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Editor: Awhile back, I stuck a want-ad in the Tri-City Advertiser looking for someone to run for county supervisor from my district. I met a...

However, the supervisors – who voted unanimously, with 1st District Supervisor Rex Bohn absent, to ask staff to draft the measure– wanted modifications, including requiring four fifths vote to change it and a definition of parcels. During discussions, not all of the board members agreed with all prongs of the proposed measure and the approval was hardly enthusiastic.

The Humboldt County Board of Supervisors moved forward Oct. 24 with a plan to collect a combined $16.3 million in past-due cannabis excise tax bills...

State Farm and Allstate, California’s first and sixth largest insurers, paused issuing any new policies for homes and businesses this year, and five other of the state’s top 12 insurers began limiting or pausing new policies as well. Many Californians, including in Humboldt County, saw bills so exorbitant they canceled their policies.

Appointing a member of the Board of Supervisors to the Rural County of Representatives of California is normally uncontroversial, but Rex Bohn was nearly ousted in a motion he himself seconded after 3rd District Supervisor Mike Wilson brought the issue up, noting he saw a photo on social media of the firearm Bohn included in Humboldt County’s raffle basket.

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Reader reacts to letter on Holocaust comparison Regarding Eric Cortez’ letter about lessons from the Holocaust: Mr. Cortez may think that he is standing in support of Israel in light of the horrific attacks by Hamas, but all he is doing is feeding into the self-serving, right-wing line of garbage that regularly raises its ugly […]

The findings found weaknesses in controls over financial reporting, with one specific finding concluding that there was significant deficiency in internal controls over compliance, with county Auditor-Controller Cheryl Dillingham submitted an action plan to correct. The single audit of the $111.7 million in federal funds spent that fiscal year by the county found an inaccurate accounting report submitted to the federal government, which will not immediately come back to bite the county but could...

EUREKA — If the American West represents the “geography of hope,” as author Wallace Stegner wrote, then what better place than California’s far north to illustrate the eternal tension between

Ocean wind farms are essential to electrify California's grid with 100% clean energy. But they're a giant, costly experiment & no one knows how hundreds of towering turbines will transform the remote North Coast.