Arcata News

Arcata's summer natural resource science camps involve a lot more than test tubes and textbooks.

Arcata photographer David Howell recently traveled to the 20th annual "Bend Summerfest" in Bend, Ore.

With construction in full swing, the former Westwood Market on Alliance Road in Arcata is getting closer to the beginning of its new life.

North Coast Repertory Theatre seems intent on recapitulating my life this season.

IN 2004, California gave counties permission to allow pharmacy sales of syringes without a prescription.

Humboldt County educators and philanthropists have teamed up with Food for People to double the amount of disadvantaged school children served by the program Backpacks for Kids.

Last week's Garberville Rotary guest speaker was Stephanie Lefevre, Coordinator for the HSU Educational Talent Search.

The Eureka City Council voted unanimously Tuesday, July 20 to introduce a medical marijuana ordinance governing both the personal cultivation of medical cannabis and distribution facilities located within city limits.

A Northern Redwood Federal Credit Union employee was arrested Tuesday for allegedly embezzling more than $100,000. Elliot Shane McCarl, 32, of McKinleyville was booked into the Humboldt County jail on suspicion of embezzlement and elder abuse after an audit and an investigation was completed this week, according to an Arcata Police Department press ...

" It appears that the person who owns a set of keys discovered last week on the Arcata Bottom may have been located.

Parents soon will be able to pull their children from about 1,000 California schools more easily, including nine local schools, but educators say that does not mean they are poorly performing campuses.

California lawmakers are mulling whether to extend or expand a state program allowing over-the-counter sales of syringes without a prescription to curb the spread of HIV, hepatitis and other diseases.

Those invested in the pot industry down south are bringing the conversation to Northern Humboldt this weekend, with the hopes of having an all-inclusive conversation.

Published: Thursday, July 22, 2010 at 4:03 a.m. Last Modified: Thursday, July 22, 2010 at 4:03 a.m. Six murals proposed for a Ukiah sporting goods store were deemed to be art rather than advertising by a majority of the Ukiah City Council on Wednesday night.

Artist of the Month for the Red Bluff Art Association is Judy A Walker, according to Kathy Brehm, past president.

A mountain lion was sighted this morning around 11:14 a.m. near the United Indian Health Service's Potawot Health Village in Arcata.

"Who is Salt?" The question is the tagline for Salt , an action thriller from Aussie director Phillip Noyce with Angelina Jolie as Evelyn Salt, a CIA agent accused of being a KGB sleeper sent to assassinate the President.

In Europe, the tradition is to build the cathedral on the highest part of town. Here in Humboldt County, that honor goes to our local jail.

Like a number of Humboldt music people, Ryan Carlisle relocated to Portland Ore.

Christopher J. Neary, legal counsel for the beleaguered North Coast Railroad Authority, sat before the agency's board of directors last week at their regular monthly meeting and said it was time, at long last, to get those ugly billboards torn down.