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Three Big Takeaways From This Year’s Measure Z Funding Requests
The countywide half-percent sales tax ushered in with Measure Z has been in effect for close to a year now, and it generated nearly $9 million for the 2015-2016 fiscal…
Get on The Vagabus! Hippiesque ‘Voluntourists’ Extend Humboldt Stay, Grow Ranks (PHOTOS)
…The good news is, should the Vagabus ever conquer the world with goodness, we all have access to the blueprint for how they did it — its DNA is sprinkled around the Internet…
Local Video of Seals Being Swept Away by High Surf Goes Viral
…Seventeen to Twenty-foot breakers did hit the Humboldt coast yesterday. However, the photographer of the video told the Outpost that it was filmed last spring. Robert Wick, who works as a…
Search for Juvenile Runaway Leads to Eureka Motel Meth Arrest
…Deputies responded to the motel, confirmed the person of interest had rented a room there. Deputies then responded to check for the runaway juvenile at the room. Deputies knocked on the room…
Missing Myrtletown Toddler Located Last Night After Brief, Intensive Search
A large, multiagency search for a missing toddler in the Myrtletown area last night ended with a sigh of relief, after the girl was located by Sheriff's Office deputies inside her…
One Dead, Two More Injured After Accidents on Highway 101 This Morning
…The BMW briefly drifted over the center dividing section before over-correcting to the right, sending the BMW into an ascending embankment to the west of US-101. Upon impact with the…
Expect Jogging Delays: Redwood Bowl Track Reduced to Three Lanes for Foreseeable Future as Repairs are Made
…The university will then receive bids from competing businesses to complete the project. The design work should begin before the end of the Spring 2016 semester. But due to the lengthy design…
Eureka Police Investigating Possible ‘Shots Fired’ Incident in BevMo Parking Lot
The Eureka Police Department is currently investigating a report of shots fired at a car in or near the BevMo parking lot. Police were called to the scene at around 3:30…
Owl Remember You: It’s Time to Say Goodbye to Humboldt’s Beloved Great Gray Owl
…A screenshot of the eBird map showing how rare reported great gray owl sightings are in the Pacific Northwest. A park official at the Prairie Creek Redwood visitor center told the Outpost…
Citing Ongoing Threats to Property, the Environment and Human Life, Farmer Closes Vehicular Access to Ferndale River Bar
…Last November, the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors held a discussion about the project, and the board received a number of letters in favor of the county clamping down on the River…
WHERE ARE LLAMAS?
…In short, a new-to-Humboldt woman would like to take her daughter to see llamas for the kid's birthday. Where can that happen? Now, when LoCO was growing up, there…
Person Climbs Through Window to Grant Deputies Access to Eureka Home Containing Two Wanted Felons
…Deputies responded to the residence and no one answered the door. Deputies left the residence but remained in the area to watch for activity. Shortly thereafter, a subject who also lived at…
Traffic Backed Up on Southbound 101 Due to Eureka Slough Bridge Maintenance
…Highway 101 South, due to maintenance on the Eureka Slough Bridge. Caltrans has reduced the southbound end of the Eureka-Arcata safety corridor to one lane, causing brief delays. According to the…
OBITUARY: Anna Francis Wilson, 1962-2016
…The family would like to stay a special thank you to Bob Foulton, for always being there for Anna as a big brother throughout the years! Stephan and Jessica Lee would also…
OBITUARY: Doris ‘Dori’ Lynn Langdon, 1953-2016
…She was a file clerk and medical record clerk at several of the local hospitals. A caregiver for the elderly, seamstress, mechanic, gardener, babysitter, a friend to many and so much more…
Victim in Last Week’s Fortuna Stabbing on the Mend; ‘Not a Random Attack,’ Police Say
…Two Fortuna Police investigators have travelled to the victim’s location and have conducted interviews with the victim. The investigation is ongoing. The Fortuna Police Department is confident that this was not…
Vandals Break Into Dow’s Prairie School, Write Naughty Words on Walls, Are Later Busted
…The juveniles were later identified and the investigating deputy sheriff contacted the juvenile’s parents and notified them about the criminal investigation. The school administration and the parents of the juveniles will…
Eureka Says Goodbye to its Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected Military Vehicle
The EPD's MRAP rolled into town in the fall of 2013, and will presumably roll out the same way. File photo. PREVIOUSLY: Meet the EPD’s New ‘All Wheel Drive Ballistic…
OBITUARY: Lia Angelica Amador, 1966-2015
…In third grade Lia beat the whole school from kindergarten thru 8th grade in the whole school races. Lia beat the whole school. She was nine years old. She was most like…
Former Plaza Hot Dog Vendor Sentenced to Federal Prison on Money Laundering Charges
On Friday, the Oregon branch of the U.S. Attorney's Office announced that a former Humboldt County resident had been sentenced to two years in federal prison for laundering over $2…
HCSO: Humboldt Sheriff’s K-9 Unit ‘Benny’ Sniffs Out Much Weed … And You Can Meet Him!
…The deputy and K-9 Benny walked around the vehicle and K-9 Benny alerted the deputy of a controlled substance in the vehicle. The deputy searched the vehicle and located a…
Let’s Check Out These Architectural Designs for Eureka’s Future Waterfront
Image from the City of Eureka's flier for its upcoming design meeting. Last April, the City of Eureka launched a new effort (the latest of several over the last few decades…
Two Spend Night in Snow-Stuck Vehicle on Fish Lake Road; Sheriff’s Deputies Give ‘Em a Lift to Hoopa
…The other two people stayed in the vehicle to stay warm. While driving to the location of the vehicle, the deputy came across a male and a female sitting on the roadside…
OBITUARY: Charles Ollivier, 1936-2016
…Bernard’s Church (6th & H Street, Eureka), and the family and friends may attend the burial/internment at 10 a.m. on Wednesday at the Greenwood Cemetery (1757 J Street, Arcata. ### The…
‘This American Life’ Features Story on the Lawlessness of the Ferndale River Bar
This week's This American Life opens with a story about the legendary lawlessness of the River Bar — that stretch of the Eel River Banks between round about Fernbridge and Fortuna. Or…
HSU Grad Student Responds to President Rossbacher’s Faculty Strike Email
…This fundamentally misconstrues the nature of the disruption. The disruption is the administration. It is a disruption that the administration has cultivated growing numbers of overworked and underpaid lecturers, while decreasing positions…
Useful Maps to Help You Find Humboldt’s Hottest Owl Celebs (New Owl Photos/Video)
So you're a fan of the great gray and snowy owls currently roosting in Humboldt County, and you'd like to go check them out in person, but you're not…
DEAD RECKONING: Advent of the Eggs
Valentine’s Day is over, the foil wrappers are still stuck to the bedsheets, and a heart-shaped imprint remains tattooed on your ass cheek, a hollow spot where love once resided…
GROWING OLD UNGRACEFULLY: Sucker Bets
…We don’t play for the 1 in 25 “double your money” itty-bitty payouts, of course, we’re in it for the big time, the millions and the billions. Last Jan…
Humboldt League of Women Voters to Hold First Ever ‘Community Participation Fair’
…It is celebrated around Freedom of Information Day, on March 16, the birth date of the 4th U.S. President James Madison who held a major part in the ratification of the…