Fortuna Fire News Today

A fiery single-vehicle crash on northbound 101 near the Fernbridge exit Sunday killed at one person and injured another.

Foundations give out fire relief grants The Humboldt Area Foundation + Wild Rivers Community Foundation distributed 12 grants totaling more than $120,00 to organizations and agencies supplying relief to residents impacted by the wildfires burning across Del Norte, Humboldt, and Trinity counties in California, and Curry County in southern Oregon. The latest grant will help […]

Our dad, George Niles, age 84, passed away in a tragic accident on the evening of June 20, 2022. We are all very saddened and hope to share a bit about our dad.

It is with deep sadness that we share the loss of our beautiful and amazing mother, Donna Elaine Feddersen. She passed away at home on...

OBITUARY: Erla Crabtree Jadro, 1929-2021 Erla Crabtree Jadro was born May 10, 1929 in Hydesville and passed February 1, 2021 at her home in Fortuna. She was a fourth-generation Humboldt County resident; Erla’s great grandparents, Alonzo and Mary Jane Crabtree, traveled by ox team across the plains in 1848, first settling in Lake County and then moving to the Yager Valley in 1910. She grew up on the Crabtree Ranch and attended school in the one-room Redwood House School. Kids in the Crabtree f...