By DANA TIMS/YachatsNews.com Shuttered restaurants. Closed gift shops and visitors’ centers. Hotel, motel and other lodging reservations cancelled by the hundreds, all over fears of a coronavirus pandemic. Welcome to […]
JAKE THOMAS/Oregon Capital Bureau Health care providers in Oregon are running out of protective masks, surgical gowns and other personal protective equipment that protects them from contracting the coronavirus. “I […]
By JAKE THOMAS/Oregon Capital Bureau The Oregon Association of Hospitals and Health Systems has called on Gov. Kate Brown to issue a shelter-in-place order requiring most businesses to close and […]
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Samaritan Pacific Communities Hospital in Newport is using a plan developed for a giant offshore earthquake to guide preparation for what it expects to be a […]
Yachats Community Presbyterian Church gave out $1,000 Friday to laid-off hospitality workers, the first day of its growing effort to help those in need. Earlier in the week the church […]
Lincoln County School District administrators and staffers are scrambling to adjust to the state-ordered six-week shutdown of all schools – including how to figure out credits for graduating seniors […]
By JAKE THOMAS/Oregon Capital Bureau As the coronavirus outbreak continues to disrupt daily life across Oregon, legislators had their first discussion Wednesday on the Legislature’s possible response to the pandemic. […]
By SAM STITES/Oregon Capital Bureau A team of Oregon’s top government and business leaders are looking at every state program and agency to confront the economic erosion created by the […]
By DICK HUGHES/The Oregon Capital Bureau Oregon is erecting a 250-bed temporary hospital in Salem so as to free up other hospital beds around the state for coronavirus patients. […]
By the Oregon Capital Bureau and YachatsNews.com Oregon’s schools now are closed for six weeks. Gov. Kate Brown announced the extended school closure late Tuesday, hours after talking with reporters […]
