 3:33PM

The draft letter to California Attorney General Xavier Becerra states the claims being made about the project “seem highly questionable” and cites reporting by the Lost Coast Outpost’s Ryan Burns, whose story on the subject can be found here. Also on the agenda is continued funding for Betty Chinn’s Blue Angel Village, moving forward with allowing cannabis use at certain establishments in the city and a contract with the Humboldt County Association of Government for the Eureka Police Department to provide “enhanced traffic control” along U.S. Highway 101’s “safety corridor” that runs between Eureka and Arcata.

We #BelieveChristine and All Survivors Rally in Arcata

by Kimberly Wear on September 27, 2018 at 4:22PM

Huffman, Other Dems Call For Postponement of Kavanaugh Nomination Process

by Kimberly Wear on September 27, 2018 at 10:49AM

The statement was signed by: Reps. Lois Frankel, Brenda Lawrence, Jackie Speier, Barbara Lee, Diana DeGette, Democratic Whip Steny H. Hoyer, Alma S. Adams, Karen Bass, Joyce Beatty, Earl Blumenauer, Lisa Blunt Rochester, Suzanne Bonamici, Madeleine Bordallo, Anthony Brown, Julia Brownley, Cheri Bustos, G. K. Butterfield, Joaquin Castro, Katherine Clark, Gerry Connolly, Elijah E. Cummings, Susan Davis, Rosa DeLauro, Val Demings, Debbie Dingell, John Garamendi, Raúl Grijalva, Michelle Lujan Grisham, Colleen Hanabusa, Pramila Jayapal, Robin Kelly, Ro Khanna, Raja Krishnamoorthi, Ann McLane Kuster, Al Lawson, Sheila Jackson Lee, Ted W. Lieu, Zoe Lofgren, Nita M. Lowey, Ben Ray Luján, Carolyn Maloney, Doris Matsui, Betty McCollum, James P. McGovern, Grace Meng, Gwen S. Moore, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Scott Peters, Chellie Pingree, David Price, Mike Quigley, Jamie Raskin, Jacky Rosen, Dutch Ruppersberger, Linda Sanchez, Jan Schakowsky, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Terri Sewell, Carol Shea-Porter, Adam Smith, Mark Takano, Dina Titus, Norma Torres and Nydia Velazquez. Read the full contents of the letter below:

35 Positions Eliminated at St. Joseph, Redwood Memorial Hospitals

by Kimberly Wear on September 13, 2018 at 7:32PM

The St. Joseph Health System merged with Providence Health and Services in 2016. Hill said the eliminated positions included “a mix of senior leadership, support staff and patient care positions.”

Warning: Back Away From the (Sports Harvested) Bi-Valves

by Kimberly Wear on September 13, 2018 at 2:53PM

Domoic acid poisoning can cause a number of uncomfortable symptoms in minor cases and severe illness or death in more serious ones, although no human poisonings are known to have occurred in California, the release states. Read the release from the California Department of Public Health:

NYT Story Examines Heroin's Impact on Local Tribes and its Link to an Ailing River

by Kimberly Wear on September 5, 2018 at 4:26PM

Indian Health Service, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, cites the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in reporting that Native Americans had a larger increase in overdose deaths from 1999-2015 — up more than 500 percent — than any other ethnic group. Back in March, the Yurok Tribe filed a federal lawsuit against 20 manufacturers and distributors of prescription opioids, alleging the companies are responsible for spreading a destructive trail of drug use on the reservation and across the country.