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Eel, Mad Rivers Bust Banks After Weekend Downpour; More Rain Coming This Week
…The Eel and Mad Rivers both overflowed late last night, and the Eel River remains above flood stage as of this writing. The Van Duzen, which was also under flood warning, barely…
Here’s the Most Recent List of Roads Closed, Reopened or Generally Impacted by the Rain
Redwood Drive — still closed! Hookton Road — still closed! Old Arcata Road — open! This morning the Humboldt County Department of Public Works sent out an updated list of known trouble roads around the…
HARDIN: I Watch the Supes Make Sausage
I went to the Supes Meeting last Monday to watch them make sausage. It wasn't pretty. I applaud Steve Lazar and staff at the Planning Department for coming up with a…
Eel River at Fernbridge will Reach Flood Stage Tonight, Sheriff’s Office Says
…Impacts to Highway 36 are possible through the evening.Additional impacts to roads, including closures, slides, and washouts are possible through tomorrow, Monday, January 18. Please do not attempt to travel across…
(UPDATED) Roads Closed, Flood Warnings Issued as Rain Continues to Pummel North Coast
…We've put the flood-watch monitors at the top of our homepage and at LoCO Earth. Here's the statement from the Weather Service as it pertains to the Eel River…
It’s Wet Out There; Here’s Where to Find Sandbags
If you live in a flood-prone area, now might be the time to stock up on sandbag supplies. If you need a refresher course on how to fill and stack sandbags…
Oh Really, Humboldt? Now an Earthquake, Too?
Why not?! As if Humboldt wasn't falling apart enough today, the earth decided it needed to stretch a bit to remind us we have zero say in all of this. LoCO…
GET YOUR PORT ON: The Dog That Did Not Bark
GET YOUR PORT ON: The Dog That Did Not Bark
DEAD RECKONING: What I Want to be When I Grow Up
It’s a game of expectation and frustration, ambition and the self. Who and what are we going to be in life? Is that even something we really get to decide anymore…
GROWING OLD UNGRACEFULLY: Battling Military Metaphors
…Where's the guts and glory in simply going on a diet? The other reason to avoid all the fight talk is the moral judgments that come up when someone "loses their…
LETTER FROM ISTANBUL: Lodos, Revisited
…strong, potentially destructive winds that occur when the currents shift in the Aegean Sea. This past week the snow disappeared, and in its place the lodos came. With the return of the…
(UPDATE) Highway 299 Shut Down Near Big Bar Due to Rockslide
…The California Highway Patrol reports this will probably be a long term closure as conditions are too dangerous to send cleanup crews to the scene. The roads will be cleared when the…
Lightning, Hail Shifts to the North; Heavy Rain and Strong Winds Coming Sunday
Infographics provided by the Eureka National Weather Service. Heavy rain and gusty winds are expected to reach Humboldt County tomorrow morning. The Eureka National weather service reports that the area will receive…
YOUR WEEK IN OCEAN: Huge Pacific Swells Prompt Emergency Baja Big-Wave Surf Contest
…Todos Santos is the third and final stop on the 2015-2016 Big Wave Tour. The tour is held annually over a year-long time period, world wide, with the requirement that…
Eureka Man Sentenced to Seven Years for Killing Pedestrian in Hit-and-Run DUI
PREVIOUSLY Arcata Hit-and-Run Suspect Arrested; DUI Believed to Be a Factor ### From the District Attorney's Office: On December 17, 2015, Donald Watts pled guilty to a single count of…
(UPDATED) Chase of Suspected Stolen Jeep Results in Bayside Car Smash; Suspect Identified
…Sergeant Jesse Taylor of the Humboldt County Sheriff's office tells the Outpost that the suspect was taken into custody last night. Brian Phillip Miller, 45 of Redway, was charged with stolen…
Aww! Young Elephant Seal Spending Friday Afternoon in Trinidad (PHOTOS)
…Others told Pease that the seal had been on the beach earlier in the afternoon but some humans — reportedly a drone pilot among them — had scared it back into the water. Let…
Killer Whales Headed Our Way
A pod of killer whales is currently swimming south off the Oregon coast at a clip of roughly 60 miles per day, which means they might be visible from certain vantage points…
The Un-Bundys: Environmental Groups Plan Takeover of Federal Lands on South Spit
Students in buses head out for a field trip to the Mike Thompson Wildlife Area. File photo by Andrew Goff. While the Bundy militia continues its divinely inspired defense of pocket-sized…
Ettersburg Man Arrested for DUI After Rolling Toyota Pickup on Briceland Road
…The 30 year old male driver, Alexander Lyon of Ettersburg, CA, allowed the Toyota to leave the roadway, travel up an embankment, and roll over on to its roof, coming to rest…
It’s a High Surf Weekend, Humboldt
As we do from time to time, LoCO will again remind you that the ocean cares not if you live or die. Eureka's spoke on the always-spinning National Weather Service…
OBITUARY: Kathleen Ann Fairchild, 1956-2015
Kathleen Ann Fairchild left us on the morning of December 18th, 2015. She was 59 years old. Kathleen was a gardener, a painter, a sculptor, a mother of three, a grandmother and…
Do You Have Eyeballs? Fortuna Police Ask You to Identify This Shoplifting Suspect
…If you have information please contact the department at 707–725–7550 or our anonymous crime tip line at 1-800–78-CRIME.
Man Arrested After Dragging Collapsed Dog Through Downtown Arcata, Says APD
…The subject was seen dragging the dog across the street by its leash. The subject then picked the dog up and dropped it on the ground. The video shows the subject blowing…
Miranda Man Arrested (Twice!) for Possession of Stolen Gun, Says HCSO
…the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office responded to the 1800 block of Barnum Rd, Miranda, for the report of a subject with a gun. Deputies contacted 44 year old Hugh Henson, from…
It’s Really Windy in Humboldt Today
…Moving closer to the concrete, a few minutes ago the Big Blow prompted the above spotlight — at the corner of Henderson and H — to lie down for a long winter's nap…
County Receives Nearly $2M to Restore Fish Migration in the Salt River Coastal Watershed
Allan Renger, fish biologist with the California Department of Fish & Wildlife, explains how conservationists are using fine-mesh netting to monitor fish in the Salt River Ecosystem Restoration Project in 2014. File…
Water Main Bursts in Eureka, Leaving Gaping Hole in Buhne Street
…Reached this morning, an employee of the city's Public Works Department told the Outpost that water is off along the Buhne corridor between F and Dean Streets — nearly to the hospital…
OBITUARY: Donald Lent Boltzen, 1923-2016
…When Don retired from the county they sold the bird business and bought a motor home and traveled around the 48 states. He is survived by his wife of 42 years Anna…
Story of Crescent City Drug Suspect Allegedly Robbed by Authorities Goes Viral
A screen shot of the story trending as the number one link in the "news" subReddit. A story of a Crescent City man who was allegedly robbed by a former correctional officer…