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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …