Fortuna High News Today

This week we've got a feel-good story about how a groundbreaking Fortuna woman's life was changed by music and the legacy she left to Fortuna...

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Cleone Rae (Conner) Monson.

The Fortuna Garden Club is offering two $1,000 scholarships to seniors in the Fortuna Union High School District, which includes Fortuna High, East High, Independent Study and Academy of the Redwoods.

“‘Field Trip’ is an immersive, illustrative and engaging experience around our beautiful, diverse and interesting county,” Halstead said.

Curtis Lane Lindley -- born on May 2, 1943 to Lynn Lindley and Rose Denzer in Willits. Passed away on December 21, 2023 surrounded by family and close family friend Kevin Horn.

In 1966 I was a junior at Fortuna High School. At night, I would often sit in my parents’ car in the cold garage and listen to the music played on the San Francisco radio station KFRC. Some of the music was bland and sentimental. But some of the music was pure dynamite — blazing guitars, poundi

Armistice Day was marked across the county in various ways in 1923.

The Fortuna Union High School Music Program is thrilled to announce a generous donation of $1.2 million from the Alice Gunnerson Trust. This monumental contribution, aimed at securing the future of music education at Fortuna Union High School, will establish a fund to support the program in perpet

The Oct. 24, 1923 Humboldt Standard let everyone know that celebrity orangutan Joe Martin — who had appeared many silent movie films and shorts — was coming to Eureka over the weekend with the Al G. Barnes wild animal circus

A giant airship flew up the coast of California in October 1923, including passing over Humboldt County.