Daniel Mintz

FICKLE HILL – A Fickle Hill Road property owner has gained a county permit for holding wedding events with a caveat – that noise monitoring devices will be installed if there are complaints. The event-hosting location, 2243 Fickle Hill Road, is about 800 feet northeast of the Wagon Jack Lane intersection. It will be a venue for small-scale indoor “elopement” […]

HUMBOLDT – 2024 is the year that power bills jumped by 13 percent and with the increase leaning heavily on Humboldt County families, the Board of Supervisors hosted a “ratepayers assistance presentation.” The Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) says wildfire risk reduction and transmission line undergrounding are primary reasons for raising its rates. Other reasons include covering the cost […]

HUMBOLDT – The environmental review process for the Great Redwood Trail has taken its first steps with a public comment scoping session. Held May 14, the online event fielded a first volley of public comments on the trail project’s potential impacts and what should be done to address them. The comments will shape a draft version of a Programmatic Environmental […]

McKINLEYVILLE – The Life Plan Humboldt senior care/affordable housing project is getting support from the county in the form a $2 million Headwaters Revolving Loan Fund loan. A staff report written for the June 4 Board of Supervisors meeting describes the project as bringing a “mixed income retirement community development” to McKinleyville’s planned town center area, on Hiller Road. The […]

HUMBOLDT – Humboldt County’s appeal to film producers has translated into millions of dollars of revenue and the Humboldt-Del Norte Film Commission wants to make the county even more film-friendly. Cassandra Hesseltine leads the commission and gave an annual update on the county’s film production activities at the Board of Supervisors’ June 11 meeting. The last year included local filming […]

HUMBOLDT – The West Coast’s first offshore wind energy port is planned for Humboldt Bay and the Harbor District has updated the community on what to expect. Rob Holmlund, the district’s director of development, explained what the project is and what it will look like from various locations in a video posted online last week. The bayfront project site is […]

ARCATA – In the final phase of dissolution of its redevelopment agency, the City of Arcata has forged a property tax agreement with the county on properties that remain on the city’s redevelopment agenda. Property tax “compensation agreements” for two properties – the Happy Valley business park and the Little Lakes tract off South G Street – were approved by […]

HUMBOLDT BAY – Billboards along the shoreline of Humboldt Bay are controversial and the county’s Harbor District has held off on permitting the replacement of one that blew down last winter. Owned by OutFront Media, which operates billboards nationwide, the damaged billboard is off Highway 101 south immediately adjacent to the Indianola Cutoff. The billboard repair requires permits from a […]

A draft version of Humboldt County's plan to comply with greenhouse gas emission reduction mandates is nearing environmental review and getting initial rounds of public feedback.

Humboldt County's latest financial audit report shows improvements and county officials are describing the change as highly important.