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HARDIN: Aggressive Soliciation
It's open season on the poor and homeless in Southern Humboldt. Vigilante gangs terrorize them on the streets. Cops abuse them and local merchants harass them for not looking prosperous enough…
Yurok Tribe Threatens to Take Legal Action Over ‘Massive Fish Disease Outbreaks’
…Prior to the installation of the dam project, massive winter flows carrying a modest coarse sediment load would scour the riverbed, clearing it of the detritus favored by the worm. The impassable…
Growing Old Ungracefully: Brexit Bummer
…The invasion “signified the end of Great Britain’s role as one of the world’s major powers,” according to the Historical Dictionary of Anglo-American Relations. Burning oil tanks beside the…
One Person Killed, One Hospitalized With Severe Burns During Second Klamath House Fire in Two Days
Aftermath of the deadly fire on Webber Drive that claimed the life of an elderly man. One Klamath resident and several animals have died after a home on Weber Drive caught fire…
Ray’s Food Place, Hoopa Valley Tribe Issue Warring Press Releases as Grocery Leaves Hoopa Forever
…The Tribe has therefore determined that the severance of our business relationship with Ray's and C & K is in the best interests of the community due to health and safety concerns…
Stuffed Mountain Lion Stolen From a Hoopa Dump is Returned After Suspect Learns It’s Not Garbage
…Hoopa Valley Public Utilities District General Manager Julia Gulley told the Outpost that the cougar was returned after the suspect learned it wasn't garbage. "The mountain lion has been returned," Gulley…
Feds Tight-Lipped About Yesterday’s Weed Raid in the King Range
Readers pinged us yesterday about a law enforcement convoy out the Mattole Road, somewhere in the general vicinity of Honeydew and the King Range. And lo and behold, today's BOOKED shows…
Container Village Status Report: 36 Occupants, 22 Dogs; 18 Find Full-Time Employment
…GECOP wishes to share information regarding the demographics of current shelter residents with the community, as well as to highlight some of the exciting steps towards a new lifestyle taken by program…
Handcuffed Suspected Copper Wire Thief Attempts Escape; Search Reveals Credit Cards, Suspected Heroin
…It is unknown if the tools in the truck were stolen. German A vehicle arrived on scene and William German exited the vehicle. The parked truck belonged to German. German returned the…
Victims Escape Fire Before Klamath Home Burns to the Ground
…One of the victims was hospitalized for breathing difficulties. Calfire, the Klamath Fire Protection District, the Del Norte County Sheriff's Office and a Del Norte Ambulance responded to the scene. Calfire…
Here’s the New SoHum’s Most Wanted Poster
From the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office: If you have any information regarding the whereabouts of these wanted fugitives, contact the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office at 707-445-7251. You can…
The Train Dream Lives! Caltrans Gives $276k in Public Funds to Trinity County Agency for Yet Another East-West Rail Study
Image from a 2014 feasibility study on the east-west railroad by BST Associates on behalf of the Humboldt Bay Harbor, Recreation and Conservation District. PREVIOUSLY Eureka CC to Mull Great East…
Local Organizing Network Calls Supreme Court Immigration Decision ‘Temporary Setback,’ Urges Citizens to Vote This Fall
…In response, the True North Organizing Network — a local coalition associated with the national, faith-based People Improving Communities through Organizing network — issued a press release to announce that it will sponsor…
Humboldt State Football to be Featured in Nationally Televised Game for Second Time in School History
…The American Sports Network is part of the Sinclair Broadcast Group, one of the largest and most diversified television broadcast companies in the country. Including pending transactions, the company owns, operates and…
Loleta Cheese Factory to Emerge From Bankruptcy Under New Ownership; Grilled Cheese Sandwich Bar Planned
…The Outpost has discovered that the presumptive new owner of the beloved Eel River Valley institution is putting together a website that gives us an oblique peek at what he has planned…
Small Release of Black Gunk Pauses Environmental Remediation Work in Henderson Center
…the cleanup of the site itself, the replacement of the street's sewer main, and "deep groundwater" remediation. The first two phases should be wrapped up by the end of the year…
Massive Weed Op Raided on Table Bluff; Deputies Find Impressive Gun Cache in Related Storage Unit
…But they are not the owners of the property, and the Sheriff's Office just issued a corrected press release. The changes are indicated below. —HS ### From the Humboldt County Sheriff's…
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Rio Dell Council Member ‘Stunned’ by Colleagues’ Marijuana Ordinance ‘No’ Vote
Tuesday night the Rio Dell City Council voted 3-2 not to pass a marijuana land-use ordinance that had been in the works since late last year. The letter below was…
Burglar Shot in the Leg by Person He Tried to Burglarize, Rio Dell Police Say
From the Rio Dell Police Department: On June 22nd , 2016 at about 1900 hours officers responded to the area of the 300 block of 1st Avenue in Rio Dell for a report…
Huffman Blasts Republicans for Interrupting Congressional Sit-In for Vote Allowing Confederate Flags at National Cemeteries
…But at 3:10 this morning, the Republican House majority reversed that decision by approving the spending measure with the flag ban omitted. In a passionate press release, Huffman called the move…
Pony Fire Nears Containment at Almost 3,000 Acres; State Agencies Expecting Busy Wildfire Year
Bomber attacks the Pony Fire. Photo from Northern California Team 2's Facebook page. Things are starting to wrap up a little bit on the Pony Fire, which has been burning most…
100-Year-Old Former Eureka City Councilmember, Shoe Shiner Honored with Old Town Monument
…During the event, Howard quibbled ever so slightly about the monument's placement — it's a few feet to the right from where his stand stood — but all in all he was…
Keep Your Weed Biz Outta the Warm-Hearted City! Rio Dell Kills Commercial Cannabis Ordinance
Press release from the City of Rio Dell: In 1996 voters of the state of California passed Proposition 215, exempting patients and specified caregivers from criminal laws related to medical marijuana. The…
Rep. Jared Huffman Among Democrats Staging Gun Control Sit-In on House Floor
…They're protesting the House leadership's refusal to bring gun control legislation to a vote in the wake of the Orlando massacre. Here's Huffman's statement on the subject, from…
Eureka Man Arrested in Cooper Gulch After Early Morning Myrtletown Burglary
…The witness provided a description of the subjects and said they were last seen on foot near the cemetery on Myrtle. Officers checked the area and located a male matching the description…
Supes Move Forward With Reduced Weed Tax Measure, Aggressive Panhandling Ordinance
The Humboldt County Board of Supervisors today decided to move forward with placing an excise tax on marijuana cultivation on the November ballot, but not before cutting the proposed fees by 25…
Four Masked Men Home-Invade Elderly Fairhaven Couple, Steal Their Medications and Harmonica at Gunpoint
From the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office: On Saturday, June 18, 2016, at about 4:30 a.m. Humboldt County Deputy Sheriffs responded to the 2500 block of Park Street in Fairhaven…
OBITUARY: Mary Joyce Colegrove Traversie, 1940-2016
…It was in the bay that she met and married her husband Terry with whom she would spend the next several years traveling the greater western states. Marge loved to travel and…
OBITUARY: Marlene Dunn, 1945-2016
Wilma Marlene Collum Dunn Marlene Dunn was welcomed into the arms of Jesus on June 9, 2016 at the age of 70. She was born Aug. 3, 1945 in Downey, Calif. to…
County Supervisors to Consider Putting Weed Tax on the November Ballot
File photo On Tuesday, the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors will decide whether or not to place a marijuana cultivation tax measure on the November ballot, and if so, how much tax…