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The Tall Ships Are Back! Here’s How and When to Visit or Sail Aboard the Lady Washington and the Hawaiian Chieftain
…The discount is applied instantly at the time of purchase. The discount is not available for telephone orders or walk-up purchases at the ships.
(UPDATING) Eureka Police Investigating Shots Fired Inside Buhne Street Home
…Braud said he doesn't believe there is any reason for the public to be concerned about the fact that the juvenile is in the wind. As of this moment, the department…
(VIDEO) Eureka Approves Container Village Homeless Shelter, Despite Outcry From Neighboring Business Owners
…Representatives from the Humboldt Coalition for Property Rights and the Betty Kwan Chinn Day Center, the groups who jointly proposed the village, believe they'll have the site up and running less…
Beware, Recreational Opioid Users! Super-Potent Drug Fentanyl Making the Rounds
…The overdose prevention drug Naloxone (Narcan) is effective in reversing the effects of fentanyl. However, it may take repeated doses of Naloxone over several hours to adequately treat fentanyl overdose, likely due…
(UPDATE) Man Hospitalized After Prius Driver Road Rage-Rams Him Near Brewery Parking Lot; Suspect Sought
…The Prius stopped a few feet from the victim’s vehicle. The victim exited his vehicle and walked toward the Prius. The driver of the Prius accelerated and ran into the victim…
About That Stat: No, the Average Humboldt Resident Does Not Take 14 Vicodin Per Day
…The numbers also include the addiction-treatment drug buprenorphine as well as the large dosages of painkillers frequently given to people in Hospice care. On the other hand, the numbers in the…
Kailan Meserve Found Guilty of 15 Felony Counts Including Rape, False Imprisonment, Assault
Humboldt County Office of the District Attorney press release: On April 19, 2016, a jury found 45-year-old Kailan Coridon Meserve guilty of 15 felony counts, including three counts of forcible…
CAREFUL, SWIMMERS! Trinity River Flows Will Be Ramped Up This Weekend, Next Week
…Well, you want to be very, very cautious over the upcoming days, because the Bureau of Reclamation is going to send a big blast of water down the river from Lewiston Dam…
(UPDATES) Vehicle Strikes Pedestrian on Eureka’s Fourth Street; Major Injuries Reported
…The accident happened in front of the Patriot Gas Station, at the intersection of Fourth and R — just at the turnoff to the Samoa Bridge. Initial reports had the person hit as…
(UPDATE) Big Police Raid Underway Outside Cutten Murphy’s Market
…The parking lot and the grocery store remain open. One agent tells us that the investigation began with the service of a search warrant on one of the vehicles in question a…
(AUDIO) Food For Thought: College of the Redwoods Students are Makin’ Babies!
College of the Redwoods students are making babies! I knew that would get your attention — The Plant Propagation class has spent the entire semester learning about all the different ways you can…
Tri Counties Bank Systems Down! But They Should Return Shortly, President Says
…The problem, Smith said, was a catastrophic power failure at the bank's datacenter in Chico this morning. When he spoke to the Outpost a few minutes ago, Smith said that the…
‘Helicopter! But Why?’ Asks Humboldt
Video courtesy Stoney Times For today's edition of LoCO Looks Up — our periodic acknowledgement of the objects terrorizing Humboldt from the heavens above — we cast our eyes toward Fieldbrook where numerous…
Sheriff’s Office Seeks Man with Camo Backpack Who Armed-Robbed Blue Lake Patriot
…The suspect followed the victim inside the gas station, where the victim handed over an undisclosed amount of cash from the register. The suspect then fled on foot toward the east. Deputies…
Human Rights Commission Calls on County Government to Somehow Stop Palco Marsh Evictions
PREVIOUSLY City, Nonprofit Proponents Miles Apart on Plans for Sanctioned Homeless Camp Away From the Marsh OP-ED: Sanctuary Camp Proponents Set the Record Straight Inside the New Plan to Move Homeless…
This Massive Whale Jaw Bone That Washed Up on Samoa Beach Makes a Perfect Hammock
…Dawn Goley, director of the Humboldt State Marine Mammal Education and Research Program, said the bone is an exciting find. “This is the lower jaw of a baleen whale!” Goley wrote the…
Careful! You May Have Accidentally Signed Up With A Loony Political Party! Plus: More Election Must-Knows
…State legislative and executive offices, and seats in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. The presidential race. The local races on the June ballot are nonpartisan. So when you go…
Police, Ambulance Respond to Reported Heroin Overdose at Palco Marsh
…The 911 caller told the police that the patient — a 40-year-old male — was in the greenbelt at the time of the call, and that locals would transport him to the…
Redway Woman Found Unconscious with Rope Around Her Neck; Deputy, Daughter Revive Her
…The deputy responded and located the 65 year old female victim lying on the floor inside the doorway of a bedroom with the rope around her neck. The deputy removed the rope…
Eureka Business and Property Owners Threaten Lawsuit Over Shipping Container Homeless Camp
A shipping container at the Mercer-Fraser lot, Third and Commercial in Eureka, site of a proposed homeless camp | Photos: Andrew Goff Just five days after local officials and activists announced a…
Man Arrested For Assaulting Father in Carlotta; Subsequent Search Finds Guns and ‘Bunker’
From the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office: On Friday, April 15, 2016 at about 12:40 p.m., Humboldt County Deputy Sheriffs responded to the 100 block of Church Ln, Carlotta, for…
Is the Marijuana-Leaf Logo Played Out?
…The Outpost is old enough to remember the heady aughts, when the Times-Standard looked for any excuse to put its particular clip-art leaf on the front page, above the fold…
MATTHEW IN THE MIDDLE: It Was a Good Week
…The week started off in the usually crappy way. I often drive around town from Target to K-Mart, feeling the embarrassment and disgust of the human excuses littering our streets. The…
YOUR WEEK IN OCEAN: Popular Uprising at the Coastal Commission Saves Free Beaches, For Now
Backs turned on the Coastal Commission. Sonoma Coast is Saved…For Now The California Coastal Commission was once again the host of a popular social gathering at their meeting in Santa Rosa…
OBITUARY: Theodore ‘Ted’ Moorehead Jr., 1928-2016
…After graduating from Eureka High in 1946 he enlisted in the United States Navy, where he proudly fought for his people in the Korean War. Ted married the love of his live…
HARDIN: The HumCPR Shipping Container Village is a Step in the Right Direction
…The more landowners and merchants express this frustration, in conversation and in public forums, the more they lose the battle for the hearts and minds of the community. It's nearly impossible…
(VIDEO) Shopkeeper and Transient Scuffle on Traffic Island in Old Town
…One of the transients picked up a frisbee belonging to the man's dog, and hurled it into the street in retaliation. The man then charged the transient in an aggressive manner…
(UPDATE) Another Record-Breaking April Day for the Humboldt Coast
…The weather service predicted that temperatures could reach the 70s today, so the record is subject to change as the day goes on. Eureka had another record-setting day on April 6…
(UPDATE) Pedestrian Struck and Killed on Southbound 101 Last Night Near Herrick Onramp
Photos of the scene provided by Alejandro Jizzan Alonso Luna. UPDATE, 2:10 p.m.: CHP press release: On April 16th, at approximately 2053 hours, Party #1 (Jon Doe) (P-1) was…
OBITUARY: Arthur Martin Watson, 1953-2016
…If you would like to make a donation in Martin’s name, we ask that you donate to the Northcoast Environmental Center (NEC) or the Environmental Protection Information Center (EPIC). ### The obituary…