Fortuna Police Chief Kris Kitna will introduce his newest officer, Joshua Phinney, at the regular Fortuna City Council meeting at 6 p.m. today. The City Council will also discuss appointments to the Planning, Historical and Park and Recreation

ATHENS — We arrived in Athens on Nov. 29, a few days before the start of the Global Forum for Media Development and the start of what has been described in the local press as the worst street violence in Athens in decades.

Several motions to disclose private medical records for a witness in the case of Dennis and Chad Larsen — a father and son implicated in a failed murder-for-hire conspiracy — were heard by a Humboldt County Superior Court judge Wednesday.

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Witnesses in the David Barger murder trial will paint a picture of the darker side of Humboldt County’s commercial marijuana growing subculture, in which profit is sometimes valued over human life, Deputy District Attorney Max Cardoza argued Thursday in opening statements.

The Fortuna Police Department is investigating allegations that a Fortuna High School teacher had sex with one of her underage students. ”No arrest has been made,” Fortuna Police Chief Kris Kitna said Monday.

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Witnesses in the area of Riverwalk Drive near Fortuna’s River Lodge said they observed a woman’s bloated body in the Eel River on Tuesday afternoon.

After hearing from more than two dozen witnesses over the span of a month, a jury of seven women and five men will soon decide the fate of former Blue Lake Police Chief David Ray Gundersen.

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On the third, and final, day of testimony from witnesses for David Gundersen’s defense, an expert in law enforcement training discussed specifics surrounding two firearms he is being charged with illegally possessing.

Former Blue Lake Police Chief David Gundersen let one of his sons and the wife of a department officer fire the submachine gun he is charged with illegally possessing, one of his former officers testified Tuesday, describing the department as a

Former Blue Lake City Manager Duane Rigge testified Thursday he did not authorize the purchase, use or carrying of the submachine gun and pistol with an attached silencer that his former police chief, David Gundersen, is charged with illegally

In taped conversations with former Blue Lake Police Chief David Gundersen’s wife, district attorney investigators caution her about talking with her husband’s attorney and expressed concern that she may be lulled into being a witness friendly

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