Wing Inflatable Rafts from Arcata company sent to Thailand to help rescue...
Rescuers are fighting against difficult conditions, including the threat of monsoon rains and falling oxygen levels, as they try to save those 12 young soccer players and their coach trapped in a...
View ArticleLoleta Community Celebration
Loleta, Ca, (KIEM) It was all about family fun in Downtown Loleta, Sunday afternoon. Dozens came out for the annual Loleta Community Celebration. There were all kinds of neat things to do for every...
View ArticleAnnie and Mary Day Celebration
[This post contains video, click to play] Blue Lake, Ca., (KIEM) For 50 years and counting the City of Blue Lake have been celebrating Annie Carroll and Mary Buckley. Annie and Mary Day is a...
View ArticleEureka senior arrested with half pound of suspected heroin for sales
EUREKA, Calif. (KIEM) – From the Humboldt County Drug Task Force: The post Eureka senior arrested with half pound of suspected heroin for sales appeared first on KIEM-TV | Redwood News.
View ArticleNorth Coast Assembly Member’s cannabis-derived medicine bill receives...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KIEM) – A North Coast Assembly Member is supporting the use of cannabis-based medicine in a new bill that has been signed off by Governor Jerry Brown. Young patients with severe...
View Article82 structures destroyed as Klamathon Fire grows to 36,500 acres, 40% contained
SISKIYOU COUNTY, Calif. (KIEM) – The Klamathon Fire at the California-Oregon border continues to burn this week. The fire has, so far, burned more than 36,500 acres and is 40% percent contained. 82...
View ArticleSecond victim in Highway 101 shooting succumbs to injuries
WILLITS, Calif. (KIEM) – Another victim is dead following a fatal Highway 101 shooting. Earlier this month on the second, a father and a son were shot in a car in the southbound traffic lanes of...
View ArticleHumboldt Ice Rink canceled for upcoming holiday season
FORTUNA, Calif. (KIEM) – The holiday’s season may look a little different in the Eel River Valley this year. At this point, there will not be an ice rink in Fortuna. The Humboldt Ice Rink committee...
View ArticleNorth Coast Assemblymember’s wildfire insurance information bill signed by...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KIEM) – In response to raging wildfires, a bill on wildfire insurance policies, penned by a North Coast representative, reaches the governor’s desk. Since intense fires last fall...
View ArticleChinese restaurant in Eureka closed due to health violations
EUREKA, Calif. (KIEM) – Health code violations uncovered at a Chinese restaurant in Eureka are cause for a mandatory closure. Chinese Gourmet Express in Bayshore Mall was closed on Tuesday after the...
View Article36,500 acre Klamathon Fire reaches 55% containment
SISKIYOU COUNTY, Calif. (KIEM) – The destructive Klamathon wildfire continues to spread along our shared border with Oregon. The fire started last Thursday in Siskiyou County and spread to Jackson...
View ArticleEureka Police K9 officers all smiles during training
FORTUNA, Calif. (KIEM) – Eureka Police say it was a successful day of K9 officer “trailing training”. That’s a tongue twister that basically means these K9 officers Max and Vex are learning how to...
View ArticleFiling dates to run for Eureka mayor, councilmember begin Monday
EUREKA, Calif. (KIEM) – There is time to file papers to run for councilmember or mayor of Eureka. The city is reminding residents that filing dates start in three days, on July 16 at 8AM, and...
View ArticleKlamathon Fire 85% contained, County Fire 97% contained
NAPA, YOLO, SISKYOU COUNTIES, Calif. (KIEM) – Firefighters are inching closer towards containment on two major Northern California blazes. As of Friday night, the 90,288 acre County Fire is up to 97%...
View Article30,000+ marijuana plants eradicated during week-long operation in Northern...
NORTHERN HUMBOLDT COUNTY, Calif. (KIEM) – From the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office: Following a weeklong operation investigating the illegal cultivation of marijuana in Northern Humboldt County, the...
View ArticleFelon found with firearm in Eureka could serve over seven years in prison
EUREKA, Calif. (KIEM) – From the Humboldt County District Attorney’s Office: Today (Friday) a Humboldt County jury found Jessie Matthew Herrera guilty of possession of a firearm by a felon and...
View ArticleFortuna Police close investigation into death of Serbian woman
FORTUNA, Calif. (KIEM) – The Fortuna Police Department’s investigation into the death of 24-year-old Dragana Solaja of Serbia is closed. On April 11th, Solaja died after being found on a porch in...
View ArticleRecently elected Humboldt County Judge to serve first as Court Commissioner
EUREKA, Calif. (KIEM) – From the Humboldt County Superior Court: Lawrence M. Killoran was elected Superior Court Judge on June 5, 2018. He will replace the vacancy created when Judge Dale A....
View ArticleEureka City Council to hear from HACHR on two year program review
EUREKA, Calif. (KIEM) – Eureka City Council is slated to hear from the organization at the center of blame for Eureka’s needle waste issue. At their upcoming meeting Tuesday, Eureka councilmembers and...
View ArticleSkateboarding legend Patti McGee stops in Eureka during ‘Border to Border Tour’
[This post contains video, click to play] EUREKA, Calif. (KIEM) – At 72-years-old, skateboarding legend Patti McGee doesn’t get on her board quite as much as she used to, but she’s still making the...
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