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MONDAYS WITH MICHAELE: ‘Humboldt For Joy’
Wowza! Your President of Positivity might have met her match this week! For our latest adventure, kick off your Monday at the beach with Michaele and her buddy Kristy Hellum, a local…
(AUDIO) HUMBOLDT HOLDING UP: Getting to Know the Foggy Bottoms Boys, Gay Ferndale Farmers and Social Media Stars
(AUDIO) HUMBOLDT HOLDING UP: Getting to Know the Foggy Bottoms Boys, Gay Ferndale Farmers and Social Media Stars
GROWING OLD UNGRACEFULLY: Follies (Just Because)
…It held the record for the tallest man-made structure in the world, twice the height of the previous record-holder, the Washington Monument, and only surpassed 40 years later by NYC…
LETTER from ISTANBUL: Autumn Rhythms: Life in the ‘New Normal’
…In the city by the Bosphorus, students and teachers are back on campus (although we still have online lessons a couple days of the week). Seeing all the young people makes the…
Early Morning Fire at Brainard Destroys PG&E Building
Photo taken by Dana Utman, from across the bay at the Arcata Marsh.Press release from Humboldt Bay Fire:On 11/13/2021 @ 0636 Humboldt Bay Fire responded to a reported Structure…
THE ECONEWS REPORT: Pomo Perspectives on Forest Protection at the Jackson State Forest
…Chairman Hunter has been on the front lines of the struggle to protect sacred cultural resources and protect the redwood forest that his people have called home since time immemorial. The Coyote…
OBITUARY: Marie Judith Lorensen, 1945-2021
…Marie always enjoyed reading and her love of books led her to owning and operating The Paperback Exchange in Eureka for ten years. She was part-owner of the Lorensen family beef…
Mom of Bear River Murderer and Her Boyfriend Charged With Being Accessories After the Fact
Two people have been charged with being accessories after the fact to the Feb. 11 murders of three people on the Bear River Rancheria. Mauricio Eduardo Johnson’s mother, Melissa Rene Johnson…
GUTSWURRAK: Humboldt State Renames Student Activities Center to Honor Wiyot Legacy
…The naming recognizes the importance of the space as well as HSU’s location on traditional Wiyot land.The name will be formally added and celebrated at an event early in the…
Redistricting Nears the Finish Line! Your Final Supervisorial, Congressional and Legislative Districts are Almost Certainly Going to Look Like This For the Next Decade
We're getting right up against the redistricting deadline — Dec. 15 — and over the last week, both the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors (which is in charge of local redistricting) and the…
Fortuna Cemetery District and Local Mortuary at Odds Over Who’s Responsible for Moving Caskets to the Gravesites
A graveside burial preparation at Sunrise Cemetery in Fortuna | Photo provided by Tony Eusted###In the friendly city of Fortuna, a dispute has been brewing between the city’s only mortuary, Goble…
Liz Lara-O’Rourke Named New CEO of United Indian Health Services
…Lara-O'RourkeLiz Lara-O'Rourke has been named the new CEO of United Indian Health Services (UIHS.) Lara-O'Rourke has served in multiple roles at UIHS over her 34 year…
California’s State Auditor: ‘Speak the Truth to Power’
…I would say one of the challenging audits was the University of California. … When we were conducting the audit we did a few years ago and we found out that the Office…
California Redistricting: Four Key Questions
…The draft maps that were approved Wednesday night are generally along the lines of the final round of “visualizations” that the commission worked on this week. They include reworked congressional districts in…
Elderly Woman From Ferndale Holds Alleged Burglar at Gunpoint Until Deputies Arrive to Make Arrest, Sheriff’s Office Says
Press release from the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office: On Nov. 10, 2021, at about 9:19 p.m., Humboldt County Sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to a residence on the 700…
Humboldt’s Orion Cosce Announces UFC 271 Bout Against Mike ‘Blood Diamond’ Mathetha, Sets Sights on First UFC Victory
A look at Cosce's next opponent Mike "Blood Diamond" Mathetha.Humboldt born MMA pro Orion Cosce is set to return to the octagon for his second official UFC bout on Feb…
OBITUARY: Loberta Bartlett Gwin, 1922-2021
Loberta Bartlett Gwin passed away on November 2, 2021 at Timber Ridge in McKinleyville at the age of 98.Loberta was born in Rio Dell (Stephenson Hollow) on December 19, 1922. She…
Fortuna Man Accused of Accessory to a Homicide Arrested
Fortuna Police Department press release:On Wednesday at about 11 a.m., detectives from the Fortuna Police Department located 47-year-old Von Eric Keener of Fortuna. Von Eric Keener. | FPD Mr…
(UPDATE: FOUND) Eureka Police Ask Public’s Help in Locating 71-Year-Old Local Man Known to Use Two Walking Sticks
…12:The EPD lets us know that Mr. Bridges has been in touch, and he's fine. ### From the Eureka Police Department:The Eureka Police Department is asking for the public’s…
Human Rights Commission Issues ‘Call for Immediate Action’ on Homelessness, Asks Board of Supervisors to Respond to Seven-Point List of Concerns Before Dec. 15
…Lynn Martinez [attached].The members of the Humboldt County Human Rights Commission recognize the efforts of the Board of Supervisors to alleviate the aggravated conditions of homelessness over the past decade and…
SoHum Traffic Stop Results in Firearm, Narcotics Arrest
Press release from the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office: On Nov. 9, 2021, at about 11:28 p.m., Humboldt County Sheriff’s deputies on patrol in the Redway area conducted a…
Winged Warning: Migrating Birds Hit Hard by California’s Drought
Snow geese fly over the Sacramento River National Wildlife Refuge complex in Willows on Oct. 6, 2021. Photo by Nina Riggio for CalMatters###It says something about the complexity of California’s…
Where Are the Flashpoints in California Redistricting?
…Diluting voting power? Of the many challenges that the census data delay caused, the Voting Rights Act data analysis may have been one of the most consequential. After population numbers, the second…
OBITUARY: Marilyn Louise Barnes Van Deventer Goodwin, 1939-2021
Marilyn Louise Barnes Van Deventer GoodwinJuly 31, 1939 – October 23, 2021 Marilyn Louise Barnes Van Deventer Goodwin passed away peacefully on October 23, 2021, at Seaview Rehabilitation and Wellness Center at the…
OBITUARY: Edward Fracker, 1928-2021
…He was later awarded the Purple Heart for being wounded that day.After the war he was able to use the GI Bill to go to college. He attended Wagner College and…
OBITUARY: Marian Elaine Buck, 1925-2021
…She also was assigned to the ambulance team at the Arcata Naval Auxiliary Air Station (now Arcata Airport), which was built during the war to test defogging systems (FIDO: Fog Investigation and…
‘Something is Broken’: County Staff, Supervisors and Department Heads Confront Auditor-Controller in Collective Airing of Grievances
Humboldt County Auditor-Controller Karen Paz Dominguez. | Screenshot from a September meeting.###The main event at Tuesday's remarkable meeting of the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors resembled a desperate intervention of…
(PHOTOS) Abandoned Victorian Home in Eureka Suffers Extensive Fire Damage; Blaze ‘Human-Caused,’ Officials Believe
…The fire was completely controlled and extinguished shortly thereafter.Once the fire was contained and the investigation complete, City of Eureka Code Enforcement took control of the scene and boarded up the…
50-MPH Winds Cut Power to More than 3,000 Customers Across Humboldt County
…last night, a tree came down onto power lines at Central Ave., north of Airport Road in McKinleyville," PG&E spokesperson Deanna Contreras told the Outpost. "The county did remove the tree…
(UPDATE: BLOWN UP) Eureka Police, Sheriff’s Office Bomb Squad Looking at Suspicious Device in Downtown Eureka
As documented in the above video, the bomb squad has fired a shell at the suspicious device. Sheriff's Office Spokesperson Samatha Karges, at the scene, tells the Outpost that it has…