The body of missing 19-year-old kayaker Nick Brunner was recovered this morning, according to a friend of the family. Jae Wood, a family friend who has been helping with search efforts, posted on the Humboldt County on Alert Facebook page about 10:50 this morning, “It is with a sad but grateful heart I can say […]
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Update: Officials Suspend Search and Rescue Operation of Missing Kayaker
Update: The U.S. Coast Guard has suspended the search and rescue operation for Nicholas Brunner who went missing while kayaking yesterday at Trinidad Harbor. “Suspending a search is not a decision we make lightly,” Capt. Mark Hiigel, Coast Guard Sector Humboldt Bay commander said in the release. “It is only after we have over-saturated every […]
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Trinidad Rancheria Asks for Pipeline Extension to Get Water Via Humboldt Bay Municipal Water District, LoCo Reports
The Lost Coast Outpost is reporting that the Trinidad Rancheria is asking for an extension to find a way to get water through the Humboldt Municipal Water District. Read the full story here.
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UPDATE: Rescue Swimmers, Helicopter, Boats Continue Search for Fallen Hiker
The search continues for hiker who fell into the water in the College Cove area near Trinidad on Thursday afternoon. According to news release, search teams from the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office, California State Parks, United States Coast Guard and CAL FIRE are using multiple boats, multiple trained rescue swimmers and a Coast Guard helicopter […]
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UPDATED: Rescue Underway Near Trinidad
At approximately 1:45 p.m., an emergency dispatcher sent Arcata Ambulance and Westhaven Fire Department to travel out the main trail off the parking lot “east of the beach” in the College Cove area near Trinidad. The dispatcher said they had received two reports of a 22-year-old male that had fallen about 15 feet “possibly into […]
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Lost Coast Outpost: The City of Trinidad and the Trinidad Rancheria Are at Odds Again Over the Water Supply for the Tribe’s Hotel Project
The Lost Coast Outpost is reporting that the city of Trinidad and the Trinidad Rancheria are clashing over the water supply for the tribe’s hotel project. According to a letter sent by the tribe, Trinidad Rancheria is requesting that the city provide the water for the hotel “or else the tribe will withhold required upgrades […]
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Trinidad Rancheria: Hotel Could Open Next Summer
If all goes as it hopes, the Trinidad Rancheria could have its hotel overlooking Trinidad Bay open in the summer of 2021, says Executive Director Jacque Hostler-Carmesin. The Rancheria’s controversial proposal to build a five-story hotel on its property off Scenic Drive south of Trinidad took a major step forward recently when the Bureau of […]
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Running Wild: Photos from the Clam Beach Run
The weather gods delivered a calm, dry Saturday morning for around 700 participants in the 55th annual Trinidad to Clam Beach Run Honoring Ford Hess. The race and fun run featured 5 3/4-mile and 8 3/4-mile options starting north of Trinidad — the “fun” for the longer races includes a wet crossing of Little River […]
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North Coast Night Lights: Looking for a Monocerotid Unicorn
The other week I was finally made aware of the existence of an elusive annual celestial phenomenon nicknamed the Unicorn meteor shower, or Alpha Monocerotids. So dubbed in part no doubt for its mercurial habits, the name is also eponymous for the constellation Monoceros, the Unicorn, from which the meteors appear to radiate. The constellation […]
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North Coast Night Lights: Lost in Space (Big Dipper over Trinidad)
The planet hung silently in space. A tiny jewel in the blackness, it was a half-lit marble of greens and browns and blues and whites. But it was more than a planet, it was a life-bearing droplet, a little oasis of life journeying in infinite patience in its timeless passage around the sun. Soft moonlight […]
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Coastal Commission: If Trinidad Rancheria Can Find Water, it Can Build its Hotel
The California Coastal Commission went against the recommendation of its staff Thursday and gave the Trinidad Rancheria the go-ahead — or a “conditional concurrence” — to build a five-story hotel on its property off Scenic Drive south of the city. This means that the Coastal Commission, which is tasked by law with protecting the California […]
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UPDATED: Kayakers Reportedly Find Dead Body Near Trinidad
UPDATE: The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office issued a press release this evening stating that the deceased person found by kayakers near College Cove this morning appears to have been a white male in his 60s. See the full press release copied below our original post. PREVIOUSLY: A group of kayakers located a dead body near […]