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Fire Burns Dock, Warehouse in Fields Landing
…Units used master streams, elevated streams and the fireboat to control the fire in top of the dock. Portions of the dock failed allowing the fire to burn under the dock. Crews…
OBITUARY: Jeanne Katherine Miller Cissna, 1922-2018
Jeanne Katherine Miller Cissna, a most beloved mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, passed away on Sunday, August 19, 2018, at the age of 95, with family around her bedside at Renaissance in…
OBITUARY: Marie Louise Boynton, 1931-2018
…At the home, Marie became housekeeper and cook; at the ranch, she became the bookkeeper, tax preparer, and even a farm hand some days when she would help bale hay or retrieve…
(VIDEO) Large Structure Fire in Fields Landing
…The name of the building and the cause of the fire are unknown at this point. We'll update when we know more. A reader, Kaitlyn Howard, sent us this video at…
HUMBOLDT RESPONDS: Gov. Brown Signs Major Criminal Justice Reform Bill Doing Away With Cash Bail
…Jerry Brown put his signature to Senate Bill 10, and thusly made California the first state in the nation to do away entirely with the cash bail system. Starting in October 2019…
Calfire Units Are Dashing Around the County From Fire to Fire This Afternoon
Approximate location of the eight-acre fire currently burning out near the Southern Humboldt-Trinity line.Firefighters for Calfire — the state agency responsible for most of our backwoods wildlands have been kept…
Highway 96 Reopened
Outpost file photo of Highway 96.Highway 96 is officially open for your driving needs.The Hoopa Fire Department and Office of Emergency Services reported on social media moments ago that the…
(VIDEO) ‘We’re Changing Ourselves’: Dell’Arte Brings Theater Classes to Inmates at Pelican Bay
Arts in Pelican Bay State Prison from Malcolm DeSoto on Vimeo.###The short documentary above, directed by local filmmaker Malcolm DeSoto, explores the first-ever theater arts program offered at Pelican Bay…
(UPDATE) Former Lumberjack Running Back Ja’Quan Gardner to Sign With 49ers for Final Preseason Game
Ja'Quan Gardner | Orional photo provided bu HSU.UPDATE, 1 p.m.:The HSU Athletics Department has announced that Gardner officially signed a three-year deal with the 49ers today. This likely…
Bomb Squad Called to McKinleyville to Deal With Suspicious Object, Which Actually Turned Out to Be a Bomb
From the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office:On Aug. 27, 2018, at about 2:30 p.m., the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office Emergency Communications Center received the report of a suspicious…
Mill Creek 1 Fire Shows Little Growth, Now 79 Percent Contained
…The public should be aware that fire personnel may still be in this area working in and near the highway. WEATHER: Today the area around the fire will see temperatures climb into…
Firefighters Extinguish Late-Night Vegetation Fire Near Cher-Ae Heights Casino
Photos by Outpost reader Glenn Kaminsky.A quarter-acre vegetation fire broke out along the Trinidad hillside last night just south of Cher-Ae Heights Casino.Calfire Public Information Officer Laura Coleman…
Sheriff’s Office Names Homicide Victims Found in Burning Car; Says Both Were Shot Dead
…Autopsies of the bodies revealed that both victim’s causes of death were gunshot wounds. Anyone with information about this case or related criminal activity is encouraged to call the Humboldt County…
OBITUARY: John Zinselmeir, 1947-2018
John Stephen Zinselmeir, 70, of McKinleyville, passed away on August 4, 2018 at his home in Mad River.The Rosary will be at 12:30 p.m., September 8th, at Christ the…
Eureka Code Enforcement and EPD Crack Down on Problem Houses, Evicting Residents and Hauling Out 100 Cubic Yards of Junk
"Garbage and debris" from a house on the 2100 block of California Street in Eureka. | Photos courtesy Eureka Police Department. The same property after EPD cleaned up.Press release from the Eureka…
Humboldt Bay Fire Battles Series of Vegetation Blazes Along the Hikshari Trail
…When they arrived and sorted out the situation, they found a few medium-sized patches of fire somewhere in the neighborhood of 100x30 feet each burning along the Hikshari Trail, between the…
Final Drive: HSU Football Player Documents Final Season With Web Miniseries
Episode 1 of "The Final Drive."Fans are getting inside access to the locker room of Humboldt State University’s last football team.For the second year in a row, Jacks Punter…
(UPDATED) Bass to Appoint Former Eureka Councilmember Mike Newman to County Planning Commission
…This reversal angered a group of neighborhood activists called the Westside Community Group, though things worked out fine in the end; members of the group raised the funds to purchase the site…
Mill Creek 1 Fire Grows to 3,600 Acres and is 74 Percent Contained; Highway 96 Still Touch-and-Go
…As soon as the hazard of trees and other debris falling into the highway is mitigated, the road will reopen to the public.WEATHER: Today the area around the fire will see…
McGuire Bill Cracking Down on Illegal Timberland Conversion Goes to Governor’s Desk
…The bear-like mammal, the Fisher, is close to extinction due to the practices of rogue cannabis growers. Illegal timberland conversion to cannabis violations have jumped over 200 percent since the passage…
HARDIN: A Community in Crisis
I listened to the “Community in Crisis” Southern Humboldt Town Hall Meeting held last Thursday at the Mateel on KMUD, which broadcasted the meeting live. Many people who the county believes grow…
OBITUARY: Franklyn Stansberry-Shea, 1993-2018
…Eversole Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.###The obituary above was submitted on behalf of Frankie Stansberry-Shea's family. The Lost Coast Outpost runs obituaries of Humboldt County residents at no…
(UPDATE) AT&T Down Again, Company Says It’s Working to Fix the Problem
…We will update when we know more. .@ATT is once again working to fix challenges related to the fiber line in #Humboldt County. Crews are currently working to resolve the issue out…
SWAT Team Finds 13 People Tied Up at Marijuana Grow on Dyerville Loop Road; Masked, Heavily-Armed Suspects Reportedly Still at Large
…The team searched the area however no suspects were located. Evidence was collected at the scene and the incident is still under investigation. The identity of the suspects is unknown at this…
Mill Creek Fire 1 Fire Grows to 3,600 Acres, Now More Than 50 Percent Contained
The Mill Creek Fire 1 Fire has grown by roughly 600 acres since Friday, now burning 3,600 acres of Hoopa tribal land.The fire, which the Hoopa Fire Department and Office…
GROWING OLD UNGRACEFULLY: The Pursuit of Unhappiness
…the Beethovens and Springsteens, the Georgia O’Keeffes and Samuel Taylor Coleridges, the Virgina Woolfs, Franz Kafkas, Jackson Pollocks, the … you get the picture. These are the “creatures” Wilson refers to when…
OBITUARY: Daniel Thomas Fini, 1954-2018
…A special thank you goes out to the “Ab Dive gang” for always including him in the annual event. After retiring, Dan volunteered at the St. Joseph Rehabilitation facility’s Healing Garden…
(UPDATE) People Are Reporting AT&T Internet Outages in Humboldt
Just got off the phone with @ATT reps: @ATT crews are out in the field and working the fiber outage in #Humboldt. There is no word on a cause, they’re working…
OBITUARY: Raymond E. Costa
…He was very active in the Loleta Chamber of Commerce, Knights of Columbus, VFW, Friendship Circle Dance Club, the Moose Lodge and the Moose Dance Club. Dubbed the informal "Mayor of Loleta…
(VIDEO) Join Miles Slattery at the Newly Renovated Del Norte Street Pier Park
After a lot of hard work, the City of Eureka has upgraded the recreation area near Del Norte Pier in Eureka into a fully functioning playground and dog park.Today Community Services…