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Caltrans Relaunches Richardson Grove Project; Agency Issues New Environmental Documentation For Controversial Highway 101 Realignment at the South End of the County
A big rig sidles through the grove. Photo: Caltrans.The local Caltrans office just announced, via Facebook, that it is once again ready to move forward with its longstanding plan to reroute…
Additional Charges Filed Against Marci Kitchen During Today’s Arraignment; Trial Date to Be Decided in June
…There she reportedly asked her teen-age son to deliberately run the Jeep into a basketball hoop, apparently in an attempt to explain the damage. The boy refused.Kitchen was arrested after…
Peninsula School Superintendent-Principal Comes Out as Transgender
…As an undergrad at Humboldt State University, Doolan fell in love with the area — "the community and the beaches and the rivers, the farmers' market, Old Town, just all of it." After…
SALMON RUN: Starting Tomorrow, Long-Distance Runners Will Trace the Threatened Fishes’ Natural Path Up the Klamath and Trinity
Press release from the Yurok Tribe: Yurok Eddie Norris carries one of the beautifully carved salmon, which will travel approximately 300 miles from the beginning of the Klamath River to its headwaters…
Eric Lively Held to Answer on Murder Charges After Running Down, Killing Neighbor
LIVELY HEARING, DAY 1: ‘Let’s Load Him in the Back of My Truck’: Neighbor Describes Discovering Shelter Cove Murder Suspect Eric Lively Attempting to Move VictimLIVELY HEARING, DAY 2: Shelter Cove…
24-Year-Old Hoopa Woman Arrested in Connection With Yesterday’s Vehicular Assault Near K’ima:w Medical Center
From the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office: On Wednesday, May 24, 2017 at about 1648 hours, the Hoopa Valley Trial Police Department and the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office responded to Airport…
OBITUARY: Bernice Jean (McCovey) Roubidoux, 1919-2017
…Working in the naval ship yards relocated Bernice to Coos Bay, Ore. where she met the love of her life, Howard Roubidoux. The two then got married in 1944.Bernice and Howard…
Eureka Man Gets 8 Years for Assault on Elderly ‘STUF’T POTATO’ Owner
Humboldt County Office of the District Attorney release: CurtisToday 38-year-old Jason Curtis of Eureka was sentenced to 8 years in prison for his assault on the 76-year-old owner…
Riot at Pelican Bay State Prison Sends Eight Officers, Seven Inmates to Hospital
…The Outpost reached out the the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR). They provided us the following details on the incident: Pelican Bay State Prison (PBSP) officials are investigating an incident…
LIVELY HEARING, DAY 2: Shelter Cove Murder Suspect Told Co-Workers He Wanted to ‘Kill His Neighbors,’ Investigator Testifies
LIVELY HEARING, DAY 1: ‘Let’s Load Him in the Back of My Truck’: Neighbor Describes Discovering Shelter Cove Murder Suspect Eric Lively Attempting to Move Victim# # #A co-worker of murder…
With Murder Charges Thrown Out Three Times, Prosecutors Move Toward Plea Deal For Nicholas Leigl
Attorneys are negotiating a plea deal for Eureka resident Nicholas Kaleoaalii Leigl, accused of being an accessory after the fact in the December 2014 stabbing death of 14-year-old Jesus Romero…
BE ON THE LOOKOUT: Law Enforcement Seeking Mendocino Homicide Suspect Who May Be Driving This Very Spottable Vehicle
…The evidence located at the scene indicated Shipman was the victim of a homicide. Sheriff's Detectives, assisted by investigators of the Mendocino County District Attorney's Office, responded and assumed the…
Pine Hill Woman Arrested for Assault After Allegedly Stabbing Significant Other With Kitchen Knife
From the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office: On Tuesday, May 23, 2017 at about 1600 hours, The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office responded to the 500 block of Herrick Ave in Eureka…
Amid Funding Troubles, County Library Struggles With Increased Crime, Drug Use and Homelessness
Evidence of a transient life lies scattered on the sidewalk at the main branch of the Humboldt County Public Library in Eureka. | All photos submitted anonymously by library employees.Humboldt County's…
Deputies Locate Shelter Cove Vacation Home Burglary Suspect, Who is Taken Into Custody After Short Chase
From the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office: ArlottaOn 05-23-2017, at about 12:45 p.m., Sheriff’s Deputies were dispatched to a residence in the 400 block of Lower Pacific…
SHERIFF’S OFFICE: Be on the Lookout For These Suspects in a Home Invasion Weed Robbery That Happened Near Redway Four Days Ago
From the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office;On Friday, May 19, 2017 at about 0928 hours, The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office responded to the 500 block of Woods Ranch Road in…
‘Let’s Load Him in the Back of My Truck’: Neighbor Describes Discovering Shelter Cove Murder Suspect Eric Lively Attempting to Move Victim
…The two made eye contact, then Lively “peeled out” toward Simpson, deliberately ran a stop sign and never applied his brakes.But the CHP determined the point of impact was in the…
GROUND FLOOR! You Can Buy 100 Shares in a Soap Opera Actor’s New Fortuna Pot Farm For a Penny
Earlier this week came news, via mmjobserver.com, that a subsidiary of the publicly traded company G-Pel International Inc. (OTCMKTS:KGET) had scored a huge coup. It had become, it was…
One Arrested by Drug Task Force During Heroin Raid in Fortuna
…Special Agents with the Humboldt County Drug Task Force, with assistance from the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office served a search warrant at a residence in the 2600 block of Boone Street…
Two Arcata Men Headed to State Prison for Firing on Stewart Avenue Home
…According to the arrest report, an officer pulled over the men's vehicle because it matched the description of a car seen leaving the crime scene. The officer spotted the barrel of…
Don’t Drive Like a Dummy Over Memorial Day Weekend, CHP is Watching
…Although the focus of the MEP is seat belt usage, the CHP will be closely watching for distracted drivers and those driving under the influence (DUI) of drugs or alcohol. “Seat belts…
OBITUARY: James (Jim) Irving LeVenton, 1920-2017
…on Saturday, May 27, at the Fortuna Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses 1475 Ross Hill Rd, Fortuna.###The obituary above was submitted on behalf of Jim LeVenton's family. The Lost…
OBITUARY: Marcia Jean (White) Dubaldi, 1945-2017
Marcia Dubaldi passed away and was greeted in the arms of the Lord of which she devoutly believed on Saturday, May 13, 2017, at the age of 71. She was surrounded by…
CALL HIM ‘YOUR HONOR’: Governor Appoints Gregory Elvine-Kreis — HSU Graduate, Public Defender — to the Humboldt County Bench
From the Desk of Governor Jerry Brown: Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of Gregory J. Elvine-Kreis to a judgeship in the Humboldt County Superior Court.Elvine-Kreis…
TICKS! County Explains How to Protect Yourself From These Disgusting, Blood-Sucking, Disease-Ridden Hellspawn
This is the kind that can carry Lyme disease. Gross. | Image source.From the Humboldt County Department of Health and Human Services: Tick season is quickly approaching, and the Humboldt County Department…
Body Found in South Fork of the Eel River Identified
Humboldt County Sherriff's Office press release:On Saturday, May 20, 2017 at about 1548 hours, The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office responded to a report of a deceased male on the…
A Good Samaritan Disrupted an Armed Robbery Attempt in Hoopa, But the Suspect Managed to Get Away
From the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office:On Thursday, May 18, 2017 at about 0717 hours, The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office along with the California Highway Patrol and the Hoopa Valley…
Eureka Police Assure the Internet That They Are Investigating the Assault of a Zane Student, a Video of Which Lit Up Facebook Over the Weekend
From the Eureka Police Department:In response to a video posted on social media of an assault on the campus of Zane Middle School, the Eureka Police Department issues the following press…
HARDIN: What’s $1.5 Million Worth to the Emerald Triangle?
…However, diverting this money to law enforcement would leave the environmental legacy of the War on Drugs, the unopened buckets of rat poison, the jugs of used motor oil, the leaky diesel…
OBITUARY: Victor Albert George Taylor, 1945-2017
…The nurses and staff at the cancer center and infusion center went above and beyond. To all the above the family is eternally grateful for ensuring Vic’s last months were as…