November 2020

STILL YELLOW: Amid Rising Case Counts and Test Positivity Rates Statewide, Humboldt Remains One of Six Counties in California’s Lowest COVID Tier

First Post-Election Report Issued; 4,673 More Votes Counted, About 17,500 to Go; Bushnell Theoretically Within Striking Distance of Incumbent Estelle Fennell

County Election Official Says Just Over 22,000 Humboldt Votes Remain to Be Counted

Leading Eureka City Council Candidates Express Optimism This Morning, With Various Levels of Caution

ELECTION NIGHT FINAL REPORT: With Tens of Thousands of Votes Likely Left to Count, We Know Some Things — But Not Much

THE BIG ELECTION DAY LIVEBLOG! LoCO Will Be at Our Stations and Out on the Streets Right Here in This Thread All Day and Night

EVERYONE: If You’re Voting In Person Today, Bring Your Mail-In Ballot!

More Than Half of Humboldt’s Registered Voters Have Already Voted

What Do You Think About Fluoride? Local Health Officials Would Like to Hear It

October 2020

The Eureka Police Department Would Like You to Keep Cool While We Vote

RED FLAG WARNING: A Decent Swath of Humboldt Could be in the Path of Another Public Safety Power Shutoff Next Week

(VIDEO) Gangly Teenage Nimrod Steals Biden Yard Sign, Trips, Gets Momentarily Spooked by Incoming Headlights

Alderpoint Road, Ruth Lake in Path of PG&E’s Public Safety Power Shutoff This Evening

Food for People Will be Tearing Down and Rebuilding its Sewage-Damaged 14th Street Headquarters, and it Kicks Off With a Zoom Party at Noon

KSLG’s Sabina Gallier Wins Prestigious National Radio Award for ‘Black Voices of Humboldt’ Series

MEASURE C: Ranked-Choice Voting Would Bring More Democracy and Better Democracy to Eureka, Backers Say, but Citizens Will Have to Get Used to a New Way to Cast and Count Votes

September 2020

FIRE ROUNDUP: Red-Salmon Fire Tops 100,000 Acres; Highway 199 Still Closed Between Del Norte County and Oregon

Positive COVID Test at In-Person Redwood Prep Elementary School Moves One Classroom to Distance Learning

(UPDATE) Toxic Cyanobacteria Discovered in Mad River, Says Blue Lake Rancheria; Avoid Contact With Water Near Blue Lake

FIRE ROUNDUP: The August Complex, Which is Threatening the Southeast of the County, is Now the Largest Wildfire in California History; Red-Salmon, Slater Fires Continue to Grow

Here is Another Reminder That You Need to Fill Out the Census ASAP if You Haven’t Already Done So

HIGHWAY UPDATE: 101 Open at Willits; 199 Still Closed Between Crescent City and Oregon; 96 Closed in Siskiyou County

(PHOTOS) Humboldt Rises to Feeble Dawn as Smoke Chokes Coastal Skies

INTRODUCING: The Outpost’s New and Soon-to-Be Star Reporter Jacquelyn Opalach, Who Wants to Hear Your Stories About Local Schools and School Systems!

August 2020

District Attorney to Bring Reckless Driving Charges Against Person Who Drove Through Mass of McKinleyville Black Lives Matter Protesters in June

LoCO Elections is Back! Put Your Questions to Candidates for Local Office Before You Fill Out Your Ballot

(UPDATE) Sheriff’s Deputy’s Vehicle Strikes Pedestrian in Downtown Eureka This Morning

Want to Know If Your Power Might be Shut Off Soon? PG&E Has a Complicated Tool For Attempting to Figure That Out

Rep. Huffman Meets With Local Postal Workers Outside Eureka’s West Clark Street Station

MORE HOTTER AGAIN: Excessive Heat Watch Issued for Tomorrow, Saturday as Humboldt’s Inland Areas Expected to Top 100 Degrees

HERE COMES THE HEAT! North Coast Interior Forecasted to Roast Early Next Week — and Even the Coast Should Be Sunny, Too

Political Commentator and Prominent Husband Matthew Owen to Seek Eureka City Council Seat

Youth Sports Guidelines Will Soon be Available, Says County Health Officer Ahead of Today’s Media Q&A Session

July 2020

The Bad News and the Good News From LOCO HQ: We are Losing Star Reporter Freddy Brewster … but We’re Hiring!

Lightning-Sparked Wildfires Are Burning in the Far Northeast of the County

(PHOTOS/VIDEO) Large Grass Fire on Samoa Peninsula Sending Clouds of Smoke Into Eureka

Dr. Frankovich on Non-Mask-Wearing Bus Drivers, Large Social Gatherings and the Possibility of Humboldt County Ending Up on the State Watch List

(PHOTOS/VIDEO) That Smoke Rising Up From the Eureka Waterfront Comes From a Big Pile of Trash on Fire

County Debuts ‘Alert Assessment Tool’ to Quantify Humboldt’s COVID-19 Risk

COVID and the Cannabis Industry, the Sorry State of Testing, Weddings and More: Humboldt’s Public Health Officer Takes Media Questions on the Pandemic

COVID Testing Woes and the Risks of Celebrating the Holiday During a Statewide Surge: Questions for Deputy Public Health Officer Josh Ennis

Arcata City Council to Discuss Big Water/Sewer Rate Hikes, Coronavirus-Related Grant Applications and Oh So Much More Tonight

June 2020

‘Our Time of Personal Responsibility’: In Today’s Media Availability, Public Health Officer Talks About California’s Case Spike, COVID in Kids and Pets, Bars, More

Big Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox Have Masked Up For Your Safety

Youth Sports, Bad Hand Sanitizers and the 2020-21 School Year: Humboldt County’s Public Health Officer Again Takes the Media’s COVID Questions

In Video Address to the County, Humboldt’s Public Health Officer Talks About the New Business Sectors Opening Today and Lays Out a Rough Timetable for the Future

Wildberries Marketplace Notifies Customers That One of Its Employees Has Tested Positive for the COVID-19 Virus

Want to Tune In to Today’s Board of Supes Meeting? Here’s How

(PHOTOS/VIDEO) McKinleyville ‘Stand Against Racism and Police Brutality’ Underway

Humboldt County COVID Modeling, Statistics and Asymptomatic Transmission: Deputy Public Health Director Dr. Josh Ennis Takes Media Questions