336: Big YouTuber, Fieri tequila heist, national mystery, police dog attack settlement, holiday tree battle, more

Humboldt Last Week

YouTuber Peter Santenello's new travel video about Humboldt has over a million views, trucks carrying $1M of Guy Fieri’s tequila were hijacked in Texas, a missing Hawaii woman was possibly headed to the redwoods, cops say a homeless man died while attempting to steal copper wire at an abandoned power plant, Eureka officials supported a funding effort by the county to rebuild our psychiatric hospital, Humboldt County laughs in the face of weather, Humboldt’s small cannabis farmers continue to struggle after years of broken promises, a bone discovered in the Eel River belonged to a man who vanished in 2017, Pacific Seafood has moved its processing from Eureka to Oregon, a statewide effort to rename places is changing the title of a bridge in Fieldbrook, an innocent guy from McKinleyville won a settlement after being attacked by a police dog elsewhere, Cal Poly Humboldt has been named one of The Princeton Review’s Green Colleges for 2025, the Sequoia Park Zoo — not Ferndale — is now set to host the tallest living decorated tree, event suggestions, and more.

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