KMUD News

This episode includes stories on last night's fire that prompted evacuations in Blocksburg, Humboldt County freezing data center applications, and this week’s Sports Report. 

In this week's sports report, Ray Hamill brings us details of all of this week's big local sports stories, including all the latest high school football news and why it was a big week for the Ferndale Wildcats, some local soccer, volleyball and golf.

Residents in the Southern Humboldt Community Healthcare District will be voting on Measure K during next month's election. The proposed $25 million bond measure would help fund a new hospital, and would come from increased property taxes over a 30 year term. KMUD News spoke with CEO Matt Rees, a district employee, and a community member involved with the Measure K effort to learn more. 

This episode includes an in depth primer on Measure K and its potential impacts for Southern Humboldt residents, along with local and state updates

The Mendocino Sheriff’s Office asked County Supervisors to approve a grant from the Northern California Coalition to Safeguard Communities (NCCSC). But questions remain over the grant's intention and required reporting of publicly redacted information on law enforcement operations to the son of a billionaire. 

After lengthy discussion, Mendocino’s Supervisors extended a 45 day ban on data center development to a full two years

The work that went into Fortuna's mobile home park rent control ordinance has been honored by the tenants who urged its drafting and approval. Daniel Mintz reports. 

This episode includes stories on a data center moratorium and NCCSC grant approval for the Sheriff’s Office in Mendocino County, and on a rent control ordinance in Fortuna

This episode includes stories on the cutting down of the Grandmother Tree, a centuries-old cottonwood on the Arizona border that activists spent weeks trying to save from border wall construction, and Grounded AI, an artificial intelligence business based in Eureka.

This episode includes stories on North Coast KelpFest, Miranda's Rescue, the Children's Author Festival, and Governor Newsom's bill signings.