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Marijuana Nonprofit Offers Advice to Growers Worried About a Visit From the Law

…Make sure that the materials in the farm folder are copies and store the originals away from the farm where they are safe. 1. Small domestic water use permit from the water…

(PHOTOS) #Arcata24hr: Be Ready For Your Closeup All Day Today, Arcata

2:15 a.m.: "Game Over" | Photos Leon Villagomez Regardless of how you define the term, most Humboldters would agree that Arcata is our region’s most colorful population cluster — from the…

Eureka Continues Sweeps on Homeless Living Behind Bayshore Mall, Citing ‘Mounds of Trash’

File photo from the EPD’s March 17 Devil’s Playground raid. Andrew Goff. Press release from the City of Eureka: The City of Eureka will be enforcing the “No Camping” ordinance…

LoCO SPORTS: Arcata Little League All-Stars Headed to NorCal Championship Tournament

…The 10- and 11-year-olds pictured above are headed to Petaluma for the NorCal State Little League Championship Tournament after a thrilling 13-11 victory over Chico last night in the…

City of Rio Dell a Little Peeved About Having to Clean Up Someone’s Illegally Discarded Cannabis Farming Materials

…The dump site was located just off Monument Road and much of the material was thrown down steep Poison‐Oak covered embankments causing a hazard for work crews. Nearly a half‐ton…

Six Teenage Boys, Ages 13-16, Arrested For Felony Vandalism For Eureka School Window Smashing

…The vandalism to the school windows occurred on 06-25-2015 and 06-28-2015. The damage to the school windows is estimated at approximately $5,000 dollars. The (6) six juvenile…

BOLO: Suspected Burglar’s Fingerprints Connect Him to Willow Creek Break-Ins, Says Sheriff’s Office

…The suspect took an undisclosed amount of cash from inside of the office. The Sheriff's Deputy dusted the office area for any possible latent fingerprints associated with the suspect. Several latent…

OBITUARY: Brian Smith, 1957-2015

…He also leaves behind many uncles and cousins in the Smith Families of Rohnerville, The Oliveira family, The Mark Windsor family, The Neilsen /Alto families, and the Freshwater families he grew up…

Suspect in Mad River Homicide Identified

…The suspect of the shooting that occurred in Mad River on Monday, July 13, 2015 has been identified as: Scott Henry Dimartino, DOB: 07/15/1986, 5’11”, 160 lbs., Brown Hair…

(UPDATE) Over 10,000 Marijuana Plants Eradicated by Law Enforcement in Weitchpec This Week

…Officers parked their vehicles and walked the rest of the distance to the search warrant location. These cases are currently still under investigation and the eradication efforts are continuing through at least…

Your Week in Ocean: Warm-Blooded Fish, Steel-Nerved Fishermen

…Or, if you're the fishing type, you can keep a sharp eye out for opah off the Humboldt Coast. As usual, Kenny Priest has the scoop in his weekly Fishing the…

Multi-Agency ‘Operation Yurok’ Goes After Marijuana Grows Described as Largest Ever in Tribe’s Territory

…They used some of the logs to build a two-story shanty and the rest of the timber to construct giant barricades around the property. The industrial-scale grows resemble mountaintop coal…

Girth First? Local Man May Have Just Found the World’s Fattest Redwood

…The square footage of the ground footprint is 860 square feet (also a record for redwoods). The horizontal axis of 43.3' is a record for all trees. An exciting find indeed…

(AUDIO) Eureka Police Looking For Man on Bike After Armed Cemetery Robbery

…According to scanner traffic, the suspect brandished a knife and stole an undisclosed amount of cash from the victim before taking off on his bike north toward Marie Callender's. He is…

(VIDEO) Your Latest Drone Evidence That Humboldt is as Beautiful From the Air as From the Ground

Someday in the none too distant future, LoCO imagines, humans will be issued a 1,000,000 megapixel video drone at birth with which to document all angles of earth. That'll…

Your Week in Ocean: ‘One of the Most Influential Surfers in the World’ – on KHUM

…Given that this is the last Coastal Currents co-hosted by Dronkers, the moment should be especially sweet. Dronkers started the show – also Humboldt County's first podcast – eight years ago, in…

Everything is Fine at ACV This Morning

…In other Tuesday non-emergency news, Emily Jacobs, program director with the Humboldt County Aviation Division, tells us she will be setting off the fire alarm at ACV this morning as part…

Humboldt Live Sessions: Patchy Sanders

Let Devil's Playground be your concert hall in the latest edition of Humboldt Live Sessions. This time out, local videographer Chuck Johnson captured Ashland folk orchestra Patchy Sanders as they bounced…

Reports of a Homicide Near Mad River and a Shooter on the Run

…Upon further investigation, the Deputy at the scene discovered that the vehicle was involved in the active shooter incident in the Mad River area. At that time the Deputy at scene heard…

Sleepy SoHum Burglar Arrested in Redway, Figured a Classroom Was a Good Place to Sleep in the Summer

…Also present was the teacher who initially reported the burglary on 07-10-15. The teacher was able to positively identify Wilks as the same person that she observed sleeping in her…

Inmate Suffers Severe Trauma After Alleged Leaping Suicide Attempt

…When Cook fell on the floor he received severe trauma to his body with the initial impact with the floor. Two Correctional Deputies assigned to work inside the housing unit saw Cook…

(VIDEO) Live-Stream the General Plan Update Meeting in Redway

Thanks to Access Humboldt for the stream. UPDATE: Third District Supervisor Mark Lovelace multitasks, posting this to Facebook during the meeting! // Our Board of Supervisors is holding a special meeting at the…

Major Marijuana Eradication Efforts by Law Enforcement in Weitchpec Today

…Wayne Hanson with the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office told The Outpost when we called seeking confirmation. Hanson said that search warrants were being served at several parcels in the Weitchpec area…

Faulty Extension Cord Sparks Early Morning House Fire

…The occupants of the residence had been awoken by the fire and were forced to use a ladder to exit from the second story. All occupants were safely outside when fire units…

Burglary Suspect Found Sleeping in Redway Elementary Classroom

…The man was also in possession of various food items that were stored inside the classroom. The teacher yelled out to the man and told him to leave. When asked by the…

Parked Car Rear-Ended on 5th and Broadway

…According to bystanders, The Jeep turned onto Fifth Street and rear ended the Volvo parked outside Roy's Auto Center. The accident briefly blocked the right-hand lane, but did not affect…

Humboldt Dunst Watch 2015: Shanty Edition

…Saturday night, triumphant Humboldt Roller Derby athletes gathered for post-bout revelry at The Shanty in Old Town. But the HRD herd were not the only stars to step into the ping…

DEAD RECKONING: Shine On, You Waxy Earplug

If I skew the timeline just a bit, a decade on the front end and as much taking up the rear, this latest medical intervention explains much that would otherwise remain a…

GROWING OLD UNGRACEFULLY: As a General Rule of Thumb…

…Rather than say, as we’ve all been taught in the land of the free and personal responsibility, “I’m sorry, I screwed up,” you say instead, “Se me hizo tarde,” “It…

LETTER FROM PARIS: Le Vie de Routine (and Hemingway’s Ghosts)

…the Louvre, with the golden pyramid and its fountains, lay to the right, and over the shoulder on the left, stood the Eiffel in the distance, and you suddenly realized you were…


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