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DOES THIS SUCK? Humboldt County Library Offers Free Digital Magazines for All
Today the Lost Coast Outpost is pleased to launch the Internet's newest feature: Does This Suck? This will be where the Outpost takes a very close look at some new service…
Two Arrested After Counterfeit Operation, Heroin, Meth, Stolen Vehicle Discovered in Fortuna, Says Sheriff
…It was determined the license plates on the vehicle were stolen and did not belong to the vehicle. Deputies contacted the occupants of the residence, 38 year old Dale Baldridge, and 26…
Legislature Repeals March 1 Deadline for Local Weed Regs, Two Days After County Passed Local Weed Regs
Less than 48 hours after the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors passed a rushed ordinance to regulate commercial cultivation of medical marijuana locally, the California state legislature agreed to delete the March…
(VIDEO) Masked, Armed Men Go On Gas Station Robbery Spree
…Supsect #1 brandished a small silver semi-automatic handgun at the victims and demanded money from the cash drawer. The second suspect grabbed cartons of cigarettes from behind the register. After the…
Highway 96 Rock Slide Delaying Traffic
…If you're headed that way, you could be looking at delays in the half hour range while intrepid Caltrans crews figure this thing out.
EPD Arrests Suspect Wanted for Evading Authorities, Possessing Stolen Revolver and Seven Pounds of Weed
…Hiller was arrested and booked at the Humboldt County Correctional Facility for warrants relating to these previous events. The stolen revolver recovered during the November search. PREVIOUSLY: Seven Pounds of Weed, Revolver…
CHP Releases Statement on Today’s Benbow Crash Investigation, Rescue Operation
PREVIOUSLY Car in the River Closes Benbow Drive ### From the California Highway Patrol, SoHum Division: At an unknown date and unknown time, a tan Subaru Legacy was traveling southbound on Benbow Drive…
Parklets are HAPPENING, Eureka! (PHOTOS)
…In addition to the one in front of Ramone’s on E Street, parklets are slated for creation in front of The Siren’s Song Tavern on Second Street, the Humboldt Bay…
PROGRAMMING NOTE: Your Lost Coast Outpost is Much Zippier Than Before, But There is a Downside
Did you notice that this website got way, way faster last week? Well, it sure did! Last Wednesday, LoCO Labs launched a behind-the-scenes re-architeturization of the Outpost experience. The…
A Focused Strategy Collides With Diverse Passions at Joint Eureka-County Meeting on Homelessness
…The staff reports for both the City Council and the Board of Supervisors suggested merely receiving the report and scheduling action for a later meeting. The City Council went first, with Councilmember…
(UPDATE) Today’s Officer-Involved Shooting in Eureka Occurred at Scene of Homicide Investigation
…Investigators returned fire, striking the man. The man was placed under arrest and transported to the hospital by ambulance. The man underwent surgery and is expected to survive. The Critical Incident Response…
Sheriff’s Office Seeks Information on Man Who Went Missing in October
From the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office: On October 7, 2015, 37-year-old Lucas Dale Blake-Williams’ girlfriend called the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office to report him missing. Blake-Williams…
Supervisors Pass Commercial Medical Marijuana Land Use Ordinance Unanimously
The supervisor chambers were as packed as this reporter has ever seen them — every seat full, people lined shoulder-to-shoulder along the back wall and overflowing out the door. In short…
(UPDATING) Police Officer Shoots Man After Being Fired Upon; Investigators Still at Scene Off West Harris in Eureka
…California Department of Justice personnel have shown up to assist in the investigation at the scene. ### Investigators have dropped yellow markers at the location of the shooting. UPDATE, 1:19 p.m…
YOUR WEEK IN OCEAN: Stone Lagoon Just Re-Consumated Its Marriage to the Pacific
…What wildlife are affected by the breach and how? Powell: Wild steelhead and cutthroat trout grow inside the lagoon, and when it breaches they swim into the ocean. At the same time…
Brian Wilson Will Bring ‘Pet Sounds’ to Arcata This Coming October
…The resulting “concept album” Pet Sounds achieved great critical success helping usher in a new musical landscape and hit the Top 10 in the US when released in 1966.The tour will…
Car Shot Three Times in Fortuna; No One Injured
…This morning, a resident emerged to find three bullet holes in her car, which had been parked at the curb — one on the passenger's side of the hood, one in the…
(LIVE VIDEO) Active Shooter Reported at Southern California Naval Medical Center
…The center released the following statement: The sound of gunshots were reported in the basement of building #26 at Naval Medical Center San Diego at about 8 a.m. today. Naval Medical…
OBITUARY: William Other Gower, 1937-2015
…The stories he could tell from transporting to many of the harrowing sites of the Northern California mountain terrain would make his wife's hair stand on end (which he enjoyed very…
Sierra Pacific Announces Permanent Closure of Arcata Sawmill; More than 100 Jobs Lost
…We went on to build the Arcata mill on the Samoa Peninsula, which we’ve run steady since 1951,” he noted. About 123 crew members will be affected by the closure. According…
Supervisors Set to Pass Commercial Marijuana Ordinance Tuesday
Tuesday afternoon the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors plans to finalize the language in its Commercial Medical Marijuana Land Use Ordinance (CMMLUO), along with the environmental mitigation measures required under state law…
Eureka City Council and County Supervisors to Meet Jointly Tuesday to Discuss Homelessness Strategies
…For more than a year now the city has been working with county officials and a Sacramento consulting firm called Focus Strategies to analyze the complexities of the problem in Eureka, where…
Large-Scale Fight at the Humboldt County Jail; Several Inmates Tased; Nine Rearrested
…a large scale fight broke out in one of the Humboldt County Correctional Facility housing units. The Correctional Deputy was checking another area of the unit when the fight began. A total…
(VIDEO) This is What a Sneaker Wave Looks Like
It seems like roughly 30% of what your Lost Coast Outpost does is remind the populace that the ocean really does not care if you live or die. In that vein, today…
Welcome Back, Highway 299!
…French Creek Road — slide central after last week's heavy rains — has been cleared for the normal two-way traffic we've all grown to love. Huzzah! Thank you, Caltrans crews! Waterworks…
HARDIN: Marketing Humboldt Weed — Have We Really Thought This Through?
…On the other hand, too often around here, by the time we get to the end of the joint, all we have talked about is the weed in the joint. I do…
Another Humboldt Judge Regularly Submitted Fake Paperwork to Get Paid, State Commission Finds
For the second time in four months, a state commission charged with investigating judicial misconduct has shamed a Humboldt County Superior Court judge for regularly submitting false work records in order to…
DEAD RECKONING: Those Dog Days You Won’t Forget
…The dog owner’s habit was to let his critter off the leash when they reached the edge of the park, so that it could run hard and fast across the wide…
GROWING OLD UNGRACEFULLY: Science Not to the Rescue
Twenty-five years from now the war we undertook against al-Qaeda won't seem nearly as important as the wars we waged against physics and math. — Thomas Friedman & Michael Mandelbaum, That…
LETTER FROM ISTANBUL: Urban Refugees
The other night I re-watched “Urban Cowboy,” the 1980 John Travolta vehicle that chronicles the lives of a young couple living in Houston. By day, Travola’s “Bud” character works a…