Kimberly Wear

The state has seen a spate of mushroom poisonings in the last several months, including one in Humboldt County, amid what the California Department of Public Health describes as a “superbloom” of the highly toxic death cap and western destroying angel varieties. “Environmental factors including early fall rains followed by a warm, wet winter have […]

There is still “a sliver of hope” this year will be the one for the first condor chick in more than a century to hatch on the North Coast. The breeding pair A0 and A1 have recently been seen together away from their nesting site during a time when a hatchling would still need constant […]

Another Global Sumud Flotilla — the largest to date — is setting out across the Mediterranean Sea in a multinational civilian effort to open a humanitarian aid corridor to the war-torn Gaza Strip. Longtime Eureka resident Sacha Marini is among the hundreds of volunteers taking part, traveling aboard one of dozens of vessels in the […]

Tule and Ishŭng are taking their relationship to a new level — proximity wise. As of early last month, the two are now sharing habitat space without any barriers following a slow introduction process in which the bears got to “set the pace.” According to Sequoia Park Zoo animal curator Amanda Auston, things are going […]

It was around 6 p.m. on May 4 when Registrar of Voters Juan Pablo Cervantes received the call. Staff members preparing drop boxes to begin accepting ballots the next day for the June primary had just found nearly 600 envelopes containing votes cast in the November special election still inside one that had been posted […]

When the Humboldt County Department of Agriculture put out a call for assistance to help recover grape vines potentially harboring an invasive insect never before detected in the area, the community responded. The result of a Fresno-based nursery breaching protocol meant to prevent the pest’s expansion, a total of 60 plants with glassy-winged sharpshooters possibly […]

The Humboldt County Department of Health and Human Services reports a local case of pertussis, more commonly known as whooping cough, has been confirmed, and is warning people may have been exposed to the illness at four locations this month. Those locations are: Public health officials are monitoring what “may be the beginning of a […]

After three days of excavating sections of the Miranda’s Rescue property, the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office on Friday reported finding the intact remains of more than 100 dogs at two dig sites during a multi-agency animal cruelty and fraud investigation. “The 117 intact dogs were in various stages of decomposition. Seventy of the dogs were […]

Humboldt County Sheriff William Honsal on Monday asked for the public’s patience and assistance as a multi-agency investigation continues into allegations Miranda’s Rescue accepted money to care for animals that were instead put down. This is, he emphasized during a nearly one-hour press conference, a case involving multiple jurisdictions and “many moving parts,” noting “the […]

County environmental health officials are urging residents to be on the lookout for toxic algae in rivers and other fresh water areas following the recent death of a dog shortly after the animal went swimming “in a slow, stagnant pool of water off the Eel River near Scotia.” As the Department of Health and Human […]