While October holds its breath, the salmon masses, yearning to spawn, yearning for death, pace, undulating and patient, at the blocked river's mouth, their ...

Editor: Welcoming Mitch Trachtenberg's entry (Mailbox, Oct. 31) into the Barry Evans inspired ("Plenty o' Nuttin," Oct. 10) philosophical debate regarding "nothing," I begin ...

Fieldbrook Country Kitchen When the Fieldbrook Market (4636 Fieldbrook Road) closed, Paddy O'Dwyer was among those who grieved. "We used to come here a ...

Humboldt County's favorite slimy, sluggish friend just got a promotion from redwood resident to California state symbol. The banana slug was one of three ...

Looking up and around during the day, it's easy to understand why the ancients believed that we live under a great dome of sky.

On the eve of whatever is to come, I briefly struggled with the notion of dragging myself to another Robert Zemeckis experiment in "cutting-edge" ...

As I write this in the limbo of Election Day, I know I'm not the only person who's gone through the past week or ...

Due to the nature of deadlines and the passage of linear time, I have far less insight into the winner of the presidential election ...