September 2025

Fortuna City Council Likely to Pass a Freeze on Mobile Home Rent Increases

Newsom Signs Cannabis Tax Relief Bill Into Law

Don’t Be Too Alarmed By the Upcoming Fires on Bald Hills: They’re Prescribed!

Weed Tax Hike Repealed: California Legislature Passes AB 564, Which Will Bring the Cannabis Excise Tax Rate Back Down to 15 Percent Once Gov. Newsom Signs It Into Law

Trump Administration Slams Eel River Dam Removal Plan, But Huffman is Confident the Project Can’t Be Stopped

Cause of Last Month’s Fatal Shelter Cove Plane Crash Remains Unknown and the Wreckage Unrecovered as Federal Agency Releases Preliminary Report

News From Arcata City Council: More Bikeways, More Community Ambassadors, Annie and Mary Trail FUNDED, Calpers Divestment Letter Likely

August 2025

150,000 Acres of Six Rivers National Forest Wilderness Could Lose Protection if Trump Administration Rescinds Roadless Rule

Inside Juan Pablo Cervantes’s Rush to Organize a Special Election in Less Than Half the Usual Time

California Fish and Game Commission Revokes Fortuna Man’s Commercial Fishing License for Crab Trap Violations

Arcata is Making More Sales Tax Money than Ever Before

July 2025

News from City Council: Arcata Friday Night Markets are Officially On, and There May Be More Nice Hotels Downtown in the Distant Future (Plus, See the Proposed Revamp of the Fairwinds!)

June 2025

Getting My Real ID on Opening Day of the Brand-New Eureka DMV

April 2025

Supervisors Approve Letter of Opposition to Bill That Would Redefine ‘Customary Maintenance’ on Billboards

Here’s Why Travis Schneider’s Half-Built Mansion Has Yet to be Torn Down

Eureka DMV to Close Bayshore Mall Office Next Month, Relocate to Former Harley-Davidson Site

With Its Maine Project Dead, Nordic Aquafarms is Seeking New Investors and Facing a Longer Timeline for Its Land-Based Fish Factory on the Samoa Peninsula

Arcata Residents Might be Facing Higher Water Rates — Or Are They?

Orick Residents, at Perpetual Risk of Catastrophic Flood, Get Their First Glimpse at Massive Plan to Restore Redwood Creek

The Fate of Humboldt County’s Largest Private Housing Development in Decades Could Be Decided Tonight

March 2025

At a Packed Town Hall, Huffman Addresses the ‘Existential Threat to Democracy’ Posed by Trump and Responds to Critics of His Support for Israel

(WATCH LIVE) Congressman Jared Huffman Faces Constituents in Eureka

[UPDATED] Humboldt County to Lose $1.2M in Lab Funding, Lay Off Seven Employees Due to the Trump Administration’s Cuts to State Health Services

‘A Crushing Blow’: USDA Cancels Local Food Purchasing Programs That Serve Humboldt’s Schools, Tribes, Seniors and Food Bank While Supporting Ranchers and Farmers

Judge Orders Trump Administration to Immediately Rehire Thousands of Fired Workers; Affected Humboldters React

‘We Are Not the Sewer Lateral Police’: Eureka City Council Tosses Increased Fees for Lateral Repairs in Response to Opposition From Local Realtors

Federal Antisemitism Complaint Filed Against Cal Poly Humboldt

Trump, Musk Plan to Shutter Federal Offices Includes Arcata Site for NOAA Fisheries, Redwood National Park Staff

February 2025

After Chaotic Public Meeting, Blue Lake City Council Opts to Extend Timeline for Proposed Battery Storage Facility

‘I Loved My Job So Much’: Fired Federal Employees in Humboldt County Say Their Unjust Terminations Will Impact the Public

Members of Service Workers Union Protest Republican Budget Resolution That Would Slash Medicaid Funding

Local Federal Employees Were Fired Over the Weekend. Agency Spokespeople Can’t or Won’t Say How Many.

(VIDEO) Congressman Huffman Joins Fellow Democrats Seeking to ‘Fire Elon Musk’

January 2025

Willow Creek Postmaster Set to Retire After 30 Years at the Same Post Office

Trump’s Freeze on Federal Loans and Grants Has Been Rescinded, But Not Before it Sowed Panic and Chaos Locally

This Would Be ‘Devastating’: California Sues to Stop Trump’s Chaos-Inducing Federal Funding Freeze

California Attorney General Files Lawsuit Against Trump Administration to Block Federal Funding Freeze; Huffman Issues Statement: ‘Attack on Democracy’

Trump Order Results in Dismissal of Cases Against Two Locals Who Participated in Jan. 6 Capitol Attack

Rob Bonta and 17 Other Attorneys General Sue Trump Administration to Stop Birthright Citizenship Order

‘Ominous, Weird and Laughably Dumb’: Rep. Jared Huffman Recaps Trump’s Second Inauguration

New Construction Projects Highlighted at Arcata City Council and State of the City Address

December 2024

Appeals Court Reverses Dismissal of Class Action Suit Challenging Humboldt County’s Cannabis Abatement Penalties, Sending the Case Back to District Court

Arcata Volunteer Firefighters Sell Downtown Station to the Arcata Fire Protection District

OUTPOST INTERVIEW: Huffman Voices Frustration With ‘Feckless Republicans’ as Government Shutdown Looms

(WATCH LIVE) Taxpayers Group Announces Suit Accusing Huffman and Thompson of Funding Genocide in Gaza

Huffman Named Ranking Member of the House Natural Resources Committee

Here’s Why U.S. Coast Guard Station Humboldt Bay Has Been Wrapped in Plastic for Weeks On End

November 2024

Humboldt County Agrees to Pay $150K to Settle Lawsuit Accusing a Sheriff’s Deputy of Excessive Force

Appeals Court Rejects Coastal Commission’s Approval of Trinidad Rancheria’s Planned Hyatt Hotel Project

Judge Tosses the Latest Injunction From Environmental Groups Over Caltrans’ Richardson Grove Improvement Project