Changing LivesThrough Medicine
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It’s Flash Fiction Season 2026
Here’s the story in 99 words: NCJ’s 99-word Flash Fiction Contest is on. Send up to three entries in the body of an email (no attachments or links) to fiction@northcoastjournal.com with your name and contact…
Skeleton Showdown: Who’s Got the Best Bones on Main Street?
Love them, hate them or think they’re just dying to get noticed — Ferndale’s skeletons are taking over Main Street! Now it’s time for the community to settle the debate the fun way. We’re inviting…
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Gold in the Cracks
Conrad Calimpong draws a thumb along the gold seam running through his chestnut brown “Pillow Pot Vase” to where it meets three other metallic streaks, fusing a mottled river rock like a jewel or a…
Changing LivesThrough Medicine
Terre Donaldson has been a nurse anesthetist in a wide range of medical fields. After retirement, she began volunteering for California CareForce’s free health clinics, drawn to lending her skills by the astounding need for…
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Music Tonight: Thursday, Oct. 8
Fine Folk is an ensemble of young musicians from Long Beach who play a mix of indiebluegrass, country and folk songs (duh). Led by main singer and guitarist Eva Loona Smith, this mostly acoustic multi-instrumental…
‘Digger’ Devastates
DIGGER. The truth is that I didn’t think I would enjoy Digger. Even more than that, I had assumed that it would disappoint me: a stickler for the psychological battery that characterizes the realist landscapes…
Redwood Coast Music Festival 2026
The 34th Redwood Coast Music Festival last weekend in Eureka attracted another huge crowd of attendees who faced the pleasant challenge of picking and choosing among 130 sets by amazing talent over four days at…
A Nightmare on Main Street
If you ever find yourself wondering what being haunted or possessed feels like, think about a nightmare. Then wake up and try to move on. Think about a beautiful dream. Then wake up and once…
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Thales’ Eclipse and the Saros Cycle
“… just as the battle was growing warm, day was on a sudden changed into night. This event had been foretold by Thales, the Milesian, who forewarned the Ionians of it, fixing for it the…
Humboldt County Fair Faces Another Tough Year
While the books for the 2026 Humboldt County Fair are not yet closed, initial reports paint a bleak picture. Total paid attendance was down by about 1,000 tickets, and total admission revenue was down by…
Xine:wh-ding
Hoopa Valley Tribe elder Verdena Leona Chase Parker was raised speaking Na:tinixwe Mixine:whe’ (Na-teh-nah-hwah Meh-hah-neh-hweh), the language of the Hupa people since time immemorial. Her fluency was a tribute to brave women in her family,…
‘Ski Mask Rapist’ Richard Stobaugh Dies
Editor’s note: Be advised, this story covers violent sexual assaults and may be disturbing to readers. A sexually violent predator in the process of appealing a Humboldt County Superior Court judge’s decision last year to reverse…
Newsom Signs New Gun Control Laws, Including One Requiring Owners to Take a 4-Hour Class
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Have a gun? You’re going to need to take another safety class after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a package of bills Saturday that are a boon to gun…
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Aminah Herrman’s Cold Wax Paintings Shimmer and Shine
“When I’m painting, I’m in a state of discovery, and it’s always an adventure,” says Eureka abstract artist Aminah Herrman, who creates her artwork using cold wax and oil. “I’m constantly experimenting.” Cold wax is…
Arts Alive
Enjoy a lively evening in Downtown & Old Town Eureka as galleries, museums, theaters, bars and restaurants stay open late. Explore art, catch live performances, and soak in the vibrant energy of our creative community.…
Predators and Survival
PRIMETIME.In the early 21st century, there was a weird man who created a weird show. He was/is Chris Hansen, and the show was To Catch a Predator, an ethically dubious hidden-camera entrapment program ostensibly designed…
Mussel Super Glue
Howdy. I’m that naked guy you’ve probably seen beachcombing. You can be sure it’s me by my potbelly, which makes it look like I’ve swallowed a basketball. Because I carry my keys and phone in…
Life Goes On …
Life goes on.We move slower nowBut we are moving.Things are hardWe try to help.Our nation beckonsWe work the polls.The garden growsWe prepare for winter.We have familyAnd friendsWe support each other.We move slower nowBut we keep…
Correction
An error in “A Renaissance Baker” (Sept. 24, 2026), should have indicated Tony Cogliati’s cookies are available for purchase at Tey-Wo-Lew in the Trinidad Harbor Interpretive Center. The Journal regrets the error. Write an Election…
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The Good Ones
When Assistant Editor Kimberly Wear reported on the death of convicted violent sexual predator Richard…
Looking for an Explanation
Editor: I am devastated by the recent logging next to Murray Road between McKinleyville and…
Ghosted
Editor: I enjoyed the Journal’s Sept. 24 cover story on “Local Lit.” Humboldt County is…
Fortuna Voters Measure D Wake-up Call
Editor: Fortuna has a critical road choice to make. It can go forward, or it…
Thank You
Editor: What a treat to see the stack of “Local Lit” books (Sept. 24, 2026)…
‘Want to Join Me?’
Tired of Big Brother and the police state? I am putting small signs over my…
Music Tonight: Wednesday, Sept. 30
Two midweek shows in Arcata to report on then I’m done until the next deadline. First up at 7 p.m. at the Outer Space, you will find Los Angeles shoegaze and pop act Young Lovers…
Music Tonight: Monday, Sept. 28
Savage Henry Comedy Club is hosting a loud one tonight at 7:30 p.m. Triangle Fire from Athens, Georgia, joins Grass Valley’s Arüspex and our very own Brain Dead Rejects — who just keep getting better…
Music Tonight: Sunday, Sept. 27
Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka is offering the sounds of its mighty Kegg organ to the public once again, with a performance at 4 p.m. by virtuosic organist Dave Schofield. The event is free, but…
Music Tonight: Saturday, Sept. 26
Eraser is a band from Philadelphia whose sound slaps with a live wire urgency that rippled through and animated more than a few fantastic lurching grotesques from the past, such as DNA and Deerhoof. They’re…
Music Tonight: Friday, Sept. 25
The Shanty is the place for all things hard rock, punk and metal drenched in salty, upper 707 flavor. War Möth, Northern Blight and Generational Trauma are the instigator/alley-gators in the Eurekan asphalt swamp of…
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