A woman who may have jumped from the Samoa Bridge was rescued on Sunday, thanks to the efforts of several local law enforcement officers and one Eureka city councilman in a kayak.

So far, it has been a rough holiday season for John Mathson. In mid-October, Evergreen Pulp mill announced it would be closing, at least temporarily, its Samoa mill, where Mathson had worked for more than 39 years.

The president and CEO of Evergreen Pulp Inc. said Wednesday that the company intends to reopen the Samoa mill, but market conditions and litigation are slowing arrangements.

An Arcata man found at least 20 syringes washed up on a Samoa Beach, and public health officials have decided to comb the area to find out if there are more.

Canada geese have been flocking in after the city of Arcata dug shallow ponds off Samoa Boulevard near the California Highway Patrol station. Hundreds of geese fly in casually in the morning to graze and to bathe in the ponds, which should

The regularly scheduled meeting for Citizens for Port and Rail Development, slated for tomorrow at the Samoa Cookhouse, has been canceled. But the organization’s January meeting will go ahead as planned, also at the Samoa Cookhouse, organizer Kay

Paul Alan Jasnosz, a 42-year-old Samoa man facing charges stemming from the alleged continual rape and physical abuse of his family over several years, pleaded not guilty on all counts in a Humboldt County courtroom Monday.

The Humboldt Bay Municipal Water District is forming a plan in case the Evergreen Pulp mill defaults on its next payment — and it’s also considering ways to cope with a worst-case permanent closure of the Samoa facility.

A Humboldt County Superior Court judge ruled Monday that there is sufficient evidence to try a 42-year-old Samoa man with 61 counts, stemming from the alleged continuous rape and physical abuse of his wife and two stepdaughters.

A final business plan for turning the Redwood Dock in Samoa into a marine terminal is now available for review. The plan can be viewed at the Humboldt Bay Harbor, Recreation and Conservation District’s Web site, www.

A Samoa man facing 62 sex crime charges, which he is accused of committing against his two stepdaughters over nearly two decades, appeared in court for a preliminary hearing Friday.

Jasmine Schumaker started tearing up almost immediately after stepping into an upstairs bedroom inside the U.S. Coast Guard’s Humboldt Bay Station on the Samoa peninsula.

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The city of Arcata’s Baylands project is under way adjacent to the California Highway Patrol office, south of Samoa Boulevard.

The Chinese company that bought the Samoa pulp mill in 2005 has sold Evergreen Pulp, according to a Hong Kong Stock Exchange filing, but the CEO of Evergreen insists it is a refinancing move that will leave the plant in its hands.

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The second fire in as many days at the Fairhaven Power Co. burned 4 acres within the containment lines, Samoa Peninsula Fire Protection Chief Kevin Pope said.

A fire that started near the Fairhaven power plant Thursday reared up again and spread throughout the dunes Friday, sending flames 10 to 20 feet in the air.

The Evergreen Pulp mill in Samoa will shut down until markets rebound, the company announced Wednesday. The plant warned last week that it might close temporarily when it announced it would cut up to 15 percent of its union and salaried

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Samoa-based Evergreen Pulp announced on Wednesday that it is temporarily shutting down its mill at the beginning of next week due to overall weak demand in the global pulp market.

The Evergreen Pulp mill will pay $463,000 to settle state water quality regulators’ complaints over its discharge into the Pacific Ocean. The mill discharges millions of gallons of wastewater daily into the ocean about 11/2 miles off the Samoa

Authorities arrested a Eureka man Wednesday morning while he was allegedly in the process of breaking into a parked car in Samoa, the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office reported.

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A power line went down yesterday at around 11:54 a.m., causing 104 customers in the Samoa and Eureka areas to lose power.

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A Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office deputy arrested a man while he allegedly stole items from a parked car off New Navy Road in Samoa.

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A Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office deputy arrested a man while he stole items from a parked car off New Navy Road in Samoa.

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Multiple agencies responded to a fire in Samoa at the end of Vance Ave. that burned approximately a quarter-acre of land and extensively damaged a historic building.