The Humboldt Harbor, Recreation and Conservation District board will meet Thursday to discuss approving a lease with RTI Infrastructure to provide a landing for up to four fiber-optic cables, including one touted as the world’s longest. The latter, a project by Trans-Pacific Networks, will link Southeast Asia to the United States, with landfall slated for […]
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UPDATE: World’s Longest Fiber-Optic Cable May be Looking to Land in Humboldt
UPDATE: The Humboldt Bay Harbor, Recreation and Conservation District board announced there were no reportable actions from its Thursday night closed session, including the possible lease of a property to two companies related to a cable landing. PREVIOUS: The Humboldt Bay Harbor, Recreation and Conservation District board is scheduled to meet in closed session Thursday […]
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Harbor District Declares State of Emergency
The Humboldt Bay Harbor, Recreation and Conservation District voted unanimously at a special meeting yesterday to declare a state of emergency due to increased sedimentation in the channel into Humboldt Bay that is causing dangerous conditions and imperiling the county’s fuel supply. The vote came after the district received the results of depth testing by […]
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Neighbors Want in on Marijuana Zone, Threaten to Sue Arcata
Under the threat of multiple lawsuits, the Arcata City Council decided last night to table its discussion of a Medical Marijuana Innovation Zone. The council had previously brought forward an ordinance adopting the zoning change for the former Humboldt Flakeboard Mill on West End Road (“Area A”), which would allow medical marijuana cultivation, processing, manufacturing […]
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Arcata’s Medical Marijuana Innovation Area Gets a Go-ahead
The Arcata City Council played to a packed house last night as the public weighed in on a proposal for a Medical Marijuana Innovation Area. The council ultimately voted unanimously in favor of the proposal, but not before an antsy, standing-room-only crowd stood by while the council burned through two hours wading through the night’s […]