St. Joseph, AG Agree to Proposed Stipulation in Abortion Case

By Thadeus Greenson on October 29, 2024 at 3:06PM

agrees that, within seven days of the issuance of this order, the Providence Hospital shall provide written notice of this order, and all obligations under it, to all of Providence’ Hospital’s medical staff and each and every physician with privileges at Providence Hospital,” the proposed court order states, adding that, if signed by a judge, it would be enforceable by the court. The underlying lawsuit filed Sept. 30 alleges that St. Joseph Hospital violated state law requiring hospital emergency rooms to provide care necessary to prevent not only maternal death but “serious injury or illness” when it reportedly denied care to Anna Nusslock in February.

Your Familiar Polling Place May Have Closed but You Have Many Voting Options

By Thadeus Greenson on October 21, 2024 at 4:29PM

And many of those aren’t just open on Election Day. Beginning Oct. 7 and running through Election Day, voters can drop off or cast their ballot at the Humboldt County Elections Office (2426 Sixth St. in Eureka).

Salmon Spotted in Klamath Basin for First Time in More Than a Century

By Thadeus Greenson on October 18, 2024 at 2:02PM

On October 16, a fall-run Chinook salmon was identified by ODFW’s fish biologists in a tributary to the Klamath River above the former J.C. Boyle Dam, becoming the first anadromous fish to return to the Klamath Basin in Oregon since 1912 when the first of four hydroelectric dams was constructed, blocking migration. The salmon and others likely traveled about 230 miles from the Pacific ocean to reach the tributary only months after four Klamath River dams were removed to ensure fish passage from California to Oregon.

RCEA Board to Again Discuss Nuclear Option

By Thadeus Greenson on October 15, 2024 at 4:33PM

Perhaps symbolically underscoring the notion that nuclear half-lives are always longer than they seem, the Redwood Coast Energy Authority Board of Directors will once again discuss whether the agency should accept an offer of free nuclear power at its meeting later this month. Last month, the board, acting with some members absent, failed to reach a decision on whether to accept the allotment of free nuclear energy from the Diablo Canyon Power Plant in San Luis Obispo.

Cosmic Viewing: Rare Comet is Making an Appearance

By Kimberly Wear on October 14, 2024 at 1:16PM

unable to withstand the intense heat of our parent star, but it survived more or less intact,” a NASA article states. “Comets are more fragile than people may realize, thanks to the effects of passing close to the sun and their internal water ice and volatiles such as carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide,” NASA astronomer Bill Cooke, who leads the Meteoroid Environment Office at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, says in the article.

Missing 4-Year-Old Girl Found Safe

By Kimberly Wear on October 14, 2024 at 11:01AM

Noni the Black Bear, Known Fondly as 'Twinkle Toes,' Dies

By Kimberly Wear on October 10, 2024 at 12:41PM

Sheriff's Office Asks Public's Help in Locating Missing 4 Year Old

By Kimberly Wear on October 10, 2024 at 11:49AM

CPH to Host Community Forum on Presidential Search

By Thadeus Greenson on October 8, 2024 at 12:14PM

Appointed to the position in the summer of 2019 to succeed Lisa Rossbacher, Jackson came to Humboldt by way of Black Hills State University in South Dakota, where he’d served as president for about five years, become Humboldt’s eighth — and first Black — president. His tenure leading Humboldt has been extraordinary.

Noni ‘Not Out of the Woods’ After Emergency Surgery

By Kimberly Wear on October 8, 2024 at 9:58AM

Tule was just a few weeks old, weighing a mere 3.7 pounds, when he was found in April of 2022 on Tule River Nation Reservation in Tulare County and was transferred to the Lake Tahoe Wildlife Center after a several-days-long attempt to find and reunite the cub with his mother was unsuccessful. A month later, Noni — a little larger at 6.5 pounds — was also discovered as an orphan in the Oak Run area of Shasta County, about 20 miles east of Redding, and joined Tule at the rescue facility, where they would spend the next year together being nursed back to health.