Arcata News

Recently filed campaign finance forms show 1st District supervisor candidate Rex Bohn surpassing the candidates of every district by tens of thousands of dollars.

Editor's note: This is the first in a two-part series about the closure of the Arcata Community Recycling Center.

Lucindo and Maria Fagundes of Arcata celebrated their 50th anniversary Saturday at Francis Ford Coppola Winery.

With legal issues unresolved and federal threats still looming, the county's moratorium on medical marijuana dispensary applications has been extended by 10-and-a-half months.

A 10-year-old Missouri girl may be the youngest in history to discover a new molecule after a brief introduction on molecular formation by her middle school science teacher.

A The Arcata Eye presents the 15th Annual Arcata Eye Ball , Saturday, Feb. 18 at 7 p.m. at the Arcata Theatre Lounge, 1036 G St.

The Humboldt County Coroner's Office has identified skeletal remains found off Fickle Hill Road outside Arcata in December as those of Peter John Cain, a 23-year-old who had been reported missing out of Altoona, Pa., in April.

The City of Arcata hosts a Public Visioning Workshop to help update its Redwood Park Master Plan this Thursday, Feb.

With Halloween and New Year's Eve come and gone, Will and Bill scheme ways to make the Arcata Plaza safe for statues.

"Psst," said Marty L'Herault, waving a hand from inside the velvety dark curve of his horse-drawn buggy parked on the side of F Street.

Note: Humboldt Mediation Services has released its compilation of ideas aired at last week's Plaza scoping session on how to abate excessive behavior on Halloween and New Year's Eve.

The North Coast Resource Center is approaching its first month of being closed. We remain hopeful that the closure is temporary and will attempt to keep you informed of our progress.

Based on the Book Film Series presents "I Know Where I'm Going," , 6:30 p.m., main branch of the Humboldt County Library, 1313 Third St., Eureka, free admission, hosted by Michael Logan.

California Department of Fish and Game researchers are trying to track the infestation of an exotic lice that is causing hair loss and possibly contributing to the death of black-tailed deer fawns.

Along one of the wildest stretches of the Smith River in Del Norte County is a square-quarter-mile gem of private land that is undergoing an ecological "facelift" after a half-century of logging eliminated its old-growth forest and straightened the meander of a year-round creek.

According to the Humboldt County Coroner's Office, Juan Eparaza Ruiz, 54, of McKinleyville died Thursday after being crushed between two felled logs.

Kenneth Newell was the type of person who kept tabs on others and always asked people how they were doing, even if he'd just met them.

On 01-26-2012 at about 0930 hours the Humboldt County Drug Task Force, received a telephone call from a Detective, who works for the Reno Police Department in Nevada.

Doing the newspaper for the past 15 years has taught me a lot about risk, effort and reward, not to mention abysmal failure.

After nearly four months on unexplained - and fully paid - administrative leave, Humboldt County Airport Manager Jacquelyn Hulsey will resume her job duties Monday morning.