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In a series of press releases over the past week, Congressman Jared Huffman expressed support for a variety of different initiatives in the midst of new congressional session. On Tuesday, Huffman joined Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) in introducing a bil...

Arcata has completed their incredible regular season turnaround after beating McKinleyville 71-57 on Thursday to clinch the Big 5 regular season title. It was the Tigers second win over the Panthers in league play, and was the rubber game that decided bra...

"There's a rumor going around that we've had more earthquakes since mid-December than we've had for a number of years. I keep tabs on earthquake activity and this rumor like many has no basis in fact."...

Find out what is happening at local government meetings this week....

"There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about" — Margaret J. Wheatley As we continue to see higher patient volumes at our hospitals in Humboldt County, we at Providence, along with our patients, are r...

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In a must-win game, the Cal Poly Humboldt women's basketball team overcame a 12-point halftime deficit to beat San Francisco State 76-70 on Thursday. The win snaps a five-game losing streak for the 'Jacks as they improve to 7-10 and are now in a t...

A smattering of light showers totaling a tenth of an inch should also dust the county over the weekend, meaning the rain will not be significant, especially compared to the early January winter storms that put the county above the average total for the wa...

Humboldt only had 8 active players and were missing two starters as they faced an SF State squad that was on a four game winning streak and had nearly completed a 20-point second half comeback in the two teams' first matchup. The Lumberjacks made sure...

Three Cal State campuses CSU Dominguez Hills, Cal Poly Humboldt, and San Francisco State can move ahead with badly needed student housing. The Cal State Board of Trustees voted Wednesday to approve plans for all three projects....

Fishermen are bringing in some tasty crabs this season....

Constantine Canoun died Aug. 31, 2022, eight days after ingesting the cleaning fluid....

A massive cloud shaped like a flying saucer covered the top of California's Mount Shasta on Jan. 22, attracting the attention of many, especially shutterbugs who posted images that wowed the social media world....

An apparent plea deal has been negotiated with one of the four Sacramento-area defendants in the Jan. 6 Capitol Riot and may be finalized in court in Washington, D.C., next month....

Understanding how many miles you'll earn, and how much these miles are worth, can be anything but simple....

Video released Friday morning by a San Francisco court shows the man alleged to have attacked former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband Paul with a hammer, providing a chilling new look at the savage, politically-driven assault that shook the nation...

According to a report from NBC Bay Area, the alleged Half Moon Bay killer was enraged by a $100 bill from his boss following a workplace accident....

Seven years after the Safe and Responsible Drivers Act gave undocumented residents a license to drive, the state is ready to expand its impact, but the law still has detractors....

Has California reached an upper limit on what it can do to regulate guns? Following a pattern as old as gun control itself, state lawmakers are responding to the back-to-back mass shootings that killed 18 people this week with more legislation: Democratic...

Two days after the alleged killer's arrest, CHP commander Julie Harding was herself found fatally shot....

Just weeks after the University of California and academic workers heralded historic wage gains in new labor contracts, the question of how to pay for them is roiling campuses as they scramble to identify money, consider cutbacks in graduate student admis...

California's Shasta County -- where hard-line conservatives hold a 4-1 majority on the county board of supervisors following the results of the November 2022 elections -- terminated its contract with Dominion Voting Systems Tuesday evening. The justif...

The federal government will allow Medicaid dollars to treat some people in prisons, jails or juvenile detention centers for the first time ever, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced Thursday....

The reality of free energy spinning into our homes and businesses from windmills far offshore and out of sight may be much more expensive than we can possibly imagine. Onshore energy is known to be a very expensive renewable energy. Offshore wind power ev...

In Kelly Walsh's My Word in the Times-Standard on Jan. 12, 2023, he seems to imply that the Members Voice Slate, made up of Rees Hughes, James Kloor, and Maricela Aceves Wexler, might be running for the three seats on the Coast Central Credit Union...

If it gives you a headache or some other physical reaction, tell her, and ask her to spray less or consider wearing something different....

"Powerful Fragility" reflects people's relationship to the environment and how they explore the intersection of art, biology and spirituality....

"I will be performing a very special composer for me, Sofia Gubaidulina," Mineva said. "Her piano sonata expresses her deep faith, and she grapples with the idea of the ultimate fight between darkness and light....

Felien uses impasto brushwork to abstract iconic concepts of reality....

After a tumultuous road trip last week, the College of the Redwoods men's basketball team came back home to face a Siskiyous team that was the only other school in the Golden Valley Conference with a winning record. And despite an uncharacteristically...

College of the Redwoods announced that former Cal Poly Humboldt assistant Paul Castillo will take over as head coach of the women's volleyball team next season. Castillo will take over for Petra Lorenzi, who made the decision to step away and helped f...

We believe that everyone has the right to quality higher education, regardless of their socioeconomic circumstances — something that is emphasized in our mission. Since 2016, we have partnered with the Pelican Bay State Prison administration and edu...

Daniella Moore, who is accused of torturing and killing 19-year-old Hannah Hayhurst on July 4, 2019, is seeing a trial after a third psychologist's report deemed her mentally competent, meaning two out of three psychologists considered her mentally eq...

Boston medical researchers are hoping to get ahead of Alzheimer's by testing a possible treatment in patients who don't have symptoms but may be at risk for the progressive disease....

Chunli Zhao reportedly affirms suspected motives of longtime bullying and workplace strife in a jailhouse interview; the state announces investigations into work conditions at farms where shootings occurred....

"I think there is a way through this. We just have to be willing to put on our creative hats, and also put some of our very firm stances, maybe put those aside for a moment so that we can really listen to one another," HCOE Superintendent Michael ...

"It's certainly something that's been a cloud over us for the past four and a half years," said a Bay Area ferry spokesperson...

Name: David Eberhardt Service branch: Air Force The January 2023 Humboldt Hero is Staff Sgt. David Eberhardt. Eberhardt graduated from Eureka High School in June 1968, as the Vietnam War and the draft were front-page news. Four of his close high school fr...

After three years of severe drought, water supplies are boosted and reservoirs are filling....

The four-day week isn't feasible for most schools in the state. California's Education Code requires schools to hold classes five days a week or have their funding reduced....

Retirement can be a jarring transition, especially if you haven't set up ways to replace the structure, sense of purpose and socializing opportunities that work can bring....

AB 2098 was among the more controversial bills related to the COVID-19 pandemic, empowering California licensing authorities to punish doctors who deviate from public health messaging about the virus....

"OptumServe's COVID-19 testing sites in McKinleyville, Trinidad and Arcata officially closed at the end of last week," a release from the county stated....

For decades, hexavalent chromium has provided the silvery showroom finish to countless consumer products, from automobile bumpers and grilles to kitchen faucets and light fixtures. It has also served as an indispensable rust-resistant coating for aviation...

Rep. Adam B. Schiff, a decades-long fixture in San Fernando Valley politics who rose to national prominence as a top Democratic foe to then-President Donald Trump, is joining a contest for U.S. Senate that is quickly shaping up to be highly competitive, h...

The department told CalMatters it can't say how many cases it chose not to investigate during the past 18 months under a new state law, which aimed to ensure state oversight of police shootings....

Cal State leaders revealed a new plan that will take money from campuses missing enrollment targets and give it to schools exceeding their targets....

The vice president's visit coincided with a vigil outside the site of the massacre, Star Ballroom Dance Studio -- the fourth vigil in three days in the shaken city....

The sleek and tenacious Sierra Nevada red fox -- once thought to have disappeared from the mountain range that bears its name -- has been detected near the eastern boundary of Sequoia and Kings Canyon national parks....

Assembly Bill 92 would prohibit the sale of bullet-proof material to members of the public unless they are in certain professions such as law enforcement....