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Articles for Humboldt County

7.0 earthquake rattles Northern California, spurs anxiety before tsunami warning is canceled
2 weeks, 5 days ago

7.0 earthquake rattles Northern California, spurs anxiety before tsunami warning is canceled

LA Times  

A magnitude 7 earthquake about 30 miles off the Humboldt County shoreline prompted a highly unusual tsunami warning for a wide swath of the Northern California coast Thursday, spurring widespread evacuations before it was canceled an hour later. California Why a massive California tsunami alert was issued — then soon canceled Coastal areas in Northern California began evacuating residents after …

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Humboldt officials accuse San Francisco of busing the city’s homeless problems north
4 months ago

Humboldt officials accuse San Francisco of busing the city’s homeless problems north

LA Times  

Humboldt County leaders say they’re worried that San Francisco’s aggressive efforts to relocate homeless people to other cities will simply shift the problem to other jurisdictions. During their Tuesday meeting, Humboldt County supervisors debated sending a draft letter, addressed to Breed, questioning whether San Francisco was making sure the homeless people it’s busing out actually land housing and jobs. As …

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Grisly discovery in Humboldt County takes a turn: Suspected animal bones could be human
5 months, 1 week ago

Grisly discovery in Humboldt County takes a turn: Suspected animal bones could be human

LA Times  

Jan 2022 photo of a woman and her dog walking along the Eel River in Humboldt County. At first authorities thought the remains found near a Humboldt County river were just animal bones. The macabre discovery was made by a Redway resident who was swimming in the Eel River on July 6, when they saw what appeared to be animal …

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Column: What if Bruce’s Beach was just the start? Why more stolen land is about be returned
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Column: What if Bruce’s Beach was just the start? Why more stolen land is about be returned

LA Times  

Amparo Rodriguez, 68, makes her way to work at the Viceroy Hotel in Santa Monica. “The more that we normalize options and processes for folks to really have reparative justice, the more it becomes a mainstream thought.” And yet, I suspect this potential to normalize an economic reordering of society is one reason why there’s so much opposition to reparations …

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Will your home survive a major quake? Free cash from California can help
1 year, 6 months ago

Will your home survive a major quake? Free cash from California can help

LA Times  

Jacqui McIntosh of Rio Dell in Humboldt County inspects the damage to her home after a magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck in December 2022. With more than a million California houses in need of seismic retrofitting, the California Earthquake Authority and the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services launched a program 10 years ago to cover at least part of the cost …

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Her mother disappeared. Then her babysitter. A lawman fears she might be next
1 year, 9 months ago

Her mother disappeared. Then her babysitter. A lawman fears she might be next

LA Times  

In Indian Country, everybody seems to know somebody who’s gone missing or been murdered. :: Eleven years before Emmilee Risling was last seen, another Native woman disappeared : 32-year-old Sumi Juan, an artist known for her quilting and a mother of three daughters, including O’Rourke’s foster daughter, Charlene. “In a metaphorical sense, and actually running away.” Charlene pingponged back and …

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Historic California storm closes Interstate 5 at the Grapevine
1 year, 10 months ago

Historic California storm closes Interstate 5 at the Grapevine

LA Times  

A frigid winter storm barreled into California on Friday, bringing sea-level snow along the coast at Eureka and whiteout conditions in the Sierra as well as bursts of hail, snow and rain in Southern California that are expected to worsen considerably over the next two days. #CAwx pic.twitter.com/MAq7kGVpDF — NWS San Diego February 23, 2023 “What is really kind of …

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What offshore wind power could mean for California (when turbines eventually start spinning)
1 year, 11 months ago

What offshore wind power could mean for California (when turbines eventually start spinning)

LA Times  

A floating offshore wind farm in Scotland, operated by Equinor, an international energy company. According to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, the newly auctioned parcels have “the potential to produce over 4.6 gigawatts of offshore wind energy, enough to power over 1.5 million homes.” If you’re like me and Marty McFly, you’re probably wondering: What the hell is a …

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‘The War on Drugs Part II’: California taxes, rules are killing small legal weed farms
1 year, 11 months ago

‘The War on Drugs Part II’: California taxes, rules are killing small legal weed farms

LA Times  

When Johnny Casali was a teenager growing weed illegally in the mountains of Northern California, there was always the risk the government would ruin everything — that his plants would be discovered and ripped up, or that he would be discovered and locked up. Johnny Casali, second from left, and partner Rose Moberly, second from right, talk with inspectors from …

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‘An earthquake can drop in’: More than 1 million California homes need retrofittings
2 years ago

‘An earthquake can drop in’: More than 1 million California homes need retrofittings

LA Times  

Jacqui McIntosh peers in the window of her red-tagged, quake-damaged home in Rio Dell, Calif., this week. We set a path for to get the house retrofitted by the state but it was too late.” McIntosh said they also filed a claim with their insurance company but were notified it had been withdrawn because they don’t have earthquake insurance due …

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Tens of thousands without power after California earthquake
2 years ago

Tens of thousands without power after California earthquake

Associated Press  

RIO DELL, Calif. — Tens of thousands of homes and businesses along the Northern California coast remained without power Tuesday evening, nearly a day after a powerful earthquake jolted people awake and shook homes off foundations, injuring at least 12 and leaving many without water. Approximately 12 people were reported as suffering injuries, including a broken hip and head wound, …

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Northern California towns tally earthquake damage as power is restored to tens of thousands
2 years ago

Northern California towns tally earthquake damage as power is restored to tens of thousands

LA Times  

One day after a magnitude 6.4 earthquake rocked Humboldt County, power was restored to tens of thousands of residents as authorities continued to survey the damage in coastal Northern California. By Wednesday night, crews restored service to “essentially all” of the 71,000 customers who had lost electricity because of the quake, said Megan McFarland, spokesperson for Pacific Gas & Electric …

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This California town ran its Chinese residents out. Now the story is finally being told
2 years, 1 month ago

This California town ran its Chinese residents out. Now the story is finally being told

LA Times  

Beauty drew Brieanne Mirjah D’Souza to Eureka. On Feb. 5, 1885, the newspaper, which called the Chinese neighborhood a violent, drug-addled “leper’s colony,” wrote that it would probably be “goodbye to Chinatown” if an “unoffending white man” were killed there. “When I miss him, I come here.” :: The mural is along an alleyway that the city, at the urging …

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Inside California’s pot legalization failures: Corporate influence, ignored warnings
2 years, 3 months ago

Inside California’s pot legalization failures: Corporate influence, ignored warnings

LA Times  

Architects of the effort to legalize pot in California made big promises to voters. We cannot let that happen.” His blue ribbon commission’s report released months later suggested drafters of a legalization initiative consider limiting the number of licenses issued to any one owner “to prevent the growth of a large, corporate marijuana industry dominated by a small number of …

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The reality of legal weed in California: Huge illegal grows, violence, worker exploitation and deaths
2 years, 3 months ago

The reality of legal weed in California: Huge illegal grows, violence, worker exploitation and deaths

LA Times  

At sunset from atop Haystack Butte, the desert floor below shimmers with a thousand lights. The explosive growth has had grave, far-reaching consequences, according to a Times review of state, county and court records as well as interviews with scores of local residents, legal and illegal cannabis growers, laborers, law enforcement, market analysts, community activists and public officials: Law enforcement …

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