KMUD News

At this week's Mendocino Board of Supervisors Meeting, Sheriff Matt Kendall asked for new personnel and upwards of $500,000 a year in funding to combat illegal cannabis grows and human trafficking. KMUD News Reports.  

KMUD News spoke with Telegraph Ridge Fire Chief Tanner Spies and Briceland VFD Public Information Officer Camilo Stevenson about the recent Woods Fire near Redway and wildfire preparedness 

A Eureka man is in ICE custody after he was pulled over in Wyoming, while driving on a family vacation. After telling the family they were only recieving a fix-it ticket, ICE agents arrested Gilberto Jimenez Gonzalez and put him in federal custody. Reporter Ryan Hutson spoke with Luz Moreno, Gonzalez’s wife. 

New federal court filings and audio from the standoff reveal new details about how it started, how it ended, and the suspect's history in another state. Lisa Music reports. 

This episode is jam packed, and we’re moving straight into our main stories. Topics covered include the recent ICE arrest of a Eureka resident including an interview with his wife, the kidnapping of Forest Service biologists at Gumboot lake, local fire departments discuss yesterday’s woods fire near Redway, and Port Terminal Uses are debated for the Humboldt Bay Area Plan. 

In this episode we have stories on continued safety issues in Shelter Cove, possible good news for the cannabis economy, and the Humboldt registrar of voters responds to Trump's election claims

Some upbeat developments for the cannabis industry were discussed during an online presentation for the HCGA. Daniel Mintz reports. 

Humboldt County will be taking up bans on offshore oil support facilities and detention centers and a moratorium on data centers. Daniel Mintz reports. 

In this episode we have stories on the first cannabis bust from this week’s helicopter activity, sentencing for a double homicide, Humboldt Supervisors Taking Action on Oil Facilities, Detention Centers and Data Centers, along with this week’s Sports Report. 

A Humboldt County man convicted in a 2022 double homicide that left a four-year-old girl orphaned was sentenced this week to more than a century in state prison.