Orick News

ALAMEDA, Calif. -- The Coast Guard assisted the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection in the medical evacuation of an auto accident victim who was injured after losing control of her vehicle and colliding with a tree while driving southbound on Highway 101 near Orick, Calif., this morning.

Christopher Grant, 49, and his mother, Bobbie Grant, 63, both of Klamath, received major injuries Saturday morning in a single-vehicle accident on U.S. Highway 101 north of Orick, according to the California Highway Patrol.

New Federal Emergency Management Agency requirements for flood insurance maps will likely mean the deaccreditation of Orick's Redwood Creek levees, resulting in a huge increase in flood insurance costs and a dampening of development activity in the county's northernmost community.

The Bald Hills are aglow with the purple fire of riverbank lupine. It's one of the best displays to be seen in years in the grasslands and oak woodlands southeast of Orick, say Redwood National and State Parks personnel.

Finally, those darned redwoods are going to pay off. Heh heh. Seriously, come October -- well, even in the months leading up to October -- the world is going to be embraced in a great, big, National Geographic -sized redwoodhug the likes of which nobody's seen, at least not in a very long while.

If successful in all its requests, Humboldt County is in line for more than $4 million in federal stimulus funds to finance an assortment of projects from upgrading heavy equipment and lessening diesel emissions to boosting the number of deputies in the Sheriff's Office.

Below is an excerpt from the book Off the Beaten Path: A Travel Guide to More Than 1,000 Scenic and Interesting Places Still Uncrowded and Inviting by the editors of Reader's Digest.

Eighth-grader Courtney Magana holds one of the simulated babies Thursday afternoon at Crescent Elk Middle School.

There's a kinship that binds everyone who works or has worked in the forest products industry.

"Not one, not two, not four, but eight Veterans Day essay contest winners!" said Mr.

Awards, loans, and plans -- it's all on the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors' agenda for Tuesday's meeting.

As the saying goes, if one blinks while traveling through the little town of Orick on U.S. Highway 101 just north of Trinidad, you'll miss it.

The identity of two 22-year-olds who died in a single-car crash near Orick Wednesday have been released by the Humboldt County Coroner's Office.

A single vehicle crash near Orick ended with two 22-year-olds killed, and two others injured, early this morning.

The origins of the name probably change depending on who you ask and what time of day it is.

"The people here are tenacious," says photographer Arleen Olson about the people of Humboldt County.

When 14-year-old Jessica Oliver's living situation changed this past winter, she left the big city of Los Angeles and came to live with her aunt and uncle, Michael and Marna Powell, in the tiny town of Orick.

A little more than two months after ending a hard-fought battle to represent the 2nd District on the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors, former candidate Estelle Fennell is now the public face and executive ...

Ten years ago, Orick resident and professional quilter Jan Box wanted to give her daughter, Summer Dias, and her friends who were in high school at the time, something to do.

Jan Box of the Young & Old Quilt Club in Orick is teaching free quilting classes from 3 to 5 p.m. Thursdays at the McKinleyville Community Collaborative Family Resource Center at the Nazarene Church, 2333 ...