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Two Alleged Weed Ripoffs Took Numerous Law Enforcement Agencies on A Wild Chase Around Highway 36 Yesterday
From the Trinity County Sheriff's Office:RICHARD S. HALL DOB:21 DECEMBER 1972 (ARRESTED)TOMMY A. HORTON DOB: 31 OCTOBER 1975 (ARRESTED)On Monday, 07 NOV 16, at approximately 1045 hours…
PG&E Assures You That Those Helicopters Flying Around This Week Are Not Jade Helm
…Work will be completed by the end of the week. The contracted helicopters fly at approximately 400 feet, depending on the area and if livestock are present. PG&E patrols remote power…
(VIDEO) Talking With Early Voters About Prop. 64 and This Year’s Long, Long Ballot
…In this LoCO video report we head down to the Elections Office to talk to early voters about Proposition 64 and everything else on this year's very long ballot."I just…
ELECTION DAY! Today’s the Day When Everything Goes to Hell, Or Maybe Not
…Send us interesting stuff that you see from around the web, and we'll try to collate the most interesting of the interesting.Things will pick up around the afternoon/evening, we…
‘Like Extortion’: Senator McGuire Says Rockport Still Angling For Higher Medi-Cal Rates at Skilled Nursing Homes
File photo of a protest over the planned closures of three skilled nursing facilities.After months of threatening to close three of the five local skilled nursing facilities in his massive health…
Hot! Hot! Hot! Eureka Hit 72 Degrees Monday. (Reminder: It’s November.)
So hot! (For Humboldt.)Dayum! Did you have to take your jacket off today too? Sure! That's because Monday was officially the warmest November 7 in Eureka's recorded history, with…
Catburglar or Catburglars Snatch Wallet and Keys From Elderly Fortuna Man, Who Was Sleeping
From the Fortuna Police Department:On November 7, 2016 at approximately 7:40 am Fortuna Police Officers received a report of an unoccupied suspicious vehicle (a white 2006 Chevy Colorado) parked in…
Blue Lake House Burglar Nabbed in the Act Thanks to Alert Neighbor, Sheriff’s Office Says
From the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office:On Friday, November 4, 2016 at about 3 p.m. Humboldt County Deputies responded to the 100 block of Rouss Ct. in Blue Lake for…
UPDATED: Rockport Owner Changes Plans, Says Two of Three Skilled Nursing Homes Slated for Closure Will Remain Open
UPDATE, 3:28 p.m.:Here's a statement from National Union of Healthcare Workers President Sal Rosselli:The community has won a significant victory by preventing Brius and its CEO Shlomo…
Would-Be Jail Smuggler’s Body Cavity Found to Contain Self-Harming Substance or Object, Sheriff’s Office Says
…The inmate received medical treatment at the hospital and returned to the Correctional Facility on November 1, 2016.If not for the decision making of correctional staff and the use of the…
Former Eureka City Councilmember Jim Howard Passes Away at Age 100
…Jim Howard served the City of Eureka as Council Member of the 1st Ward from January 1972 until November 1990. In addition to serving on the City Council, Jim Howard served on…
OBITUARY: Laura Lee Hopkinson-Garrett, 1935-2016
…Laura’s mother piled Laura and her siblings into a wagon — along with a loaf of cornbread that had been baking in the oven — then walked away with the wagon as the…
Today’s House Fire in Eureka Human-Caused, Suspicious in Nature, Says Humboldt Bay Fire
From Humboldt Bay Fire:On November 6, 2016 at approximately 2:53PM Humboldt Bay Fire responded to a 2 alarm residential structure fire in the 400 block of T Street. Three fire…
Humboldt Bay Fire Battling Active Structure Fire at Boarded-Up Home On T Street
Photos by Hank Sims.UPDATE, 2:30:Sims reports that firefighters seem to have knocked down the blaze. There are no ambulances on scene.One lane traffic control on 4th Street.###Humboldt…
The Harris Street Water Tower Gets Branded with Eureka High School’s Team Logo
LoCO reporter Andrew Goff snapped these photos of the freshly painted sign a couple of days ago.After years of deliberation, the Harris Street Water Tower has been stamped with the name…
GROWING OLD UNGRACEFULLY: Not a Gun-Control Column
I last wrote about guns and gun control 30 years ago, in an op-ed for the Bellingham Herald. As I recall, I tried to cover all the bases, naively appealing to…
Local Homeless Advocacy Group AHHA Holds Meeting to Address the Ongoing Homeless Crisis in Humboldt County
Director of the Western Regional Advocacy Project Paul Boden speaks to AHHA members. Photos by John Ross Ferrara.A few dozen homeless advocates gathered in the Labor Union Temple in Eureka this…
Pipeline Protesters Storm the Old Town Gazebo, March Toward the Eureka Courthouse Chanting “Water is Life”
…Photos by John Ross Ferrara.A group of about 150 people swarmed the gazebo in Old Town Eureka this afternoon to unify Humboldt County in protest of the Dakota Access Pipeline.Protester…
High Surf Advisory: 19 to 22-Foot Waves Will Pound Humboldt’s Coastline Today
…Large breakers in the surf zone will reach 19 to 22 feet this afternoon through early Sunday morning. Stay safe today by staying farther back from the surf and off of rocks…
(VIDEO) Take a step into the world of gems and minerals at the 62nd annual Humboldt Rock Show
…Then there's funky stuff you've probably never heard of, such as malachite stalactite and malachite chrysocolla from the Congo.But the gems and minerals don't just fall in the…
Fortuna Motel Robbed by Man Wielding a Sawed-Off Shotgun, Suspect is Still At Large
…The suspect fled the scene on foot with an undisclosed amount of cash. Anyone with information about the incident is asked to contact the Fortuna Police Department at 707-725-7550 or…
(VIDEO) Can’t You See? Here is a ‘No on 64’ Anthem Set to the Cadence of Notorious B.I.G.’s ‘Hypnotize’
In four days California will decide whether or not the days of marijuana prohibition will dissipate poof-like into the air like an exhaled bong rip. But not so fast! As we…
County Receives $400K Grant to Launch ‘Second Chance Program’ for People on Probation
Press release from Humboldt County:The Humboldt County Economic Development Team and Workforce Development Board today announced the receipt of a $400,000 recidivism reduction grant award from the State Workforce Development…
OBITUARY: Juanita Marian Antich, 1929-2016
Photo provided by Kathleen Wright.Our mother Juanita Marian Antich passed away peacefully in her sleep with her family by her side on October 17, 2016 at the age of 87. She…
(VIDEO) WATCH Sector Humboldt Bay Airlift Some Guy Stuck in the Mud Near Daby Island to Safety
…3, of a pontoon boat with one person aboard stuck in the mud on the north side of Daby Island. The Coast Guard coordinated with Humboldt County Sheriff's Department personnel and…
With Election Just Days Away, Eureka Council Candidates Finally Engage in Heated Debate … on Facebook
…The philosophical divide here extends to each candidate's supporters. "The current liberal majority on the council have started to get involved in issues that don’t have any concern for the…
OBITUARY: Anthony Meeker, 1962-2016
…He was in a nursing home for two years because of a back injury that left him paralyzed from the waist down. The doctors told him he would never walk again; but…
Eureka Gas Station, Motel Both Held Up at Point of a Shotgun Last Night; Suspect At Large
From the Eureka Police Department: On November 3, 2016, at about 11:39 p.m., officers with the Eureka Police Department responded to a gas station on the 2100 block of 4th…
Sheriff’s Office Probation Search Reveals King Salmon ‘Drug House’
From the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office:On the evening of November 3rd, 2016, Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office (HCSO) Deputies conducted a Probation search in the 100 block of Perch Street…
(VIDEO) From Stage to Screen — The Stars of ‘Mary Jane’ Tell All
…The saga of Mary Jane started at the Dell'Arte International School of Physical Theatre in Blue Lake. It's a musical all about celebrating the green goddess while acknowledging the pros…