THIRD UPDATE: Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office reports the suspect has been located on Dows Prairie Road. Walter Wayne Wright, 35, was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. Find the full HCSO release at the end of the story. SECOND UPDATE: The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office states a call came in at 10 a.m. reporting a […]
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Trinidad Rancheria Hotel Project Gets Conditional OK, Off Ramp Moving Forward
The California Coastal Commission went against the recommendation of its staff Aug. 8 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 […]
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CHP: Pedestrian Death Near Westhaven Being Investigated
A pedestrian injured in an apparent hit and run on northbound U.S. Highway 101 near Sixth Avenue in Westhaven died this morning after being taken to St. Joseph Hospital. The man, whose name and age have not been released pending notification of next of kin, was found by a passing motorist just after 5:30 a.m. […]
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Updated: Victim in Fatal Crash Near Westhaven ID’d
The California Highway Patrol reports that intoxication was a factor in last night’s traffic death of 25-year old Glen A. Roe Jr. The Orick man was in the passenger seat of a 2010 Chevrolet Silverado traveling northbound on U.S. Highway 101 just past Westhaven when the driver, Victor Herrera, of McKinleyville, “failed to negotiate” a […]
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Supes Set to Discuss Vacation Rental Ordinance
The Humboldt County Board of Supervisors is about to plunge into the increasingly fraught issue of vacation rentals, a topic that has Trinidad and communities large and small across California, and the nation, tied up in knots (and, in many cases, lawsuits). The Supes will consider a petition on whether and how to regulate vacation […]
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PlanCo Shelves No Confidence Vote, Denies Westhaven Cell Tower
The Humboldt County Planning Commission backed away from a proposed no-confidence vote in planning staff Thursday night, and instead unanimously approved forming an adhoc committee aimed at improving staff-commission relations. Specifically, the committee will see two yet-to-be-named commissioners meet with interim Planning Director Robert Wall and County Counsel Jeffrey Blanck in order to clarify procedures […]