Kimberly Wear

6 days ago | northcoastjournal.com | Kimberly Wear

At approximately 7:17 a.m. on Thursday, May 8, 2025, the Rio Dell Police Department and Rio Dell Fire Department responded to a report of a residential structure fire on the 1000 block of Riverside Drive. Fire crews from the Rio Dell Fire Department, with critical assistance from the Fortuna Fire Department, were able to contain and extinguish the blaze before it spread to neighboring homes, preventing more extensive damage.

1 week ago | northcoastjournal.com | Kimberly Wear

Eight years after the North Coast's recreational abalone fishery was shut down due to an unprecedented decline in the population amid a greater collapse of the delicate ecosystem on which the prized mollusks depend, the state Fish and Game Commission is beginning the process to extend the closure another decade.

1 week ago | northcoastjournal.com | Kimberly Wear

The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office announced today that human remains found decades ago have been identified as those of a Trinity County woman reported missing in 1987. According to a press release, Hyampom School teacher Kay Josephine Medin was reported missing by her husband Nickolas Medin on Aug. 3, 1987, after he said he returned home from a business trip to find her gone.

2 weeks ago | northcoastjournal.com | Thadeus Greenson |Jennifer Fumiko Cahill |Kimberly Wear

In the runup to the November election, eggs took on an almost mythical status, their price tags acting as both a kind of poster for the Trump campaign and a symbol for Democrats' perceived inability to speak directly to inflation, the issue we were told most concerned voters. In the election's final days, the average retail price of a dozen eggs was $3.65, according to the Federal Bank of St. Louis.

2 weeks ago | northcoastjournal.com | Kimberly Wear

Editor's note: Be advised, this story covers violent sexual assaults and may be disturbing to readers. During a standing-room-only town hall at the Manila Community Resource Center on Monday, residents voiced fears and frustrations about a proposal to house a man legally deemed a sexually violent predator at a single-family residence in the small town while he's on conditional release from a state hospital.