By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com After a steep decline from this summer, the number of COVID-19 cases in Lincoln County leveled off in November and now health officials worry that holiday […]
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A very wet November helps push Yachats-area yearly rainfall totals closer to average
One of the wettest Novembers in 16 years is pushing Yachats-area rainfall amounts closer to average for the calendar year. But December will have to be a very wet month […]
Lincoln County Oregon Building Permits – November 2021
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Canadian energy company abandons its controversial plan for Jordan Cove natural gas terminal in Coos County
ANDREW SELSKY/The Associated Press SALEM — A Canadian energy company called it quits Wednesday on a controversial natural gas pipeline and marine export terminal on the southern Oregon coast after failing […]
Oregon Congressman Peter DeFazio will retire next year, creating an open seat in newly formed district that now includes Lincoln County
By DIRK VANDERHART/Oregon Public Broadcasting Oregon Congressman Peter DeFazio is retiring. After more than three decades as a mainstay in Oregon politics, the state’s longest-tenured U.S. House member announced Wednesday […]
Oregon State Police believe they have solved mystery of girl found dead in Lincoln County, arrest mother Tuesday in Michigan
By NOELLE CROMBIE/The Oregonian/OregonLive The mother of a young girl whose remains were found a year ago along a muddy riverbank at […]
480 health care providers in Oregon, including Samaritan Health Services, getting $120 million in covid relief money
By LYNNE TERRY/Oregon Capital Chronicle The Biden administration has started to distribute $7.5 billion in American Rescue Plan funds to more than 40,000 health care providers in each state and in […]
As Oregon crabbers pull their pots this week, prices at the dock should reach more than $4.75 per pound
By DANA TIMS/YachatsNews.com With Oregon’s Dungeness crab season officially opening Wednesday, a number of factors are lining up to push prices to record early-season highs. Last year’s relatively low-yield […]
Oregon plans to offer voluntary digital vaccine card in the spring
By LYNNE TERRY/Oregon Capital Chronicle The Oregon Health Authority plans to offer a digital vaccine card to Oregonians next spring. It is not a passport: The technology is designed as […]
Oregon’s new congressional map is now final, as GOP officials don’t appeal boundaries
By DIRK VANDERHART/Oregon Public Broadcasting Oregon’s bruising fight over new political maps is now over. Winner: Democrats. A group of former Republican elected officials challenging new congressional districts has elected […]